US News and World Report will no longer consider admissions yield in their process to rank colleges. (Yield is the number of accepted students who actually enroll in the college.) Yield accounted for 2% of their ranking formula, so it was a relatively small piece. What I find particularly interesting about this [...]
HarperCollins Publishers, Pearson Education, Princeton University Press, Sage Publications, and John Wiley & Sons are suing Collegiate Copies of Bloomington, Indiana, for not securing copyright permission before making course packs. The Copyright Clearance Center is coordinating the lawsuit.
In related news, the Copyright Clearance Center just settled a similar lawsuit in Florida.
I guess Collegiate Copies [...]
One of my readers brought this article about Google’s cache to my attention. The article explores many of the issues surrounding the search engine’s copies of Web pages it allows users to view. One of the issues I hadn’t considered before is how errors and inaccuracies in news reporting might be perpetuated by [...]