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		<title>Popular Science Archive: Complete and Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Popular Science magazine recently announced the availability of a free cover-to-cover archive of the magazine dating back to May 1872.  The archive is a result of a partnership with Google who also make the content available for browsing or searching on the Google Books site.

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		<title>Ghostwriting policies at medical schools in the US</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PLOS has a new article that examines the academic publishing policies on “authorship, ghostwriting, and conflicts of interest” currently in place at 50 medical schools in the US.]]></description>
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		<title>Open source textbooks coming to Texas?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Fort-Worth Star Telegram reports on legislation passed in Texas earlier this year (2009) that would enable the Texas Education Agency to create an online repository of open source textbooks for schools to adopt.  The state would also have the right to modify and update the works after purchase.

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		<title>Need a scholarly journal article, rent it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wired Campus reports on DeepDyve, a company that deals in scholarly publishing with a Netflix-like rental model. It offers articles from traditional publishers as well as open access sources.  Open access articles can be viewed for free while individual “premium” articles (from traditional publishers) can be rented for 24 hour period.  Rental prices start at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.luzzo.com/need-a-scholarly-journal-article-rent-it/</link>
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		<title>3 Sources for H1N1 Swine Flu Statistics and Charts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking for statistics, charts, or maps on H1N1 or seasonal influenza?  Here are three sources to get you started:
Centers for Disease Control:  Flu Activity &#38; Surveillance
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/fluactivity.htm
Includes several charts and statistical tables including

weekly and cumulative data on the number of infected
a breakdown of types of influenza
number of hospitalizations and deaths
pediatric deaths and more

Also includes a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open access textbooks from Florida</title>
		<description><![CDATA[News from Florida: Free open textbooks for everyone.
It was announced recently that a joint program called Orange Grove Texts Plus (OGT+) has been established between the University Press of Florida (UFP) and The Orange Grove, Florida’s Digital Repository, to provide free downloads of open access textbooks.  Downloads of electronic versions of books are available to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self Published Authors Can Now Sell At Sony&#8217;s eBook Store</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wired.com has a story telling how self published authors now have the ability to sell their works on Sony&#8217;s eBook store.  The article also points out that authors can also sell works on Amazon&#8217;s Kindle.  According to Sony&#8217;s partner, Smashwords, authors using the Sony store can expect &#8220;much higher royalties&#8221; with no charges for creating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.luzzo.com/self-published-authors-can-now-sell-at-sonys-ebook-store/</link>
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		<title>A book-like ebook reader from Asus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Computer hardware manufacturer Asus, known to computer geeks for components like motherboards and videocards,  appears to be close to adding an ebook reader to their eee line of netbook and nettop computers.
On the surface, two notable achievements in this planned model make it standout from the rest of the ebook readers on the market:

It’s really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More fraud in medical publishing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Slashdot points to an article in The New York Times describing a disturbing practice of one pharmaceutical company hiring a ghostwriting firm to pen articles for publication in academic journals.  Of course it would look mighty suspicious to journal editors seeing a manuscript authored by a writing firm so the writing firm rounded up some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.luzzo.com/more-fraud-in-medical-publishing/</link>
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		<title>MLA 7th Edition, YouTube, and User-Generated Content</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like adam over on theshiftingstacks, I began wondering about how to apply the seventh edition of the MLA Handbook to sites like YouTube and Flickr that host user-generated resources.
While the seventh edition of the “MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers” does a good job of providing examples for information found on sites that publish [...]]]></description>
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