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By jdupuis on June 2, 2012.
  • Open access will bankrupt us, publishers’ report claims
  • What data can and cannot do
  • I Point To TED Talks and I Point to Kim Kardashian. That Is All.
  • Why Library and eBooks Issues Matter
  • Sports Subsidies and Library Spending
  • Improving Research Skills
  • RUK: The Maturing Threat of Open Access
  • Letter from Books of Wonder to DOJ about ebooks lawsuit
  • Let's Not Call It "Computer Science" If We Really Mean "Computer Programming"
  • Reaching Out: Why are scientists trapped in the ivory tower and what can be done to escape?
  • What the Forbes model of contributed content means for journalism
  • Open Access: Money and Data talk and say the same thing?
  • Why I became an open scientist…
  • On boundaries (defining what it means to be a librarian)
  • Occupy Journals
  • Open, free access to academic research? This will be a seismic shift
  • Can You Put that in the Form of a Question?
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