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By jdupuis on February 7, 2012.
  • The End of Academic Library Circulation?
  • Print on the Margins: Circulation Trends in Major Research Libraries
  • Teens join Twitter to escape parents on Facebook: survey
  • Teens slowly migrating to Twitter
  • Academic E-Books: Innovation and Transition
  • Is Facebook Really a Good Business?
  • Who Does Google Think You Are? A tool tells users what the company infers about your interests and age
  • Social Media and Privacy
  • The (Not So) Inevitable Future of Digital Textbooks
  • Social Anxiety (ups and downs of post-pub online peer review)
  • 5 Foundational Principles for Course Design
  • The nine golden rules of Twitter
  • Troubled halls: The tensions of modern education
  • Students and digital literacy
  • Peer-Driven Learning: Blogging vs the Term Paper
  • Commodifying the Academic Self (gaming citation counts)
  • How Journals Put Us Behind the Times
  • 5 Ways to Tackle the "M-word" (marketing)
  • Journals Inflate Their Prestige by Coercing Authors to Cite Them
  • Can't tweet or won't tweet? What are the reasons behind low adoption of web 2.0 tools by researchers?
  • Are office hours obsolete?
  • The Future of Peer Review
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