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By jdupuis on June 6, 2012.
  • Real cost of the smartphone revolution
  • The rise of libre open access
  • 25,000 signatures and still rolling: Implications of the White House petition
  • Technology Review Goes Digital First
  • Journalism: The best of times, and the worst of times
  • Publishers' Fallback Position (GSU decision)
  • What Does It Take to Evaluate Teaching?
  • 2012 top ten trends in academic libraries: A review of the trends and issues affecting academic libraries in higher education
  • Value of Academic Libraries Summit White Paper
  • Andrew Keen: 'Social media is killing our species'
  • Tor Books Announces E-book Store: Doctorow, Scalzi & Stross Talk DRM-Free
  • The young are different
  • E-Publishing May Be Doing Everything Right, But We Can’t Ignore The Spectre Of Piracy
  • With a Little Help: Publishing’s Virtue: On the whole, book publishers are a decent lot.
  • We’re creating a culture of distraction
  • A success, and a long road ahead (Whitehouse petition)
  • Scientific Publishing - Investing in our Future
  • Who Takes MOOCs?
  • The Publishers Association releases report detailing the potential effect of making journals free after a six month embargo
  • Added Value: I do not think those words mean what you think they mean
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