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By jdupuis on December 19, 2012.
  • A Note to You, Should You Be Thinking of Asking Me to Write For You For Free
  • A Little More Re: Writing For Free
  • The Web We Lost
  • Librarian Entrepreneurs
  • The flipped academic: turning higher education on its head
  • The Wrong War Over eBooks: Publishers Vs. Libraries
  • Altmetrics and Librarians: How Changes in Scholarly Communication will affect our Profession
  • PLoS ONE: from the Public Library of Sloppiness? (are additional paper charges for copy-editing, etc, worth it?)
  • Synthesizing Science and the Liberal Arts and From Classroom to Career
  • The Library as a Free Enterprise
  • Size Isn't Everything: For academe's future, think mash-ups not MOOC's
  • Creating a Course: "Understanding by Design"
  • The first MOOC was a book
  • Writer or Spambot? (on not spamming your network on twitter)
  • How I used Kickstarter to reboot a book series, and my career (and maybe my life?)
  • 21st-century Scholarship and Wikipedia
  • “The Heart of Research is Sick” A senior scientist speaks out on real lives and lies in the ‘broken’ research system. Peter Lawrence explains how current research is in crisis and why young scientists are suffering.
  • SciComm Matters Because … the Future Depends On It
  • Confessions of a (former) gatekeeper
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