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jdupuis | September 25, 2012
Competing with “Free,” Part One and Part Two
(Re)Defining the Library, Part 1: Why?, Part 2: How?
Smoking Gun on Sexism? (scientists are biased against women)
What Libraries Should Be: A Values Proposition
The matter of credit
Report on the International Workshop on Contribution and Scholarly Attribution
Please Stop The Social
An Introvert's Thoughts on Being A Professional Speaker and Consultant
Introverts and the ‘new groupthink’
Not So Fast on 'Open Access' (Historians having second thoughts?)
Rethinking What “Academic” Means
The disappearing web: Information decay is eating away our…
jdupuis | September 20, 2012
So you got a job with your prof: advice for undergrads
Undergrad Herding
The Great Geek Sexism Debate
New York Public Library Shifts Plan for 5th Ave. Building
New York Public Library Dials Back Plan to Move Books
New York Public Library Board of Trustees Approves Construction of Additional Book Storage at Landmark 42nd Street Building
Lions in Winter, Part One and Part Two
Amanda Palmer’s Million-Dollar Music Project and Kickstarter’s Accountability Problem
Why Reducing Faculty Stress Should Be An Explicit Goal of Academic IT
Mature Market for Online Education
MOOC Host Expands (Coursera…
jdupuis | September 12, 2012
Before You Jump on the Bandwagon ... (MOOCs)
It’s not about skills (hiring the right people and letting them do their job)
All is revealed: the real crisis on campus
Crafting an Engaging Lecture
MOOCs' Missing Pieces
MOOCs' Contradictions
Publishers Double Down (GSU copyright case)
Doing DH versus Doing Digital
Digital Textbooks Still Not Catching On With College Students
Time to go it alone on Open Access
As Students Scatter Online, Colleges Try to Keep Up (email is so 2011)
Hats off to Amazon (for cornering a whole bunch of ebook markets)
The Plagiarism Perplex
MOOCing On Site (site-based…
jdupuis | September 6, 2012
When did addiction become a good thing?
Getting scientists to take ethics seriously: strategies that are probably doomed to failure.
Why I Pay for Content (And Why That Makes Me Feel Like a Sucker)
On the importance of networking in academic settings
Two things prompted by a new website: space as a service and full library discovery
Still Here: A funny thing happened on the way to its predicted obsolescence.
The library became more popular than ever (NYPL renovation)
Understanding Digital Civics
Should we learn from the Masters or from the Pupils? (should students read the original papers on…
jdupuis | September 1, 2012
Patents Considered Evil
The MOOC debate
Higher Ed 2020: Epic Fail?
The Digital Age and Higher Education
Smart Writing: It’s good to be published, and better to be understood
Writing Books People Want to Read
3 Reasons Why There's No Measuring ROI On Social Media
Getting scientists to take ethics seriously: strategies that are probably doomed to failure.
Elitism, Equality and MOOCs
MOOCs and the overprepared student
Grading Clout? (using Klout to assign marks)
Learning From One Another (peer grading on Coursera)
Heard: The Sad Anthropological Truth About The Adjunct Professor Life
Bury Your…
jdupuis | August 30, 2012
An Academic Ghostwriter, the 'Shadow Scholar,' Comes Clean
The Mechanical MOOC
Rewriting the Journal (what will online do to journal publishing)
The Siege of Academe
The Self-Centered Library: A Paradox (why do we do what we do)
Tweeting By Faith (calculating social media ROI for universities)
Streaming content: Why buy when you can borrow so much more?
Carleton U reveals new donor deal in controversial political management program
>MOOCs will mean the death of universities? Not likely
The Problems with Peer Grading in Coursera
Building a Stellar Team (building an academic executive…
jdupuis | August 25, 2012
Let's Talk about Academic Integrity, Part I: BI (Before the Internet) and Part II AI (After the Internet)
Mining the astronomical literature
26 Internet safety talking points
Save the [Insert Noun Here] (library catastrophism)
Libraries and eBook Publishers: Friend Zone Level 300
An Unexpected Ass Kicking and 7 Things I Learned From My Encounter With Russell Kirsch
Twitter Is Where Conversations Go To Die
How should academic libraries communicate their own value?
What You Need to Know About MOOC's
Ask the Administrator: What Does “College Ready” Mean?
The Post-petroleum Future of Academic…
jdupuis | August 21, 2012
Integrating Integrity (teaching research ethics to grad students)
How to Train Graduate Students in Research Ethics: Lessons From 6 Universities
Connecting With New Faculty, Or, Welcome to Our World
Why Online Education Won't Replace College—Yet
How America learned to love summer reading
Make Us Do the Math (on the recent Hacker article)
Self archiving science is not the solution
“Innovation” and governance: Ontario’s proposed PSE system overhaul
Following the herd, or joining the merry MOOCscapades of higher-ed bloggers
What’s a Board to Do? (UVa post)
Assisting Research Versus Research…
jdupuis | August 15, 2012
I’m breaking up with eBooks (and you can too)
Ebooks Choices and the Soul of Librarianship
Blogging in the classroom: why your students should write online
The Last Future
Uncovering the world's 'unseen' science (preprint)
HBO Rightly Decides Not to Cater to Cord Cutters
In Virtual Play, Sex Harassment Is All Too Real
High and low: what RIM's failure is doing to the people of Waterloo
The Online Pecking Order: 'Conventional' online universities consider strategic response to MOOCs
Digital Deadline (campuses will be completely digital in 3 years, textbooks that is)
Supporting Public Access to…
jdupuis | August 11, 2012
The Naked and the TED
The TED Takedown Everyone’s Talking About
Jonah Lehrer, TED, and the narrative dark arts
The New Republic gets Download-The-Universe-ish!
I Point To TED Talks and I Point to Kim Kardashian. That Is All.
The Trouble with TED
The End of the Twilight of Doom
What’s right and what’s wrong about Coursera-style MOOCs
Peter Thiel's College Dropouts: How's That Working Out?
The Banality of Textbooks
Digital Deadline and Following the Lead of McGraw-Hill's Brian Kibby
Why I'm not mad at Amazon
What do we do and why do we do it? (philosophy of librarianship)
Cord-cutting is no…
jdupuis | August 3, 2012This is some vacation catch-up...
Is Algebra Necessary?
Mathematical Illiteracy in the NYT
There Are Many Ways to Improve High School Education: Dumbing It Down Is NOT One of Them
Does mathematics have a place in higher education?
Abandoning Algebra Is Not the Answer
It’s Not the Algebra, It’s the Arithmetic
The challenge for scholarly societies
Concrete Options For A Society Journal To Go OA
Re-skilling for Research: An investigation into the role and skills of subject and liaison librarians required to effectively support the evolving information needs of researchers
The future of…
jdupuis | August 2, 2012
Horses, motorcars and mergers on the LIS horizon
Mergers, boundaries, and image
St. Kate’s MLIS program is going under the business school
Maker Faire KC 2012 and what it means for libraries
At Libraries, Quiet Makes a Comeback
Blogs as Serialized Scholarship
Why Millennials Don't Want To Buy Stuff
Concrete options for a society journal to go OA
I Want It Today: How Amazon’s ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail.
Online Higher Education
Opening Ceremonies (changes in schol comm starting to seem inevitable)
Is online learning really cracking open the public post-…
Around the Web: Archives as discovery zones, Khan Academy reconsidered, Credit for datasets and more
jdupuis | June 27, 2012
Archives as Discovery Zones
Don't Use Khan Academy without Watching this First
Credit for Datasets
Digital Makeover in Your Future? (eportfolios)
Are Apps The Future of Book Publishing?
The Finch Report in a global Open Access landscape
Why Johnny Can’t Add Without a Calculator
To Remain Relevant, Libraries Should Help Patrons Create
Media beyond the marketplace
A practical guide to the Georgia State eReserves Copyright Case for Librarians
Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature: Status and Challenges for the Information Systems Community
AppleU Idea for Apple's Low-Paid Store…
jdupuis | June 9, 2012
Academic Librarians As Campus Hubs
Intellectual Freedom and the Library as a Workplace
MLA Shift on Copyright
Book Beat 2012 (on university presses at BEA)
Commencement Address to Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School (Laurence Lessig on political corruption)
How to Fail When Using Internal Social Media
The Curious Case of Internet Privacy (by Cory Doctorow)
Reaching Out: Why Geeks Need a Manifesto
How journals once facilitated and now hinder scientific progress.
Top Libraries in U.S. and Canada Issue Statement Demanding Better Ebook Services
How President Obama could really lead on open…
jdupuis | June 2, 2012
Open access will bankrupt us, publishers’ report claims
What data can and cannot do
I Point To TED Talks and I Point to Kim Kardashian. That Is All.
Why Library and eBooks Issues Matter
Sports Subsidies and Library Spending
Improving Research Skills
RUK: The Maturing Threat of Open Access
Letter from Books of Wonder to DOJ about ebooks lawsuit
Let's Not Call It "Computer Science" If We Really Mean "Computer Programming"
Reaching Out: Why are scientists trapped in the ivory tower and what can be done to escape?
What the Forbes model of contributed content means for journalism
Open Access:…
jdupuis | June 1, 2012
#scholpub , Maxwell and the Laws of Acadynamics
Please Don't Learn to Code
Please Don't Become Anything, Especially Not A Programmer
The Radical New Humanities Ph.D.
The Classroom Is Obsolete: It's Time for Something New
Dead-Tree Luddites
Open Access and the Future of Academic Scholarship
Helping Students Think About Thinking
Why the Facebook IPO Matters to Ed Tech and Higher Ed
Unglue.it: A Crowdfunded, E-Book Liberation Project
Unglue.it Launches on Thursday
Future U: Library 3.0 has more resources, greater challenges
Playing the Role of MOOC Skeptic: 7 Concerns
Don’t mention income…
jdupuis | May 17, 2012
Future U: The stubborn persistence of textbooks
Daunt: library e-lending "disruptive" to high street
A "License to Read": The Effect of E-Books on Publishers, Libraries, and the First Sale Doctrine
Inside the Georgia State Opinion
The GSU decision -- not an easy road for anyone
The GSU decision
E-Reservations
The Greatest Threat to Amazon May Just Be Libraries
Technology is a Double-Edged Sword
In Defense of the New York Public Library
Colloquium on Rethinking the Future of Scientific Communication
Why Nikola Tesla is the greatest geek who ever lived
OLA Statement on Copyright for the…
jdupuis | May 15, 2012
Universities have been taken over by administrators
Making Our Ideas More Accessible (by blogging, twitter, etc)
University Of Toronto's Lawyer In Access Copyright Deal Also Advised Access Copyright On Related Legislation
NLLA advising universities & colleges not to sign AUCC's proposed model license with Access Copyright
Motion for Senate concerning Access Copyright (8 May 2012)
Why Investing In Faculty Is the Best Method To Promote Innovation
RUSQ, Open Access, and Me
HBO Has Only Itself To Blame For Record 'Game Of Thrones' Piracy
Periodicals Price Survey 2012
Research Blogs and the…
jdupuis | May 12, 2012
The ugly underbelly of coder culture
Used-Book Stores in the Digital Age
The Massive Open Online Professor
Leave only footprints: how Google's ethical ignorance gets it in trouble
The Arrogance of Publishers vs. Academic Culture - Why the Outcome Is Virtually Certain
Becoming Prof 2.0
Library Journal Design Institute, Denver
The New York Public Library Central Library Plan and its Critics
The academic ethics of open access to research and scholarship
You have to share
Has Second Life Lived up to Expectations?
Communications, Social Media, and Technology Are Not Synonyms
If online education…
jdupuis | May 5, 2012
It doesn't matter what e-books cost to make
EdX: A Platform for More MOOCs and an Opportunity for More Research about Teaching and Learning Online
The Problem With EdX
How Should Your University Respond to edX?
Resisting the Robo-Assignment
The Immersion Method -- I & II (intensive "great books" courses)
Reconsidering Academic Careers
Libraries as Indoctrination Mills
The Virtues of Blogging as Scholarly Activity
Pay up, Yochai Benkler (the Benkler-Carr wager on the nature of the web)
The economics of digital sharecropping
Open letter to college graduates
A revolutionary new approach…