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By jdupuis on March 20, 2012.
  • Why we need blue-sky research
  • Internet con men ravage publishing
  • Why I Pirate - An Open Letter To Content Creators
  • Open Access Tenure: Put it in the File
  • Bletchley Park tweet saves Alan Turing computing papers
  • The little guys stand up to Amazon: Book distributor IPG fights for say in e-book pricing
  • Are books and the internet about to merge?
  • Reflective Teaching for Librarians
  • Comments -- The Weakest Part of Blogs, the Weakest Part of Online Journals
  • Censorship is inseparable from surveillance
  • Libraries as Community Publishers: How to Turn the Tables
  • Fighting HEARSE: Higher Ed Apocalpyse Reading SyndromE
  • Thinking more about ebooks and libraries and what big publishers should do
  • An Ode to Librarians
  • Am I a librarian?
  • The Trouble With Books
  • Publications for Money: What Creates the Market for Paid Academic Journals?
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