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Scientific publisher Springer has been doing several things lately that make me sit up and pay attention. Providing DRM-free PDF files of their ebooks is one, and now I see they are providing rather useful bits of scholarly information in a rather social media format. Springer Realtime gives currently trending topics and downloads for content [...] Going back to some idealized vision of the way things were won’t solve the problem. [...] The creation of knowledge through conversation is the core of liberal arts education. [...] A colleague called the Harvard faculty’s decision on making all of their works available in an institutional repository a “bold step towards online scholarship and open access.” I thought about this for a bit, and I’m not so sure it’s the right step, depending on how this process is done. Initially, I thought the resolution [...] |
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