Word: academicization
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In a complex settlement agreement, which took three years to hammer out and spans 135 pages excluding attachments, Google will be allowed to show up to 20% of the books' text online at no charge to Web surfers. But the part of the settlement that deals with so-called orphan...
The library community recalls with horror the pricing fiasco that occurred when industry consolidation left academic journals largely in the hands of five publishing companies. The firms hiked subscription prices 227% over a 14-year period, between 1986 and 2002, forcing cash-strapped libraries to drop many subscriptions, according to...
After more than 30 years at the University, Vautin had initially accepted Harvard's early retirement package this spring, according to Harvard Magazine, but the University press release states that he now plans to retire sometime during the next academic year. Faust praised Vautin's "exceptional effectiveness and dedication" in...
Sotomayor, in her speech, takes a very different view from Ginsburg's and O'Connor's. She sympathizes with "difference feminists" and then says she is not sure she agrees with O'Connor's reputed statement that "a wise old man and a wise old woman reach the same conclusion...
A key factor in changing the equation appears to have been Ahmadinejad's character assassinations of leading political figures and, especially, his insinuation that Mousavi's wife, Professor Zahra Rahnavard, had improperly gained her academic job. "That may have been the turning point," said former Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi...