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By jdupuis on March 7, 2013.
  • The Myth of the Successful College Dropout: Why It Could Make Millions of Young Americans Poorer
  • Faculty consider the future of research libraries
  • In Defense of Librarians
  • The Real Reason Journal Articles Should Be Free
  • The Genius Of Raising Brilliant Kids: A Conversation With Jack Andraka's Parents
  • How Corporations Score Big Profits By Limiting Access To Publicly Funded Academic Research
  • Can repositories solve the access problem?
  • Take me as I am, and my paper as it is?
  • Declines in Print Revenue Outweigh Digital Growth, Driving Results Down at Harlequin
  • Inside TED: the smartest bubble in the world
  • New Center Hopes to Clean Up Sloppy Science and Bogus Research
  • DPLA and the so-called “feral librarian”
  • The politics of the public eye
  • Hacking at Education: TED, Technology Entrepreneurship, Uncollege, and the Hole in the Wall
  • How does blogging about science benefit students?
  • At U-Va., tensions persist between Sullivan and Dragas (still problems at UVa)
  • Yes, Virginia is O.K. But…
  • The age of the brag is over: why Facebook might be losing teens
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