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By jdupuis on March 13, 2013.
  • Why I Ignore Gurus, Sherpas, Ninjas, Mavens, and Other Sages
  • Open Access and the Author-Pays Problem: Assuring Access for Readers and Authors in a Global Community of Scholars
  • Tenure-Track Science Faculty and the 'Open Access Citation Effect'
  • Academic Libraries as Data Quality Hubs
  • Writing for Exposure: What Publishers Should Promise When They Aren’t Paying
  • Why We Miss the First Sale Doctrine in Digital Libraries
  • Publishers are reshaping themselves
  • Teaching in a straitjacket (ie. a MOOC)
  • Book publishers blast Amazon's plan to control domain names
  • Unintended Consequences of Journal Ranking
  • Massive On-Line Open Course (MOOC)-Based Higher Education Is A Class-Warfare Scam
  • Measuring the MOOC Dropout Rate
  • Free Textbook Company Shelves Clones
  • MOOCs R Us
  • From Wikipedia to our libraries
  • Institutional repositories have work to do if they’re going to solve the access problem
  • TEDx has second thoughts about Rupert Sheldrake’s talk, asks viewers to weigh in
  • Library Publishing Coalition—A Milestone in Evolution of Scholarly Publishing
  • Libraries band together to take over scholarly publishing
  • An Ad Hominem Attack Against Thomas Friedman
  • Friedman Certifies the MOOC!
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