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By jdupuis on November 19, 2012.
  • New LJ Report Closely Examines What Makes Academic Library Patrons Tick
  • Nate Silver and the Ascendance of Expertise
  • Stables and Volatiles (balancing personalities in project groups)
  • Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, and the Value of Our Values
  • Facebook wants to organise our relationships. What's not to like?
  • PeerJ: An Open-Access Experiment
  • Engaging the Public, Citizen Science and Imperialism
  • Social Media Companies Have Absolutely No Idea How to Handle the Gaza Conflict
  • As Libraries Go Digital, Sharing of Data Is at Odds With Tradition of Privacy
  • Why Tablets?
  • Why Are Physics Classes Full of Old Stuff?
  • "ScienceBlogs Is a High School Clique, Nature Network Is a Private Club": Imagining the Communities of Online Science
  • Seeing sexism in academia - moving up the ranks opens the eyes
  • Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Disruption?
  • Using Twitter for Curated Academic Content
  • Academics and SEO
  • University ouster policies largely mixed (UVa commentary)
  • Chris Anderson: "3D Printing Will Be Bigger Than The Web"
  • Establishment Opens Door for MOOCs
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