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		<title>Senator Grassley Releases Medical Ghostwriting Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times points out a new report released by Sen. Chuck Grassley on medical ghostwriting taking place in scholarly publishing. The NYT has reported on this specific topic previously but here&#8217;s a brief summary taken from Grassley&#8217;s report (full PDF from NYTimes):
Medical ghostwriting is a practice where pharmaceutical or device companies hire medical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Textbook alternatives are materializing for students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Students returning to college after summer break may find cheaper textbook alternatives waiting for them at the bookstore.  Others will have the option of downloading electronic versions of textbooks for free or purchasing reasonably priced print versions.

New Jersey higher eds will begin renting textbooks later this year.


Genesee Community College is working with Barnes and Noble [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iMonitor: A missing iPad feature for schools?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite meeting the software, hardware, and price needs of a Michigan high school, Businessweek reports that Apple’s iPad is being rejected by the school for two reasons: Teachers lack the ability to remotely monitor student activity and content in the form e-textbooks are not (yet) widely available from publishers.
The first problem can only be solved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.luzzo.com/imonitor-a-missing-ipad-feature-for-schools/</link>
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		<title>Huge C-Span Video Archive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[C-Span's free online video archive to include 160,000 hours of footage.]]></description>
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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.


       
    [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.luzzo.com/popular-science-archive-complete-and-free/</link>
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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.


       [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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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