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By jdupuis on March 6, 2012.
  • Engineers Crashing Our Gates
  • From Credibility to Information Quality
  • Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality
  • How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy
  • Most Smartphone Apps are Spyware
  • Work for Hire? and Work for Hire update
  • Letter from the trenches (science PhD embraces HS teaching career possibililty)
  • The Bookstore in the Library
  • Web 2.0 -- at Your Own Pace
  • How to Counter Amazon: Create a One World E-Book Alliance
  • Analyst: Publishers Seeing Steady Print Declines Should Ready for Steep Drop
  • Half-Time Jobs, Full-Time Scientists
  • How the e-book landscape is becoming a walled garden
  • Random House Not So Random with Library Ebook Price Increases
  • What do the scientists think about the impact factor?
  • Pew study shows the democratization of the smartphone
  • Edging toward the fully licensed world
  • A paradigm shift: Changing approaches in the classroom
  • will we see a post-campus america?
  • Second Thoughts (Springer's creationist book mistake)
  • Me or We (independence among university students)
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