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By jdupuis on May 31, 2013.
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  • Academics and universities must continue to develop open access alternatives to break the monopoly of large publishers
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  • Open Access Advocates Trumpet the Fall of the Paywall
  • Survivorship bias and electronic publishing: practically no one is making any money
  • The Challenges of Measuring Social Impact Using Altmetrics
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  • 3 Guidelines for Publishing Your First Open Data Sets
  • A Copyright Review Bibliography
  • The Genius and the Soil: Open Access and the Politics of Information
  • A Futurist Looks at the Future of Marketing
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