I’ve worked on enough academic website projects to know how little I know about creating websites. Having worked on a new or redesigned academic website is not the same as having web expertise. There ...

Prospective students -- teens and older students alike -- are repeat visitors to the “academic program” pages on higher ed websites. A lot of research supports how important these sites are throughout ...

Every academic department and program has a website in Brandeis' standard university web templates. These web templates are responsive (meaning they are mobile friendly) and accessible (meaning they ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. A new study out earlier this month suggests that the world’s largest ...

Libraries and librarians have an important stake in the development of online scholarship. Many benefits will come from the growth of digital monographs and journals as well as the development of ...

Colleges and schools may choose from the academic, administrative, or alternative designs for their websites; however, if using either of the latter two, the site must adhere to the guidelines ...

Would researchers scrawl notes, critiques and comments across online research papers if software made the annotation easy for them? Dan Whaley, founder of the non-profit organization Hypothes.is, ...

A department chairman from a nearby university recently solicited my advice on how to handle a tenure case in which the candidate’s entire body of scholarship consisted of online publications. The ...

A new study finds that websites provided by academic institutions offer the most reliable pediatric health information, and commercial-sponsored websites, the least. Most parents frequently rely on ...

In academe, the game of how to win friends and influence people is serious business. Administrators and grant makers want proof that a researcher’s work has life beyond the library or the lab. But the ...

After multiple deferrals and revisions, the UC Board of Regents approved Item J2, which would restrict academic departments’ political statements on its websites, during its Wednesday meeting. First ...