Showing posts with label Chronicle of Higher Ed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chronicle of Higher Ed. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Tech Therapy: Publishers Explain costs of Journal Publishing

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From the Chronicle of Higher Ed a 20 minute interview with Fred Dylla, executive director at the American Institute of Physics, and Brian D....
Monday, August 20, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 34): Copyright, Digital Public Library, Colleges & Big Data + More

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University of California at Berkeley professor Dr. Pamela Samuelson in The Chronicle from a few weeks ago on Copyright reform and the creati...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 33 ) The Cost of Higher Education in the US - Chronicle, Economist, Bain + More

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The problem with the cost of education in the US ( Economist) : A crisis in higher education has been brewing for years. Universities have...
Monday, July 02, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 27): Julian Barnes, eTextbooks Anyone? Inheriting eBooks + More

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Julian Barnes writing in the Guardian about his life as a bibliofile: By now, I was beginning to view books as more than just utilitari...
Monday, June 25, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 26): AAUP Meeting, Summer Reading Lists, Magazines, The Guardian's Future +More

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Last week the Association of American University Presses held their annual conference in Chicago, (where I attended and made two presentati...
Sunday, June 03, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 23): Amazon, Achilles, Ulysses +More

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In a heavily retweeted article, The Nation takes a look at The Amazon Effect .  In the process, the author seems to rely a lot on what J...
Monday, April 30, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 18): Cloud Education, Navigating LBF, NYPL Rennovations, Pottermore + More

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Is the cloud the future to revolutionizing education?  Gordon Freedman in the Chronicle proposes some interesting ideas ( Chron ): The pro...
Monday, April 16, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 16): Texas Custom, Apps For Education, William Boyd, Official Chinese Authors, + More

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Tarrant county (Texas) attempts to save students money on textbooks runs into faculty resistance ( IHEd ): The push for cheaper textbooks ...
Monday, January 23, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 4): Research Works Act, Aussie Fiction + More

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The Chronicle of Higher Ed looks at the Research Works Act: ( Chron ) Whatever the executive branch decides to do about open-access manda...
Wednesday, November 02, 2011

How to reform copyright

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Lewis Hyde in the Chronicle of Higher Ed has some interesting observations and proposals for reforming copyright: Focusing on the benefit...
Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Judge Dismisses UCLA Copyright Case: Could Impact Authors Guild/HathiTrust Case

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The Chronicle reports on a case brought against UCLA for breaching copyright in using streaming video.  James Grimmelmann, an NY Law School ...
Monday, August 15, 2011

MediaWeek (Vol 4, No 33): The Chronicle of Higher Ed on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11

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In advance of the 10 year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks The Chronicle of Higher Education has published a special issue that looks at a ...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

MediaWeek (Vol 4, No 21): End of World Edition - An Essay on Privacy, Books & Marketing, Libraries + More

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From the Chronicle of Higher Ed an essay on privacy from law educator Daniel J. Solove: Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to...