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By jdupuis on September 25, 2012.
  • Competing with “Free,” Part One and Part Two
  • (Re)Defining the Library, Part 1: Why?, Part 2: How?
  • Smoking Gun on Sexism? (scientists are biased against women)
  • What Libraries Should Be: A Values Proposition
  • The matter of credit
  • Report on the International Workshop on Contribution and Scholarly Attribution
  • Please Stop The Social
  • An Introvert's Thoughts on Being A Professional Speaker and Consultant
  • Introverts and the ‘new groupthink’
  • Not So Fast on 'Open Access' (Historians having second thoughts?)
  • Rethinking What “Academic” Means
  • The disappearing web: Information decay is eating away our history
  • Journalistic deficit disorder: What newspapers don’t say matters as much as what they do
  • The Shared Services Disaster ("At research universities in California, New York, Michigan, Georgia, Iowa, Texas and beyond, consulting firms have found a new foothold for restructuring academic labor along corporate lines.")
  • How Do We Measure What Really Counts In The Classroom?
  • Paying for an A (paying people to do online courses for you)
  • University Press Realities
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