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By jdupuis on December 20, 2012.
  • Amazon Needs Some Catalogers
  • Is the scientific literature self-correcting?
  • Publishing: It’s a Cabal
  • What is Open Notebook Science?
  • Embedded Academic Librarianship: A Review of the Literature
  • Academics and Post-Academics Need to Talk More
  • The Simple Power of Finding Stuff Out (what should first year papers really try and do)
  • Crowdsourcing a database of “predatory OA journals”
  • staying current without being overwhelmed: my approach to reading the library literature
  • Science publishing: Open access must enable open use
  • A study of open access journals using article processing charges
  • Open access versus subscription journals: a comparison of scientific impact
  • What do I teach, anyway?
  • What is metadata? A Christmas themed exploration.
  • New Research on Why CEOs Should Use Social Media
  • Reserch Summary: Graduate Students Report Strong Acceptance and Loyal Usage of Google Scholar
  • Re-inventing the indie bookstore — Menlo Park store tries hybrid business model
  • In Defense of Incrementalism
  • Corporate Governance, Shared Governance, and Higher Ed
  • More on library novelty (leading change)
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