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Elsevier Faces Tough Questions About Its Business Model During Library and Publishing Conference

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And Elsevier, the for-profit scholarly communications giant that many librarians and researchers love to hate, will never go away. The daylong program kicked off with a riveting one-on-one conversation between Kevin Guthrie, ITHAKA’s president, and Youngsuk “YS” Chi, the chairman of Elsevier. But we are profitable.”

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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

ERIC ERIC which stands for the Education Resources Information Center is basically an academic search engine that allows you to search for scholarly literature and research papers published across different peer-reviewed journals and academic periodicals. Some of these materials are accessible for free.

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Register for the Library 2.0 "Emerging Technology" Mini-Conference - Plus, Some Accepted Sessions Are Online!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

His research into technology-enhanced learning has led to many software development projects within library settings and provides unique insights into new student’s expectations and needs and helps inform the work that he does as the Orientation Services and Environments Librarian for undergraduate students at the University of Illinois.

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Next Week - The Library 2.0 "Emerging Technology" Mini-Conference - All Keynotes and Sessions Posted!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

His research into technology-enhanced learning has led to many software development projects within library settings and provides unique insights into new student’s expectations and needs and helps inform the work that he does as the Orientation Services and Environments Librarian for undergraduate students at the University of Illinois.

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Will 'Publish or Perish' Become 'Clicks or Canned'? The Rise of Academic Social Networks

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“The idea that some of these sites are for-profit raises questions about whether our work is really going to be available to the public, or if we’re doing it for free for a corporation,” says Fatima Espinoza Vasquez, assistant professor at the University of Kentucky’s School of Information Science. “It It also raises copyright issues.

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Learning with 'e's

I'm quite at home in this area of academia, and my thinking is shaped and informed by these disciplines, so I was delighted to be invited to speak. What should we make it all, and do we consider these new trends threats or opportunities? I plan to discuss our possible responses to this. I'm not the only one.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” The Chronicle of Higher Education on Elsevier “becoming a data company.” Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security. Via The New York Times : “A Few Telling Freshman Trends.” The Internet Archive’s Jason Scott on “Celebrating 30 Years of HyperCard.”