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By jdupuis on November 26, 2011.
  • The scandal of publisher-forbidden textmining: The vision denied
  • Textmining: NaCTeM and Elsevier team up; I am worried
  • The Trouble With Bright Kids
  • Yeah, but who pays?
  • If I were Dean of Graduate Studies: Rethinking the PhD
  • Our audience awaits
  • Is librarianship in crisis and should we be talking about it?
  • The humanities in the culture of research
  • An Open Letter to MLA Executive Director Rosemary Feal
  • 9 Reasons Publishers Should Stop Acting Like Libraries Are The Enemy and Start Thanking Them
  • The future in one word: platforms
  • The Productivity Perplex
  • NSSE, Peer-Driven Learning, and Getting Your Money's Worth
  • How might we get to a new model of mathematical publishing?
  • It's Not About Libraries, It's About Amazon
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