- Persistent myths about open access scientific publishing
- Prepping Grad Students for Jobs
- Rewarding Teaching Innovation
- Ask a Stupid Question: Why is there so much anonymity when it comes to the practices of academic discourse?
- Elite Universities' Online Play
- Electronic Textbooks: Why the Rush?
- Peer review and plagiarism
- Redesigning the Reference course and Crowdsourcing a library-school syllabus
- Contract hacking and community organizing and Provocative proposal to force scholarly publishers to respect open-access wishes of their unpaid contributors
- Why you should stop using social reader apps
- Think Like A Startup: a white paper to inspire library entrepreneurialism
- Beyond the Bullet Points: Libraries are Obsolete
- It's the incentive structure, people! Why science reform must come from the granting agencies.
- Too Much to Read
- Supremely Confusing: Kirtsaeng v. Wiley (imported textbooks & first sale doctrine)
- Open Access (books, ebooks, kindles, etc, from an academic's perspective)
- Conventional Wisdom Is Killing Us (on liberal arts colleges)
- Pacing Themselves (self-paced online courses)
- Post-Publication Peer Review: What Value Do Usage-Based Metrics Offer?
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