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By jdupuis on February 5, 2012.
  • College students will stick to paper books
  • Open Access Collection (PLoS)
  • A Vision for the Future of Scholarly Publishing
  • How to Become A Social Media Influencer: Ten Small Steps
  • The Declining Value of Subscription-based Abstracting and Indexing Services in the New Knowledge Dissemination Era
  • Scholars Seek Better Ways to Track Impact Online
  • Attempt to replicate "arsenic life" experiment fails
  • A Most Optimistic Unconference: Publishers, Libraries, and Independent Bookstores at Digital Book World 2012
  • Publishing's Ecosystem on the Brink: The Backstory
  • Saint Zuck
  • Is uncivil behaviour hijacking your classroom?
  • Join the digital humanities...or else
  • The Pros and Cons of Ebooks
  • I'm Not Buying It: The Importance of Privacy for Research
  • 9 Academic Freedoms Of Not Having Tenure
  • Peer-Driven Learning: Collaboration versus Groupthink
  • One takeaway from Digital Book World that is not to be missed
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