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• Caltech Announces Open Access Policy
• Virtual Reality and the Museum of the Future
• Are Libraries Essential? Mixed Message in Latest Pew Survey
• Mark Edington [Amherst College Press] on the Future of Academic Library Presses
• Next Steps for MOOCs and Libraries
• The Unstoppable Growth of High Quality Open Access Resources (December 2013 Early Year-end Edition of the Dramatic Growth of Open Access)
• European Commission Announces Public Consultation on the Review of EU Copyright Rules
• The Impact of Randy Schekman Abandoning Science and Nature and Cell

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• Norway to Digitize All Norwegian Books, Allowing Domestic IP Addresses to Read All of Them, Irrespective of Copyright Status
• The End of an Era for Academia.edu and Other Academic Networks?
• Wiley Trials 'Transferable Peer Review'
• Exclusive Survey Results: All About Self-Publishing
• Nobelist and Editor of Open-Access Journal Boycotts Top Science Journals
• Microsoft Eyes Free Versions of Windows Phone, RT, Report Say
• Research Reveals Unexpected Positive Outlook for Printed Books
• Wiley Posts $15 Million in Restructuring Charges

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• Who Will Upgrade the Telecom Foundation of the Internet?
• James Grimmelmann: Two Fair Use Rulings, One Clear Message
• Why Elsevier Is Completely in the Right… and Totally Wrong
• Digital Public Library of America: Young but Well Connected
• The Next Generation of Custom Textbooks
• Reflections on the OAR Conference 2013
• Open Access Publishing by APC: Dominated by the Commercial Sector
• Revealed! The 50 Best Tech Products of 2013
• Stage Five Book Publishing: A Guide for University Presses

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• Posting Your Latest Article? You Might Have to Take It Down
• Elsevier in Open Access Row
• Elsevier Periodically Issues Takedown Notices. Here's Why—and Options for Authors if Your Hosting Platform Receives One
• Penn GSE Study Shows MOOCs Have Relatively Few Active Users, with Only a Few Persisting to Course End
• Dancing Baby Files Opening Brief in DMCA Abuse Appeal
• Judge Approves Final E-book Settlements; Payments to Begin in Early 2014
• MPAA Studios Sent 25 Million DMCAs in Six Months, Only Eight Were Contested

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• CSHL Launches bioRxiv, a Freely Accessible, Citable Preprint Server for Biology
• A Line in the Sand
• The Peer Review Landscape–What Do Researchers Think? Adrian Mulligan Reflects on Elsevier's Own Research
• New 'Invisibility Cloak' Type Designed
• Self-Publishing Movement Continues Strong Growth in U.S., Says Bowker
• A Future Where University Presses and University Libraries Work Together
• Google Deleted 200 Million "Pirate" Search Results in 2013

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• A Conversation with BioMed Central's Cockerill on Open Access Publishing
• Australian Postal Service Introduces Video Stamps
• Announcement—Anyone Can Now Publish Unlimited PeerJ PrePrints for Free
• Study: Netflix, YouTube Traffic on the Rise; Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Nears Extinction
• Scirus Says Goodbye!
• Google Wants Tattoos to Act as Smartphone Microphones
• The World's 60 Largest Book Publishers, 2013
• Notes on Thoughtfulness in Scholarly Publishing (1): A la Carte Pricing
• Open Data—You Can See It, but Now You Can Play with It!
• Two-Thirds of the World's Population Will Have LTE Coverage by 2019
• Can Scholarly Publishing Evolve Beyond the PDF?
• The Content Mine: Where Do We Get FACTS From?
• OASPA's Second Statement Following the Article in Science Entitled "Who's Afraid of Peer Review?"

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• Head in the Clouds: 100% PDA and No Approval Plan
• Publarians and Lublishers: Role Bending in the New Scholarly Communications Ecosystem
• E-textbooks: Better? Cheaper? Obsolete(r)?
• Measuring the Research Impact on the Web
• Discovery or Displacement?
• Revisiting Plato's Cave
• The Against the Grain Digital Archive Is Now Available
• European Parliament Members Explore Decriminalizing File-Sharing

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• Internet Archive Building Damaged by Fire
• The MOOC Syllabus Blues: Strategies for MOOCs and Syllabus Materials
• Medieval Journal Launches Second Phase of Open Peer-Review Project
• iPad Air Review: The Best Tablet Gets Better
• Apple Remains Defiant in Latest Filings
• How Twitter Changed the World, Hashtag-by-Hashtag
• Booksellers Say "No" to Amazon Source
• The Web-scale University Press

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• Checking In With Google Books, HathiTrust, and the DPLA
• An Interview with Janne-Tuomas Seppänen, Co-founder of Peerage of Science
• Thomson Reuters Collaborates with Australian National Data Service to Raise the Profile of Research Data
• Booksellers Can Sell Kindles Under New Amazon Program
• Mozilla Anticookie Tool Plans Crumbling
• Once Again, the RIAA Shows How Easy It Is to Infringe on Copyrights

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• Ebooks and Discounts Drive 98 Publishers Out of Business
• HarperCollins Unbound Links Print, Digital
• Facebook Drives the Most Traffic to Publishers, Beating Twitter and Reddit
• American Chemical Society Extends New Open Access Program Designed to Assist Authors
• OCLC and ProQuest Work Together to Automate E-Book Collection Management
• UC Open Access Policy Implementation Is Live!

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• UK Implements Copyright Term Extension from 50 to 70 Years
• Authors Guild v HathiTrust: Oral Argument on Appeal
• Linux 3.12 Released .. and No Merge Window Yet .. and 4.0 Plans?
• Books, Commerce, Economics, Marketing a Snapshot of the Scientific and Technical Publishing Market
• Security Researcher Says New Malware Can Affect Your BIOS; Communicate over the Air
• Amazon Unveils Early Access Program, Kindle First
• Digital Printing Moves Beyond the Long Tail
• How an Epic Blunder by Adobe Could Strengthen Hand of Password Crackers
• Academics Urge Peers to Self-Publish Research

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• Gale Launches New Purchase Model for E-Books
• HarperCollins Goes Direct-to-Consumer for Global E-Book Sales
• Facebook May Start Logging Your Cursor Movements
• Surface 2: More Than a Tablet
• iGoogle 24 Alternatives. (Updated)
• Audio Remix Competition from the Smithsonian and SoundCloud
• iPad Air Benchmarks Show 80 Percent Speed Bump over iPad 4
• 2012 Academic Library Trends and Statistics
• B&N Releases Upgraded Nook GlowLight E-reader
• Now Available: Report Two of Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading, Volume 4
• Michelle Willmers on the State of Open Access: Where Are We, What Still Needs to Be Done?

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• Google+ Overhauls Photo, Video Features in Major Update
• Higher Education Community Supports Public Access to Taxpayer Funded Research in Record Numbers
• Report: Google's Smartwatch Nearing Mass Production
• ORCID Public Data File Now Available
• Amazon Matches Print Books with Discounted Digital Copies
• Open Access Future in the Humanities and Social Sciences {Videos of conference presentations]
• Developing Indicators of the Impact of Scholarly Communication Is a Massive Technical Challenge, but It's Also Much Simpler Than That
• Web Annotation as a First Class Object

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• For Major Publishers, Will Print No Longer Be the Norm?
• A Case Study in Closed Access
• ALA Defines New Ebook Goals
• 3D Imaging & Printing For Cultural Heritage—Smithsonian, DC, Nov 13-14
• Another Reason to Hate TPP: It Gives Big Content New Tools to Undermine Sane Digital Rights Policies
• FREE WEBCAST: Measuring Impact with Altmetrics [registration required]
• 3D Printing, Matisse, and the Arbitrariness of Copyright Terms
• Followup: NonCommercial and NoDerivatives Discussion [Creative Commons]

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• Digital Public Library of America Announces Million-Dollar Grant to Train Public Librarians in Digital Technologies
• Mount Saint Vincent University Adopts Open Access Policy
• ALPSP Report Indicates Publisher Health but OA Concerns
• NISO Altmetrics meeting in Washington, DC 12/13/13
• CDL Past and Future: 2012-2013 Annual Report and 2013-2014 Strategic Initiatives

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• Open Access MegaJournals—Have They Changed Everything?
• Post-Publication Peer Review Mainstreamed
• Good Practices for University Open-Access Policies
• Elsevier Ups edX MOOC Support
• UK Open Access Mandates, Six Months On
• US Federal Open Access Rulemakings to Come
• Penn State, Michigan State Win $236K Mellon Grant for Public Philosophy Journal

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• Sloan Foundation Awards ARL Grant to Develop SHARE for Access to Publicly Funded Research
• PubMed Commons: A New Forum for Scientific Discourse
• Helmholtz Association Commits to [Open Access] Policy
• New SPIE Open Access Publishing Program Wins Strong Participation
• Open Access Fund For Wellcome Library Users ["primarily… independent, non-affiliated researchers"]
• Open Access Legislation In The US and Canada Looks to Prioritize Post-Publication Archiving, Not Publishers' Profits
• A New Model For Internet Governance Is in the Air

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• Open Access: Six Myths to Put to Rest
• Open Access Week 2013: The Time for Reform Is Now
• OA Journals Published by Societies: Maps and Data Visualizations (3rd ed.)
• The Past Year in Open Access
• New to Open Access?
• University Libraries Faculty Open Access to Research [Virginia Tech OA Policy]
• Five Flavors of Open Access from DuraSpace: AFFORDABLE
• Protecting IP?

Star Trek: Predicting the Future Since 1966 [Infographic]

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• New Wave of Online Peer Review and Discussion Tools Frightens Some Scientists
• Let's Be Open about Open Access
• Open Access Week 2013
• Placements & Salaries 2013: The Emerging Databrarian
• Placements & Salaries 2013: Salaries Stay Flat; Specialties Shift
• Placements & Salaries 2013: Explore All the Data
• "Six Strikes" Copyright Alert System Costs Millions

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• Oyster Opens to Public, Releases iPad App
• Windows 8.1: What a Difference a Year Makes
• Elsevier and Kitware Bring 3D Visualization Tools and Techniques to ScienceDirect
• Upgrading to Windows 8.1: Your New OS Survival Guide
• Apache Software Foundation Unveils Hadoop 2, Replacing MapReduce with YARN
• Publishing: Open Citations
• Ubuntu 13.10 Review: The Linux OS of the Future Remains a Year Away
• Supporting Copyright Reform

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• Measuring Altmetrics: The Network and Scholarly Publishing
• Elsevier's Philippe Terheggen on the State of Open Access: Where Are We, What Still Needs to Be Done?
• Lessons from the Faux Journal Investigation
• 5,400 Images from the Getty Research Institute's Special Collections Now Available as Open Content
• Scholarly Kitchen Podcast: Howard Ratner on CHORUS and ORCID
• Post-Digitisation Challenges: A Cautionary Tale, Some Facts & Figures, Some Good Examples [Presentation]

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• SHARE [Presentation by John Vaughn]
• CHORUS: Revealing the Pilot [Presentation by Howard Ratner]
• World Record: Wireless Data Transmission at 100 Gbit/s
• Seeking a Path toward Open Access for Books
• Amaze Project Aims to Take 3d Printing 'into Metal Age'
• Key Internet Institutions Ditch US Leadership; Brazil to Host Global Summit to Draw Up New Governance Model
• How to Opt Out of Google Using Your Name and Face in Ads

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• Books with "Questionable Content" Being Deleted from Ebookstores in Sweeping Ban
• Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: New Ebook Markets, Battles and Pricing Strategies
• September 30 2013 Dramatic Growth of Open Access
• Anonymous Comments Could Suffer under European Court of Human Rights Ruling
• Bowker: Number of Self-Published Titles Grows Nearly 60% in 2012

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• Oxford University Press Joins OAPEN-UK Project
• Digital Transition Drives BISG Annual Meeting
• Podcast: Tilting to Fair Use [Google Books case]
• Amazon Paperwhite Is the Best Digital Reading Experience Money Can Buy
• Digital Scholarship and Digital Libraries: Past, Present, and Future [Presentation, Christine L. Borgman]
• Automatically Download Metadata for Your Ebooks with Calibre
• INRIA (The French National Institute for Research in Computer Sciences and Control) Open Access Mandate
• The Law Belongs To Everyone, We Tell Standards Organizations
• Bjorn Brembs on the State of Open Access: Where Are We, What Still Needs to Be Done?

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• The Varieties of the Public Domain
• Starting an OA Journal
• Referencing a Tweet in an Academic Paper? Here's a Citation Generator
• NEA Study Finds Reading Levels Steady, though 'Literature' Reading Dips
• Fifteen Years on—and We're Just Getting Started [Google]
• Lawsuit Alleging Gmail Ads Are "Wiretapping" Gets Judge's OK
• Open Access: SAGE & Jisc Publish Report on Role Academic Librarians Play in Article Processing Charges
• Facebook Lets You Edit Posts after Sharing on Android and Web Now, iOS Soon

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