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Defining Fair Use
Association of Research Libraries spells out principles and best practices for making copyrighted materials as free as possible while avoiding lawsuits.
Behind the Digital Curtain
Could weaving the digital humanities into undergraduate education help improve students' information literacy?
Libraries: A Paper Wikipedia
With the open-source encyclopedia blacked out to protest U.S. Internet bill, college librarians offer their services (and verifiable sources).
Pulling for Better E-Textbook Prices
Universities have started banding together to negotiate favorable contracts with software vendors. With new effort, a group of them aims to exercise similar leverage with publishers on behalf of students.
The Promotion That Matters
Language and literature scholars have embraced technology in their research, but can they win tenure on it?
Academic Libraries in Flux
Latest Education Department data show steady overall spending, a boom in e-books and rising costs of electronic journal subscriptions.
Wards of the Court
A sharp split over digitized versions of "orphan works," as well as anger over Google's books project, led authors' group to sue major university libraries.