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By jdupuis on March 26, 2011.
  • The Tim Hortons School of Probability
  • Innovation & Longevity in Digital Publishing: Surfing the S-Curve
  • Creating a Degree for 10K
  • Mock Rebecca Black All You Want, She's Laughing To The Bank
  • 7 reasons people don't use twitter, and why 'It's a conversation' is the answer to all of them
  • Why Women Rule The Internet
  • Why don't journalists link to primary sources?
  • A return to "bursty work"
  • Results: What (if anything) prevents women from accepting conference invitations?
  • A very brief history of Scholarly HTML
  • Is It Time to Rebuild & Retool Public Libraries and Make "TechShops"?
  • To each reader, their research / Pour chaque lecteur, sa recherche
  • Determining User Needs for an Academic Health Sciences Library Renovation
  • Google Scholar & You
  • Comparing Online Programs
  • Is It Time to Rebuild & Retool Public Libraries and Make "TechShops"?
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