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Around the Web: Even Harvard can't afford everything, The importance of physical campuses, DRM strategy and more

By jdupuis on April 25, 2012.

• Harvard Faculty Advisory Council Memorandum on Journal Pricing: Major Periodical Subscriptions Cannot Be Sustained
• "No, we can't"
• A proposal for the library of the future
• Harvard: we have a problem
• Harvard Library: subscriptions too costly, faculty should go open access
• Could Harvard Library's "untenable situation" regarding journal costs help move scholars toward open access?
• Saying Costly Subscriptions 'Cannot Be Sustained,' Harvard Library Committee Urges Open Access
• Harvard's library can't afford journal subscriptions
• Harvard Library to faculty: we're going broke unless you go open access
• Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices
• A 'Place' for Higher Education (importance of physical campuses)
• Thinking Through a Strategy for Digital Rights Management
• Publishing's Amazon Powered Future
• Own It: Social Media Isn't Just Something Other People Do
• Library use and buying behavior in Douglas County
• New Open Access Working Group Formed: Formulating Response to Elsevier's Policy Change (from MIT)
• Canadian Universities Have One Week To Stop A Disastrous Copyright Licensing Deal
• Conference social skills
• Is the 'net generation' a myth?
• Is the Internet making us more lonely or less lonely? Yes.
• Debate at N.Y. Public Library Raises Question: Can Off-Site Storage Work for Researchers? (NYPL reorg & renovation)
• "Why I break DRM on e-books": A publishing exec speaks out

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