Death of Reading Greatly Exaggerated?
01/16/2008
Reading, Not So Dead After All, from The Chronicle of Higher Education, gives a snapshot of the blog battles surrounding the NEA’s "To Read or Not to Read" report.
Category: Academic Life
The Journal of Medical Toxicology is now on PubMed
12/12/2007
As of this morning, all articles since the inception of The Journal of Medical Toxicology, from Vol. 1.1 December 2005 to the latest issue, are now indexed on PubMed, the… READ MORE
Academic Blogging Point/Counter Point
11/02/2007
A recent ACRLog post provides handy links to two recent Inside Higher Ed pieces on the pros and cons of academic blogging.
A View from Our ASA Booth
10/18/2007
Chris Hu from the acquisitions department describes life around and beyond the Penn Press exhibitor booth. Notes from the ASA Meeting in Philadelphia The 2007 Annual Meeting of the American… READ MORE
Shamelessly Disorderly Reading
If your leisure reading habits have been a bit haphazard lately, you are in good company. In a recent essay for Common-place, Matthew P. Brown shamelessly admits to grazing magazines… READ MORE
Hartford Courant Commentary on The University & Urban Revival
10/17/2007
Can urban colleges and universities find revitalization lessons in our neighborhood, West Philly? A professor and administrator at St. Joseph College in West Hartford, CT thinks so. In "Town And… READ MORE
Remembering Historian and Innovator Roy Rosenzweig
10/15/2007
The staff of the University of Pennsylvania Press is saddened by the news of the death of Roy Rosenzweig, historian, head of the Center for History and New Media, and… READ MORE
Resolution of Appreciation for Martin Meyerson
09/20/2007
The Penn Press Board of Trustees unanimously approved the following resolution of appreciation for the work of Martin Meyerson, University of Pennsylvania President Emeritus, who died earlier this year at… READ MORE
Columnist Praises Rodin for Community Engagement
07/31/2007
"The message to all universities is clear: Your time for leadership has arrived; being a constructive, good neighbor isn’t fluff — it’s absolutely critical," writes syndicated columnist Neal Peirce in… READ MORE
ALA’s “Best of the Best” on C-SPAN’s BookTV
07/27/2007
The American Library Association’s "The Best of the Best of the University Presses: Books You Should Know About" presentation, which took place on June 24th at the annual ALA conference… READ MORE
