The increase in popularity of online scholarly journals has given rise to new open-access publishing models, including the gold open-access…
How to determine author order when collaborating with multiple authors
When multiple authors collaborate to write a journal article, the task of determining authorship order inevitably arises. In some situations,…
Featured Member Al Trujillo – Cutting edge: Using QR codes in a textbook
Al Trujillo is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of Earth Sciences at Palomar College in San Marcos, California. He has worked with his co-author, Hal Thurman, on Essentials of Oceanography (Trujillo and Thurman, Pearson Education) since the 6th edition, and they have also co-authored Introductory Oceanography, which is now in its 10th edition.
Here Trujillo discusses the value and functionality of embedding QR code technology into textbooks:
Authors groups lose fight against Google Book Search
New York Federal Judge Denny Chin ruled November 14 that Google’s Book Search project meets the definition of fair use…
Authors groups lose fight against Google Book Search
New York Federal Judge Denny Chin ruled November 14 that Google’s Book Search project meets the definition of fair use…
6 Tips for a productive summer break
Summer vacation can be a great time for academic writers to get ahead on their writing projects, but all too often professors and graduate students find themselves scrambling to get something—anything—finished as summer comes to a close, and wondering how the summer slipped away from them.