Following up on LLB’s post, Won’t Publish, Won’t Referee, Won’t Do Editorial Work: Professors boycotting Elsevier STM journals because of the Company’s business practices, see also The Chronicle’s recent article. It reports on Elsevier’s response to the boycott and interviews…
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Won’t Publish, Won’t Referee, Won’t Do Editorial Work: Professors boycotting Elsevier STM journals because of the Company’s business practices
On Jan. 21, 2012, Timothy Gowers, Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Research Professor, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University, [web profile; Wikipedia entry] called for boycotting Elsevier because of the Company’s business practices with respect to its…
Won’t Publish, Won’t Referee, Won’t Do Editorial Work: Professors boycotting Elsevier STM journals because of the Company’s business practices
On Jan. 21, 2012, Timothy Gowers, Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Research Professor, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University, [web profile; Wikipedia entry] called for boycotting Elsevier because of the Company’s business practices with respect to its…
Cooley Dean Says Job Prospects For Law Graduates Are Strong
Nelson Miller, dean of Thomas M. Cooley Law School’s Grand Rapids campus penned an editorial published in The Careerist last week. He paints a rosy picture of the legal jobs market using Bureau of Labor Statistics data. He cites 1,040,000…
Hardly a Strong Call for Reforming the Legal Academy from the New York Times Editorial Staff
See Legal Education Reform (Nov. 25, 2011 editorial). [JH]
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a TR Tax & Accounting Catalog on the Same Day as an Advance Renewal Invoice for a WG&L Print Title
I should add luckily both appeared before my wondering eyes on the same day … that would be yesterday. While any regular reader of LLB knows that I am less than delighted with the editorial quality and pricing of many…
"Trusted Legal Resources:" A Recognized Brand Will Not Retain Its Strength by Continued Dilution of Editorial Quality
At MIT last year, my favorite global publishing CEO, Tom Glocer, explained to MIT students that a “strong brand” is a signal for quality content (video below). Hardly a new idea. I don’t know any law librarians who don’t check…