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By jdupuis on February 7, 2013.
  • Like lunch, writing isn’t free
  • when librarians lend their politics - or, information wants to be doctrinaire
  • OLITA Resolution on Opposition to Access Copyright License Agreements
  • Calling out nonsense - Access Copyright
  • On (Access) Copyright
  • What is the government's interest in copyright? Not that of the public.
  • The Fastest Way to Send Big Chunks of Data Is Through the Mail, Not the Internet
  • Postdocalypse now
  • You Can't Start the Revolution from the Country Club
  • The end of the book as we know it, and I feel (mostly) fine.
  • Lending literacy
  • When Authorship Isn’t Enough: Lessons from CERN on the Implications of Formal and Informal Credit Attribution Mechanisms in Collaborative Research
  • Fun with Energy Consumption Data
  • Dear HigherEd Communicators: John Tesh is Kicking Our Asses
  • Participatory Culture, Participatory Libraries
  • Doubling Down on DRM: Hachette U.K. dabbles in extraterritoriality
  • Majoring in Free Content
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