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• iBooks Author EULA Restrictions Invite Antitrust Concerns, http://bit.ly/zBDgKL
• Libraries Borked by Ebook Forks, http://bit.ly/z700ue
• DepositMO and SWORD at Repository Fringe 2011 [includes videos], http://bit.ly/A6htmx
• A Professor’s Personal Open Access Policy, http://bit.ly/xVc8XJ
• As ALA Midwinter Closes, a Crucial Moment Looms for E-Books, http://bit.ly/x1mUV2

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• University Senate Makes Decision on Research Funding [OA Policy Vote Planned at Purdue], http://bit.ly/Auxw2s
• Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication, http://t.co/IXwxZGNU
• CRL, CRKN, and JISC Form Partnership, http://bit.ly/z78mK4
• ALA Midwinter 2012: Panel Tells Librarians to Go Forth and Digitize, http://bit.ly/xNHsvN
• Major Step in the SCOAP3 Tendering Process, http://bit.ly/y8XTcK

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• Notes on the Research Works Act [Harvard Open Access Project], http://bit.ly/wM1xoE
• Library of Congress Neutral on the Research Works Act, http://bit.ly/wa5Ypr
• The Research Works Act: Two More Dissenters, http://bit.ly/wBmSN8
• ALA Midwinter 2012: ALA to Meet with Top Executives of Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and Penguin on Ebook Lending, http://bit.ly/w8j2df
• iBooks 2: Reinventing Textbooks Or Lulu on Steroids?, http://bit.ly/wGWva0

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• EU Politicians Send Letter to US Congress Warning of 'Extraterritorial Effects' of SOPA and PIPA, http://bit.ly/AvP6Qp
• AAAS Does Not Endorse the Research Works Act, http://bit.ly/ybiGqp
• Copyright for Librarians (CFL) Reaches Millions More, http://bit.ly/xZFOI7
• After Historic Protest, Members of Congress Abandon PIPA and SOPA in Droves, http://bit.ly/xdCedB
• Millions Sign Google's Anti-SOPA Petition, http://cnet.co/y5SV3y

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• Academic Publishers Have Become the Enemies of Science, http://bit.ly/wXgAFA
• Nature Publishing Group and Digital Science Do Not Support the Research Works Act, http://bit.ly/yDZvWr
• "Least Restrictive Means"? One Way That SOPA Could Die in Court, http://bit.ly/wfnrPZ
• Stop Online Piracy Act Markup to Resume in February, http://1.usa.gov/xKPGdd
• U.S. Lawmakers Flip Their Positions on SOPA, PIPA, http://bit.ly/zpEudQ

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• How PIPA and SOPA Violate White House Principles Supporting Free Speech and Innovation, http://bit.ly/A7QP4T
• Cracking Open the Scientific Process, http://nyti.ms/ytka6B
• Research Works Act Could Challenge Public Access to Federally Funded Research, http://bit.ly/wjVVyl
• Research Works Act: Cambridge University Press Expands on Its Position, http://bit.ly/wrDl5q
• Major Cancer Societies to Support New Wiley Open Access Journal, http://bit.ly/wM0nqH

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• Combating Online Piracy while Protecting an Open and Innovative Internet [White House], http://bit.ly/wZddNR
• University of California Press Differs from AAP on Research Works Act, http://bit.ly/xC3Bbs
• Can AAP Members Stay Neutral in the Row over the Research Works Act?, http://bit.ly/zCDLn9
• Under Voter Pressure, Members of Congress Backpedal (Hard) on SOPA, http://bit.ly/wKDRKW
• Lamar Smith Follows Leahy's Steps with Plans to Delay DNS Implementation in SOPA, http://bit.ly/yXBVBK
• Springer Launches Interdisciplinary Open Access Journal SpringerPlus, http://bit.ly/xmXnXU

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• Berlin 9 OA Conference Urging More, Faster, http://bit.ly/scwMXK
• Swiss Govt: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal, http://bit.ly/uDNFX1
• Wolters Kluwer Health Acquires Leading Open Access STM Journal Publisher in India, http://bit.ly/u3XNph
• Another View of DRM for Publishers, http://bit.ly/rs3qEa
• European Commission Opens Formal Investigation into Sale of E-books, http://bit.ly/sHxgBu

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• Clarifying the Harvard Policies: A Response, http://hvrd.me/tsXinu
• Library and Archive Groups Delighted by Conclusions on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions at WIPO, http://bit.ly/vYeSeB
• What's New with EPUB 3?, http://bit.ly/sMQZ0o
• Prying Open Google's Closed Books, http://bit.ly/sRUaZi
• Royal Society Claims 1671 Copyright on Newton Letter (Copyright Law Born 29 Years Later), http://bit.ly/rxim0s

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• House Committee Rushing to Approve Dangerous "Information Sharing" Bill, http://bit.ly/tNhjNG
• Announcing the UC Library Reprints Service [University of California Libraries], http://bit.ly/ul4zTI
• The Open Access Policy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, http://bit.ly/smz9gi
• Cambridge University Press to Try Renting Academic Articles, http://bit.ly/tcmdrE
• Why Full Open Access Matters, http://bit.ly/sajXO1

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• Current Cites (November 2011), http://bit.ly/tSvNwE
• What's New—Issue 40, December 2011 [Digital Preservation Coalition], http://bit.ly/szRfjn
• The PROTECT IP Act Is Very Real and Very Bad—Call Now to Block It, http://bit.ly/vjHQ72
• Obama Wants Feds to Digitize All Records, http://bit.ly/th1dD5
• PLoS Open Access Collection—Resources to Educate and Advocate, http://bit.ly/uOFe2G
• Fahrenheit 451 Becomes E-book Despite Author's Feelings, http://bbc.in/uCQDiG

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• In Fight with Amazon, Libraries Caught in the Crossfire, http://bit.ly/se0L6m
• JISC Digital Preservation: Current & Future Work, Neil Grindley [Video], http://bit.ly/vgWe2X
• nestor German Network of Expertise in Digital Preservation, Matthias Hemmje [Video], http://bit.ly/rOjgLy
• KB- NL and the Dutch Infrastructure, Barbara Sierman [Video], http://bit.ly/vMFhzc
• Networks as Evolving Infrastructure for Digital Preservation, Martha Anderson [Video], http://bit.ly/uxhNjO
• EU-Funded Research on Digital Preservation, Javier Hernandez-Ros [Video], http://bit.ly/uUXf7S

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• How to COPE [Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity], http://bit.ly/rZ6ePd
• WIPO SCCR Begins Push to Finalise Nature of Instrument for the Visually Impaired, http://bit.ly/vtd8gX
• European High Court Rejects Internet Traffic Filtering as Violation of Fundamental Rights, http://bit.ly/vJ9le8
• Open Access and Scholarly Societies: Presentation Slides, http://bit.ly/tDYfYR
• John Wiley Expands Lawsuit against File-Sharing 'Dummies,' http://bit.ly/ttiMCM

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• Entire Computer Built into USB Thumb Drive, http://fxn.ws/vWAquT
• Quietly, Google Puts History Online, http://nyti.ms/rJ6EFE
• Trends in Scholarly Communication and Knowledge Dissemination in the Age of Online Social Media, http://slidesha.re/uPNOBE
• THE Scholarly Web, http://bit.ly/u1Ca8O
• Institutions in Ghana, Serbia and Uganda Sign the Berlin Declaration, http://bit.ly/stB3mh

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• Work in Progress: The Data Digitizer, http://bit.ly/v5Jewm
• Emulation Reading Room Prototype, http://bit.ly/vTkSeR
• EU Adopts Resolution against US Domain Seizures, http://bit.ly/sNAEzM
• Meet the Staff: Kara Malenfant, http://bit.ly/tTbSG2
• Register of Copyrights: Without SOPA, Copyright "Will Ultimately Fail," http://bit.ly/suBELA

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• A Look at the Testimony Given at Today's SOPA Lovefest Congressional Hearings. . . with a Surprise from MasterCard, http://bit.ly/rHhMOF
• An Explosion of Opposition to the Internet Blacklist Bill, http://bit.ly/tdeUdR
• OCLC Research Library Partnership Rapid Capture Webinar Recording Now Available, http://bit.ly/tq9Dpk
• What's on the Blacklist? Three Sites That SOPA Could Put at Risk, http://bit.ly/rRUVzz
• Academic Time Machine, http://econ.st/u3zbro

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• At Open-Access Meeting, Advocates Emphasize the Impact of Sharing Knowledge, http://bit.ly/vbgMKZ
• Coming of Age: Strategic Directions for Digital Repositories, http://slidesha.re/uLe1et
• Koha 3.4.6 Is Now Available, http://bit.ly/vdVYWz
• Tale of the Tablets: Comparing New Devices, http://bit.ly/sCQHfm
• The Privatization of Copyright Lawmaking, http://bit.ly/spvmEY

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• Could Amazon's Lending Library End in Court?, http://bit.ly/sgTfQs
• Nook Tablet vs. Kindle Fire: How the Specs Compare, http://bit.ly/uVq2nR
• More Than a Passing Fancy: Ongoing BISG Study Reveals E-Book Buyers Deepening Commitment to Digital Formats, http://bit.ly/rKNL62
• "Hacking the Systems" of Scholarly Communication and Personalized Medicine, http://bit.ly/veYdI6
• Authors' Guild v. HathiTrust, II(c) The Imaginary Component of Complex Litigation, http://bit.ly/rznfoD

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• Out of 173 Majors, Library Science Reportedly Has Fourth Highest Unemployment Rate, http://bit.ly/uLkhSh
• Are Open Access and Traditional Publishers in the Same Business?, http://bit.ly/tg9DGa
• Entertainment Industry Gets Another Usenet Provider to Shut Down: Is Usenet Illegal?, http://bit.ly/sm4hUM
• Do You Really Own That eBook?, http://bit.ly/tX9QpR
• The Average Lifespan of a Webpage, http://1.usa.gov/trmBr5

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• All 50 State Librarians Vote to Form Alliance with Internet Archive's Open Library, http://bit.ly/rPuUd5
• Is the Copyright Office a Neutral Party?, http://bit.ly/tNtALK
• New Questions, Concerns About Kindle's Lending Library—What About Authors?, http://bit.ly/vaDCvd
• Library Journal's Own Digital Shift, http://bit.ly/swF2mh
• Official Greenstone 2.85 Released! [Greenstone Digital Library Software], http://bit.ly/tkjibe

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• EPUB 3 Becomes Final IDPF Specification—Poised to Unleash an Econtent Revolution, http://bit.ly/vc3aSj
• What's New—Issue 39, November 2011 [Digital Preservation Coalition], http://bit.ly/svkAsj
• Copyright Experts Discuss CC License Version 4.0 at the Global Summit, http://bit.ly/vfQod7
• Will Copyright Hamper IP Closed Captioning?, http://bit.ly/txvTta
• Amazon Launches Kindle Lending Library for US, http://bit.ly/vIGUXW
• Digital Humanities Now 2.0: Bigger and Better, with a New Review Process, http://bit.ly/vgiRz6

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• Major Medical Library Closing Its Doors to Patrons and Moving to Digital Model [William H. Welch Medical Library], http://bit.ly/sPnzf5
• DuraSpace Launches Open-Source Cloud Service, http://bit.ly/rQDwYj
• The Digital Death of Copyright's First Sale Doctrine, http://bit.ly/svfDSG
• SOPA: Hollywood's Latest Effort to Turn Back Time, http://cnet.co/uvdDn9
• Law School Library Leads Open Access [Yale], http://bit.ly/u8iS1c

• NISO Launches New Open Discovery Initiative to Develop Standards and Recommended Practices for Library Discovery Services Based on Indexed Search, http://bit.ly/vkcZ7G
• Content as Commodity—Price Elasticity and New Business Models, http://bit.ly/sOtyEP
• 21 Useful Cloud Computing Resources for Librarians, http://bit.ly/uFCg03
• The OA Interviews: InTech's Nicola Rylett, http://bit.ly/vuGrji
• House Trying to Rush Through Its Version of PROTECT IP; Tech Industry Asks Why?, http://bit.ly/rKFvu1

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• Continuing the Conversation: Integrating iPads and Tablet Computers into Library Services Part 2, http://bit.ly/nmTl4M
• Blackboard Launches New Open Education Initiatives, http://prn.to/rikOxE
• Open Bibliography at Berkeley; New Visions, http://bit.ly/qiS2Xi
• The Digital Public Library of America: First Things First, http://bit.ly/oVPjyl
• The British Library and the Lure of Amazon, http://bit.ly/r9B3gb

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• The Shrinking Orphan Works Problem, http://bit.ly/n61kKX
• Information or Artifact: Digitizing a Book, Part 1, http://bit.ly/pKHZjw
• Information or Artifact: Digitizing a Book, Part 2, http://bit.ly/o9kxNf
• The World's Biggest Open Data Event [Open Government Data Camp 2011], http://bit.ly/nPdDi2
• Shutting Down Open Resources, http://bit.ly/ragV4r
• WordDown: Word to HTML5 Conversion Tool, http://bit.ly/qdJ3pc
• EFF Gets Straight Privacy Answers From Amazon about New "Silk" Tablet Browser, http://bit.ly/qskTmq

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