A partnership between the Next Einstein Forum (NEF), an initiative of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), and Elsevier, will see the creation of a pan-African, peer-reviewed, open access publishing journal, dedicated to boosting the global reach and impact of research by Africans.
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For years, academic libraries have struggled to keep up with the rising costs of journal subscriptions set by a few large, international publishers. The situation “is now getting to a point of crisis,” according to the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, which recently published a briefing paper, with
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UWM professor Brenda Cárdenas served as Milwaukee's Poet Laureate in 2010-2012 and has used her creative writing to focus on Latino/a literatures and cultures and to spotlight issues of migration. In addition to her work as a faculty member in the Creative Writing Program at UW-Milwaukee,
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CONWAY, Ark. (March 27, 2018) — Peyton Coffman '19, an English-Creative Writing major, has received an honorable mention for her short story “Bird of New York” in the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Intro Journals Project. She was recognized by award-winning AWP member David
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With the announcement of a localized “Today In” Hub for town hall-type content, as well as this new commitment to local news across the globe, local publishers have reason to be somewhat bullish on Facebook. This update also includes help for those local publishers with multiple locations. Facebook
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I was in college, and I took an English comp class, which was a required class, and the professor had us keep a journal. She said that it was part of the requirement of the class just to write in your journal a couple of times a week, and then once a week she would put everyone in a circle and would say,
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I realize that in one way or another I have been writing about my father and his story ever since I took a creative writing class at Ohio State 20 years ago. The part of this book that is really directly based on my life is the storyline with Owen's father. My father was a chemical technician at Procter & Gamble
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Nate's Coffee and La Petite Délicat had originally agreed to a five-year shared lease on the property, where Nate's Coffee maintained a portion of the space to sell its locally roasted coffee products, however the lease has been terminated after less than a year at the request of La Petite Délicat.
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SAN FRANCISCO — When native advertising rose to prominence in 2011, many onlookers believed that, to match the unique publishing environment in which they were delivered, native ads could not scale to the kind of efficiencies demanded by modern ad-tech. But many a native ad vendor has
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Judith Curr, formerly president and publisher of Simon & Schuster's Atria Publishing Group, is joining HarperCollins on 2nd April as president and publisher of HarperOne, Amistad, and Rayo. In her new role she will be based in New York, reporting to Brian Murray, president and c.e.o. HarperCollins
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THE CENTRAL STATISTICS Office will publish crime figures for the first time in more than a year tomorrow. The office stopped publishing the stats due to concerns over the accuracy of information provided by the gardaí. The publication of crime stats has been halted on a number of occasions following
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