According to an article published by the Ottawa Citizen on Jan. 5, the University of Ottawa, along with many other Canadian post-secondary institutions, have been publishing in predatory journals. The news comes to light as one of the largest fake publishing groups, OMICS International of India, has an
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Death looms above Charlie (Anthony Adu), a morbidly obese man who teaches online writing courses in “The Whale” by Samuel D. Hunter. Charlie's days are spent slogging through the mediocre and unmotivated writing of the ungrateful students he instructs from his laptop. As a teacher he desperately
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As standards for quality traffic multiply, smaller publishers need to invest in more technology to monitor and pass inspections. For example, IAB's Display Trading Council members – Adform, Index Exchange, IAS, PubMatic, and Rubicon Project have come together to create ads.txt, a file that publishers
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Programmatic has become the norm when it comes to media buying, but that doesn't mean it's without its flaws. But the hot technologies of blockchain and artificial intelligence could fix the issues. For IBM, that's the goal. “One thing we've been thinking a lot about is how blockchain is going to affect
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The Creative Writing Program hosted Sandra Lim for the program's first reading of 2018 on Jan. 11. Lim is the author of her most recent collection called “The Wilderness” (W.W. Norton, 2014) which was selected by Louise Glück for the 2013 Barnard Women Poets Prize. She earned a BA at Stanford
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