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[caption id="attachment_54437" align="aligncenter" width="514"] Students sharing how much they've spent on textbooks in one semester alone.[/caption] To celebrate Open Education Week (March 4-8), librarians at each campus library had…

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[caption id="attachment_54231" align="alignleft" width="106"] ©2015 Digital Disruption Partners, LLC[/caption] Today, we remember Aaron Swartz on the sixth anniversary of his death. Although Aaron Swartz (1986-2013)…

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[caption id="attachment_53744" align="alignleft" width="256"] This book is published under a CC BY-NC-SA license. Front image: The Trevelyon manuscript; the Tudor rose, prominently featured (fol. 53r).[/caption]…

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[caption id="attachment_53729" align="alignleft" width="212"] Becky Chilcott. The Constructivist Poster: https://www.openlibhums.org/site/academics/poster-series/[/caption] Although the Open Library for the Humanities (OLH) was launched only two years ago, their…

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[caption id="attachment_53586" align="alignleft" width="300"] Image from: Sliwoski G, Schubert M, Stichel J, Weaver D, Beck-Sickinger AG, Meiler J (2016) Discovery of Small-Molecule Modulators of the…

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