A scholarly rite of passage is learning to accept the frequency of rejection in academic life. Alas, many of us fret about what to do (and not do) after being turned down by a journal. Seasoned ...

Our family of journals—The American Journal of Managed Care®, Population Health, Equity & Outcomes, and Evidence-Based Oncology™—is seeking to publish timely research and commentary. Find the right ...

Lisa Fagin Davis was starting her medieval-studies Ph.D. at Yale in 1989 when she got a part-time job at the university’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Her boss was the curator of early ...

In 1912, Polish antiquarian book dealer Wilfred Voynich purchased a collection of old books from the monastery of Villa Mondragone in Rome. Among the books, he discovered a manuscript apparently ...

Naked women in pools of green liquid, strange looking plants, and text written in an unknown alphabet; they can all be found on the delicate parchment pages of a mysterious manuscript from the 15th ...

A large portion of academics will at some point in their career send submissions of their work to academic journals, and for those on the tenure track, being successful at publishing may be the most ...

The 15th-century Voynich manuscript has puzzled scholars and confounded attempts to decipher it for centuries. Its 200-odd pages contain dozens of colorful illustrations of plants, astrological ...

It contains over 113 unidentified plant species, astrological drawings of Zodiac symbols, images of what appear to be pregnant women wading in fluids, and sketches of over 100 species of medicinal ...