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• Corporate Counsel Magazine: "How an Ombuds Can Foster Collaboration and Reduce Risk"

  
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  The current issue of the leading periodical and website for in-house attorneys includes an article on Ombuds. The piece focuses on the benefit of Ombuds for "knowledge workers," who collaborate frequently and are largely autonomous. These workers are a special challenge for management because interpersonal ...
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• Blogger threatened with $1 billion suit for writing about allegedly predatory publisher

  
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  Jeffrey Beall, a US academic librarian who uses his Scholarly Open Access blog to write about scholarly publishers dubious practices, is being threatened with a $1 billion lawsuit by an Indian publishing group.
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• “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” by Chinua Achebe

  
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  Remember my Heart of Darkness post from a few days back? Well in it I mentioned an article, “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness,” by Chinua Achebe ( available online ) and I just finished reading it. I’m going to reproduce their bibliographic information at the bottom of the page, ...
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• CHEAP RESEARCH ESSAYS

  
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  Who around you needs help writing an essay? The point when school people are genuinely posed this question, the majority of them concede they require help. Indeed, those learners who do great in their school work will want some assistance. This is in light of the fact that a few assignments give them challenges they ...
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• University Press Roundup: Snob Zones, The Great Gatsby, Mother’s Day Recipes, and More!

  
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  Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers! As always, if you particularly enjoy something or think that we missed an important post, please let us know in the comments: Snob Zones? The Beacon Broadside explains with a link to a fascinating interview with Lisa Prevost, author ...
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• "Trends in Image Use by Historians and the Implications for Librarians and Archivists"

  
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  Valerie Harris and Peter Hepburn have published "Trends in Image Use by Historians and the Implications for Librarians and Archivists" in the latest issue of College & Research Libraries. Heres an excerpt: For years, libraries have offered reproduction services to users, with historians being the core audience. ...
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• Sustainability at Any Price is not Sustainable: Open Access in Archaeology

  
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  This blog post looks at the open access debate, and notes how sustainability is as much of an ideological and political question as it is a financial issue. It is intended to follow up on previous blog posts ( first , second , third ) that discussed how the Aaron Swartz prosecution and death ...
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• Finding out who your friends are

  
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  The period for filing amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) briefs in the appellate phase of the Georgia State University copyright and fair use case has closed, so it is a good time to take stock of who has weighed in on each side, and what their arguments look like.  Even though this will be a long post, it ...
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• "Types of Open Access Publishers in Scopus"

  
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  David Solomon has published "Types of Open Access Publishers in Scopus" in Publications. Heres an excerpt: This study assessed characteristics of publishers who published 2010 open access (OA) journals indexed in Scopus. Publishers were categorized into six types; professional, society, university, scholar/researcher, ...
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• University of Michigan Press Launches Maize Books, a Nontraditional Press with an Open Access Option

  
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  The University of Michigan Press has launched Maize Books, which will offer an open access publishing option. Heres an excerpt from the announcement: The University of Michigan Press, a unit of Michigan Publishing, is committed to producing and disseminating high-quality scholarship. As part of that commitment, were ...
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• An Item for the Book Budget

  
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  This summer a scholarly book is appearing that many readers will not want to miss.Dr. Lauren Pristas precise, scholarly studies of the collects of the Roman Missal have already appeared in articles published in theological journals such as Nova et...
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• Don’t Miss Another Hour with the Chefs, and Other Highlights — The SSP Annual Meeting in San Francisco

  
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  The Chefs are headed to San Francisco for another lively session closing out the SSP Annual Meeting. A range of topics and opinions will serve as dessert for a terrific meeting. Continue reading »
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• University Press Roundup

  
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  Our weekly roundup of the best posts from around the world of academic publishing.
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• Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Adopts Open Access Policy

  
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  The Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health has adopted an open access policy. Heres an excerpt from the announcement: In accordance with their open access resolution, Mailman School researchers commit to having their published scholarly articles included in Columbias digital repository, Academic Commons, ...
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• ACRL Supports Accelerating Science Award Program

  
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  ACRL has joined major sponsors Public Library of Science, Wellcome Trust, and Google to launch the Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP), which recognizes individuals who have applied scholarly research – published through open access – to innovate in any field and benefit society. The award program seeks ...
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  Scholarly malpractice, again... ... or why you cant trust the folderol that passes for sociological data or "the attraction of orderly falsehoods." Again, I do not excuse those who resort to cheating.  But as the consumer of these publications, we should be worried, because this system essentially selects for ...
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• (Mostly) Academics on Memes: A Bibliography

  
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  Earlier today, a colleague posed the following question to a Media Studies Facebook Group: “Hey media folks, does anyone have any suggestions for undergrad-level articles on memes—meme production, meme replication, etc.? Also open to any other recent writing on other aspects of internet culture that might have ...
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• The Awesome Power of Self-Selection

  
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  Why I never became a journalist In my first two years of college, I wandered from major to major — theatre, undecided, political science. One muggy day in the summer of 1979, I realized I was going nowhere. I was working in Columbus, Ohio, for a guy whose business model had something to do with selling frozen meat ...
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• PeerJ in the Chronicle Review

  
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  Jason Hoyt ( @jasonHoyt ) is recognized as one of "Ten Tech Innovators 2013" in The Chronicle Review .Ironically, the article is probably behind a paywall. 1 Heres an excerpt. A basic individual membership begins at $99 and entitles a researcher to publish one article a year in PeerJ. (The base price goes up a ...
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• Meet me at the intersection

  
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  In March the ACRL published a new White Paper on Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy: Creating Strategic Collaborations for a Changing Academic Environment which looks at the ways in which the dramatic changes taking place in the environment for scholarly communication have necessary ...
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