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Summer reading reflections from a group of scholars, Followup on Rice U Press etc…

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Pollution-Sensing lung tumor from Daisy Ginsberg’s project Synthetic Kingdom VIA Reflections on summer reading from The Immanent Frame by The Editors As the start of the fall semester inches closer, we?ve invited a handful of our contributors to reflect on what they?ve read over the summer.  We asked: What are the best books and essays … Read more

Rice University ends an experiment of all-digital model of scholarly publishing

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Abandoning an Experiment Rice University Press is being shut down next month, ending an experiment in an all-digital model of scholarly publishing. While university officials said that they needed to make a difficult economic decision to end the operation, they acted against the recommendations of an outside review team that had urged Rice to bolster … Read more