Catégorie: Publication
Dueling Titles
By Lucy Ferriss . Hundreds of readers opened their New York Times Book Review recently to see a review of a novel that had already been reviewed in April ... no, wait. That earlier book was Life After Life by the terrific British novelist Kate Atkinson. This book is Life...
The Informalisation of Education
Revista de Universidad y Sociedad del Conocimiento (RUSC), Vol. 10, n° 1, janvier-juillet 2013
In the first number of Volume 10, the
Research Articles section contains six articles on various themes
connected with RUSC's thematic areas. And in the Dossier there is an
...
Meaningful, hand-picked content curation at its best
By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Angie Popova
is an astonishing individual. I honestly do not know how she manages to
build one of the most inspiring, cross-disciplined, politically aware,
literary content outputs ... out there. Since I discovered BrainPickings ,
I must admit I was...
Preventing young people’s involvement in drug dealing - The value of mutual learning in groups of professionals
By Pierre Roche. Preventing young people’s involvement in drug dealing - The value of mutual learning in groups of professionals. Training and Employment, n° 104, 2013, 4 p. Download the publication .
There are now many groups involved in professional practice analysis; they...
New publications from the Institute of International Education
ACA’s associate member, the Institute of
International Education (IIE), a private non-profit leader in the
international exchange of people and ideas, has recently been active in
publishing new research.
The latest report, entitled “Rebuilding Higher Education in...
Professions intermédiaires - Points communs ou identité par défaut?
Les professions intermédiaires se caractérisent par une grande hétérogénéité: les niveaux de formation qui les composent en sont un premier exemple. Ainsi, alors qu’elles correspondent théoriquement aux diplômes de niveau III...
Je publie, quels sont mes droits?
Le mémo « Je publie, quels sont mes droits ? » est la concrétisation
d'une recommandation du Comité d'Orientation et Suivi (COS) de l'Observatoire des métiers et de l'emploi scientifique (OMES) suite à l'étude sur les pratiques en...
Sham journals scam authors
Con artists are stealing the identities of real journals to cheat scientists out of publishing fees. Scientific publishing, meet cybercrime. Two reputable European science journals have fallen prey to identity theft by criminals who have created counterfeit journal websites. These online...
How Many Hands Are Required?
By Anne Curzan . I have had an inkling for a while now that as a copy editor, I have been enforcing a rule that might not be justified. This post is part confession, part apology to all the authors whose prose I have changed without good cause, and part contemplation on prescriptivism....
A Matter of Perspective — Elsevier Acquires Mendeley... or, Mendeley Sells Itself to Elsevier
By Kent Anderson . Confirming earlier speculation , Elsevier has acquired the reference management site Mendeley. Terms were not disclosed, but TechCrunch has estimated the deal to be worth between $69 million and $100 million in total .
That’s approximately $30-45 per user....
Nature's publishers to launch open-access platform for data sets
By Paul Jump . In a further sign of the growing scientific prominence of data sets, Nature Publishing Group has launched a new open-access platform that will peer review and publish detailed descriptions of their contents. Scientific Data will publish “data...
IAU Horizons, vol. 18.3 and 19.1
IAU Horizons, vol. 18.3 and 19.1 – just released!
IAU Horizons, vol. 18.3 & 19.1 has been sent out and is now available online. The In Focus section includes an overview report of the IAU 14th General Conference that took place last November at the Inter American...
Free Access to Higher Education Policy
From 1-30 April, Palgrave Macmillan is offering FREE online access to all its journals, including Higher Education Policy .
If you have not had a chance to sample the journal, we hope you will
take advantage of this promotion - which includes content from its full
25-year...
New book in Higher Education series
New book in Higher Education series
Reimagining Democratic Societies: a New Era of Personal and Social Responsibility has just been published as volume 18 in the Council of Europe Higher Education Series .
Edited by Sjur Bergan (Council of Europe), Ira Harkavy (International...
Mobile Learning Applications in Higher Education
CALL FOR PAPERS (VOL 11, NO 1, JANUARY 2014)
Call for articles open for the next monographic Dossier on Mobile Learning Applications in Higher Education.
For many educators, mobile technology in the field of teaching and learning has recently become one of the most important areas of...
With New Leader, Digital Public Library of America Prepares for Its Debut
By Jennifer Howard . The long-planned Digital Public Library of America is set to make its public debut on schedule next month, with a two-day series of events, to be held April 18-19 at the Boston Public Library, and a new, high-profile leader at the helm. The DPLA announced...
Free-Textbook Company Rewrites Its Content Following Publishers’ Lawsuit
By Jake New . A free-textbook company that was sued last year by three major textbook publishers has now rewritten the content it was accused of stealing.
Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education filed a joint complaint in March 2012 against the company, known as...
World Higher Education Database (WHED) 2013
Just released - World Higher Education Database (WHED) 2013
The Association is pleased to announce that the WHED 2013 CD-ROM
has just been released. With information on over 17,000
university-level institutions as well as information on the education
systems of over 180...
Tendencias Universidad. Nº 1. En pos de la educación activa. 2013
LLORENS, Faraón (coord.). Tendencias Universidad. Nº 1. En pos de la educación activa. 2013. Madrid: Cátedra UNESCO de Gestión y Política Universitaria
This report is the first issue of a new series of publications by the UNESCO Chair in Higher...
How Cengage Learning Views the Changing Higher Ed Landscape
By Joshua Kim . The world of educational publishing is completely fascinating. What
other industry faces more pressure to change in this world of
print-to-digital than textbook publishers? How will the leadership of
the large education publishing companies pull off this...

