APLU In The News
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Indiana Ag Connection
Task Force Wants Antibiotic Resistance Top on Agenda
A national task force report on the growing problem of antibiotic resistance in animal agriculture highlights the need to make finding solutions a top public health priority, said Willie Reed, dean of the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine.
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Inside Higher Ed
More Support for ‘Lingua’ Editors
More library and higher education groups on Thursday threw their support behind the editors of the linguistics journalLingua, upping the pressure on publisher Elsevier.
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The Wall Street Journal
Public Higher Education and Voluntary Transparency
The “higher-education lobby” isn’t a singular force opposed to improved data, increased transparency and greater oversight. Public colleges and universities, which educate nearly three-quarters of all students, have been fierce advocates of lifting the legal ban that blocks the federal government from providing comprehensive aggregate data on student outcomes. We want more transparency of higher-education…
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Inside Higher Ed
Leveraging ‘Lingua’
The editors and editorial board members of the linguistics journal Lingua have stoked antipublisher sentiment with their highly publicized protest against Elsevier. But judging by past revolts, turning their popularity into editorial success for their new journal, Glossa, could be a challenge. Open-access advocates, meanwhile, see the conflict as an opportunity to further their cause.
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San Diego Newscape
Task force wants antibiotic resistance solutions at top of public health agenda
A national task force report on the growing problem of antibiotic resistance in animal agriculture spotlights the need to make finding solutions a top public health priority, said Willie Reed, dean of the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine.
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The Baltimore Sun
Culture of innovation takes root at Morgan
When I became president at Morgan State University over five years ago, I indicated that one of our goals should be to produce the next wave of leaders who are innovators in America, given Morgan’s impressive statewide and national standing in not only engineering and science-based disciplines but also in the fine and performing arts,…
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American Libraries
Elsevier and Open Access Journals
As reported in Inside Higher Education, there is evidence of fed-up academics taking a harder line against increasing journal prices: “All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of Lingua, one of the top journals in linguistics, last week resigned to protest Elsevier’s policies on pricing and its refusal to convert the journal to…
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Feedstuffs
APLU/AAVMC unveils antibiotic resistance report
The Association of Public & Land-grant Universities (APLU)/Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) Task Force on Antibiotic Resistance in Production Agriculture recently unveiled a report that outlines a comprehensive national strategy for diminishing the role antibiotics used in food animal production systems play in the broader antimicrobial resistance (AMR) problem.
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Chronicle of Higher Education
What a Mass Exodus at a Linguistics Journal Means for Scholarly Publishing
It was the kind of exit designed to make a statement. Last week all six editors and all 31 editorial-board members resigned from Lingua, a prominent linguistics journal, after a disagreement with the journal’s publisher, Elsevier. The announcement re-energized concerns about the relationship between academics and for-profit companies, and the future of scholarly publishing.
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Inside Higher Ed
Public Universities Back Protest of Elsevier Pricing
Peter McPherson, president of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, issued a statement Monday expressing strong support for the move of the six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, to resign to protest Elsevier pricing. The protest has attracted considerable attention among advocates for open-access publishing (in which…
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