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By jdupuis on February 14, 2012.
  • Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'
  • Reading and Believing
  • Who really benefits from putting high-tech gadgets in classrooms?
  • "if libraries did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them"
  • Academia as Music Industry
  • Wolfram Alpha Pro democratizes data analysis: an in-depth look at the $4.99 a month service
  • Physical Sciences Case studies: information use and discovery
  • New Media Consortia - Horizon Report - Ten Top Trends in Education
  • Why Pay for Intro Textbooks?
  • The Future of Taxpayer-Funded Research: Who Will Control Access to the Results?
  • Tim Berners-Lee Takes the Stand to Keep the Web Free
  • Social media sites about OA
  • Teaching the ineffable
  • We will measure our loss
  • ALA, Authors Guild, 3M Weigh In on Penguin-OverDrive Dispute
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