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Sources of Confusion
I’m always interested in what Project Information Literacy is up to. This week they have posted an interview with Sandra...
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An Incident of Road Rage on the Information Highway
Google has been driving me crazy. Until this week, I had used our campus version of Google apps for my...
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Search: How Libraries Do it Wrong
A couple of new articles forthcoming in College & Research Libraries just caught my eye. The first, by Brett Bodemer...
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A Modest Proposal Inspired by Aaron Swartz
I don’t know what Aaron Swartz planned to do with the four million or so articles that he downloaded from...
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Breaking News: Academic Journals are Really Expensive!
. . . who knew? As I write this, the Minnesota state capital has opened its doors after a nineteen-day...
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Nothing Personal: How Database Licenses Make Pirates of Us All
The other day, as I was tracking down the text of a classic article in JSTOR to refer to in...
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Second Thoughts: The Value of Research Papers
Back in April, I wrote a bit cantankerously about my doubts that research papers as a genre are a particularly...
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Prepare to Repel Researchers!
An interesting question came up the other day on COLLIB-L, a discussion list for college librarians. A librarian reported that...