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The Case for an Institutionally Owned Knowledge Infrastructure
The many bottlenecks that the commercial monopoly on research information has imposed are stimulating new strategies, write James W. Weis, Amy Brand and Joi Ito.
Free Textbooks for Law Students
Legal scholars are increasingly adopting and creating free textbooks in an attempt to increase affordability for students. But are these textbooks considered open educational resources?
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The Mathematics of Flourishing
Scott McLemee reviews Francis Su's Mathematics for Human Flourishing.
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Against Recycling
The concept of self-plagiarism is peculiar and in some ways more interesting than ordinary plagiarism, observes Scott McLemee.
‘Fixing Law Schools’
Author discusses his new book on problems with legal education.
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Plagiarize This!
Why is brazenly putting one's name on a text that someone else wrote repugnant? Should it be? Scott McLemee explores the issue.
College Bookstores Oppose Cengage-McGraw Merger
Planned pricing changes by academic publisher Cengage have not gone down well with the National Association of College Stores.