A bit of institutional self-interest motivates campus leaders when they work to spend money with businesses owned by minorities, women, veterans and other underrepresented groups. In fact, the institution's own bottom line comes into play, says D.M. Hodnett, director of the University of Missouri System's Supplier Diversity and Small Business Development Program. "If we can't […]

Like library administrators across the country, David Lewis of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis is used to making hard choices. This year, he saved $200,000 by canceling dozens of subscriptions to scholarly science journals. In exchange, he began offering researchers on-request access to articles within hours, replacing the instant access they were accustomed to. He also […]

American higher education is admired around the world, with its research universities leading the way in creating the breakthroughs that will lead to yet unimaginable futures, liberal arts colleges and state universities educating tomorrow's leaders, and its community colleges providing retraining for middle aged displaced workers. However, across the full spectrum of higher education institutions […]

Five years ago, a researcher in Kazakhstan frustrated at the inaccessibility and cost of so many scholarly journals launched Sci-Hub, a website that today provides quick, free access to 47 million articles, often by illegally bypassing paywalls. A recent article in Science found that in a single six-month period, Sci-Hub received requests for a staggering […]