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By jdupuis on October 26, 2010.
  • Slice and Scan
  • After Launching Search and Discovery, Who Is Mission Control?
  • The smart scholar's publication-venue heuristics; or, how to use open access to advance your career
  • Piracy trumps obscurity again
  • Open to All: Preserving Library Values in a Digital World
  • Proposing a Taxonomy of Social Reading
  • How Should Peer Review Evolve?
  • Why Peer Review Matters
  • Mutations of citations: Just like genetic information, citations can accumulate heritable mutations
  • Bookstores: dead or alive?
  • Over It Yet? Privacy, That Is
  • An Amazon Digital Book Rental Plan?
  • In a Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks
  • Should Students buy an iPad or a Year's Supply of Pot Noodles?
  • Grace: A Manifesto for a New Educational Object-Oriented Programming Language
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