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By jdupuis on February 20, 2013.
  • You Build A Library with Books
  • Beware the Big Errors of ‘Big Data’
  • Some Preliminary Theses on MOOCs
  • Tear it down, build it up: the Research Output Team, or the library-as-publisher
  • Publishers versus libraries
  • >Waking Up to New Approaches to Community Media and Librarianship
  • Wikipedia vs Britannica
  • Open Access, library and publisher competition, and the evolution of general commerce
  • Why Science Journal Paywalls Have to Go
  • A Vision for the Future of Scholarly Publishing
  • Scientists who engage with society perform better academically
  • MacArthur Foundation researchers find a new digital divide that's hard to cross
  • The Case Against Patents
  • What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?
  • Another blog post that won’t make any money
  • Public History and the University: Opportunities and Challenges
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