You can pretty regularly find advertisements for essay contests and scholarly competitions (such as science or engineering competitions) which offer cash prizes for the top performers.
In May, Bertelsmann agreed to sell the division for $1.2 billion to two investment firms that plan to merge BertelsmannSpringer with Kluwer Academic Publishing, and some librarians have opposed the deal as a threat to competition among scholarly publishers.
George Plimpton, the New York aristocrat and literary journalist whose career was a happy lifelong competition between scholarly pursuits and madcap attempts -- chronicled in self-deprecating prose -- to try his hand at glamorous jobs for which he was invariably unsuited, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan.
And now Open Media has some competition: the Prickly Paradigm Press, a scholarly pamphlet series begun by a pair of British anthropologists in 1993 as the Prickly Pear Press and recently revived by the American anthropologist Marshall Sahlins.
The competition will seek to foster "scholarly research on the Arab-Muslim world", Dempsey said in a statement.
Now, government officials want to reduce the in-house promotions in an effort to increase academic competition and spread around the scholarly talent.
Could the "increasing movement of women into what had previously been almost exclusively 'men's jobs' [have] led some men to cite their own work more as a way of enhancing their scholarly reputation in the face of growing competition from women" the authors ask.
In the most recent year of the competition, this adjustment to the University of Utah's scholarly activity requirement has close to doubled the number of medical student participants (Table 2).
The New York Times reports that Amazon, facing reduced competition from other booksellers, has been cutting discounts on scholarly and small-press books.
Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver, who tracks abuse in scholarly publishing, has so far identified 88 journals that are facing competition from fake imitators on different websites.
