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Every year, the journal portal: Libraries and the Academy and the Johns Hopkins University Press choose an article for the Johns Hopkins University Press Award. This honors the best article in the previous volume of the journal. Kevin Smith, Director of Scholarly Communications for the Perkins Library at Duke University, won the award in 2011 for his article “Copyright Renewal for Libraries: Seven Steps Toward a User-Friendly Law,” which appeared in Volume 10, Number 1 in January 2010. Smith joins us to discuss the award and his research.

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The Emmy-award winning comedy 30 Rock had its sixth-season premiere last week. The fast-paced sitcom has developed a loyal following, but the most recent issue of the journal Philosophy and Literature features an article looking at the root of the show’s comedy. Josh Gillon from Sienna College authored “Why 30 Rock is Not Funny (It’s Metafunny)” and joins us to discuss his examination of the show.

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The journal Late Imperial China recently released a new issue, the first one published since the unveiling of a new website for the Society for Qing Studies, the scholarly organization affiliated with the journal. Editors Tobie Meyer-Fong and Janet Theiss join us to talk about the society and the journal.

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With Occupy Wall Street and similar movements still active across the country, the editors of the online journal Theory & Event have brought together a group of scholars to discuss the resistance and solidarity movements against global capitalism over the past months. A special supplement for Issue 14.4 of the journal will focus on the Occupy movement, which the editors say has spread “an open sense of possibility.” The Johns Hopkins University Press, publisher of the journal, will make this supplement available to the public for a 3-month period via Project MUSE. Editors Jodi Dean and Davide Panagia join us to discuss the special issue.

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In July 2011, Tarek Masoud published " The Road to (and from) Liberation Square" in the Journal of Democracy. Journal Managing Editor Brent Kallmer talks with Masoud about his article as well further developments in Egypt which have taken place in the past few months.

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On June 1, 2011, the State of California began transitioning approximately 380,000 seniors and people with disabilities from a fee-for-service system to a managed care Medicaid system in 16 counties as part of an effort to reduce Medicaid spending. A team of researchers from the Health Research for Action, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, have completed a study assessing differences in beneficiaries' perceived quality of care in the two systems.  The study will be published in the November 2011 (Volume 22, Number 4) issue of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, but the journal and authors made an edited version of the article available because of the timeliness of the topic. Lead author Carrie Graham joins us to talk about the article. 

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Colleges and universities across the country rely on surveys of student engagement (SSE) to get a better understanding of their students’ involvement, integration and engagement. The Fall 2011 issue of The Review of Higher Education features a collection of issues which cast a critical eye on SSE tools. The five essays raise questions about the design and psychometrics of the SSE instruments and offer thoughtful suggestions to improve the project, especially the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). Guest editor Michael A. Olivas from the University of Houston Law Center joins us to talk about the special issue.

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The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) will celebrate 25 years serving its members at its annual conference in Chicago from Aug. 11-14. ATHE publishes its journals Theatre Journal and Theatre Topics through JHUP. Association President Steve Peters talks about the upcoming conference and the association’s history and importance to the theatre community and beyond.

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The journal Spiritus, the official publication of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality, recently published an issue focused on European spirituality. Guest editor Philip Sheldrake, a Senior Research Fellow at Westcott House in the Cambridge Theological Federation, wrote in his introduction that the issue would expand its horizons “beyond its predominantly North American base and to acknowledge an increasingly global readership.”

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