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		<title>Elsevier-funded NY Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney Wants to Deny Americans Access to Taxpayer Funded Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Eisen In 2008, under bipartisan pressure from Congress to ensure that all Americans would be able to access the results of taxpayer-funded biomedical research, the US National Institutes of Health instituted a Public Access Policy: The NIH Public Access Policy ensures that the public has access to the published results of NIH funded research. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media in the 16th Century: How Luther Went Viral</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Economist&#8230; It is a familiar-sounding tale: after decades of simmering discontent a new form of media gives opponents of an authoritarian regime a way to express their views, register their solidarity and co-ordinate their actions. The protesters’ message spreads virally through social networks, making it impossible to suppress and highlighting the extent of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books and Band Saws: the Future of Libraries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Jon Kalish at NPR on Mind/Shift&#8230; As information becomes more digital, public libraries are striving to redefine their roles. A small number are working to create “hackerspaces,” where do-it-yourselfers share sophisticated tools and their expertise. The Allen County Public Library, which serves the city of Fort Wayne, Ind., has a modest hackerspace inside a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Whitman, owner of Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company, dies at 98</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Matt Schudel at The Washington Post, Post Local&#8230; George Whitman, the owner of Shakespeare and Company, a bookshop that became the center of English-language literary life in Paris and might be the most famous and beloved bookstore in the world, died Dec. 14 in his apartment above the store. He died two days after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jefferson’s Taper: A National Digital Library</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Robert Darnton at The New York Review of Books&#8230; In a famous letter of 1813, Thomas Jefferson compared the spread of ideas to the way people light one candle from another: “He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lites his taper at mine, receives light [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Journal, Volume 8, Issue 4 now available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fourth issue of Volume 8 of The International Journal of the Book is now available. Volume 8, Issue 4 contains: From Badges to Moveable Type: How Gutenberg Came to Bring Mass Production Technology to the Production of Books by T. Craig Christy. Profound Absences: Genital Lack and Masculine Anxiety in Paul Richer’s “Des Différents Modes De Station [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing the Tenth International Conference on the Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[www.Book-Conference.com 2012 Book Conference Universidad Abat Oliba CEU Barcelona, Spain June 30-July 1, 2012 Call for Papers If you intend to present a paper at the conference, your participation begins by submitting a paper proposal. More information on proposals, presentation types, and other options available here. If your proposal is accepted, you will then need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Society Makes Historical Journal Archives Open Access</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Guardian Beginning today, the historical archives of the peer-reviewed journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, are permanently free to online access from anywhere in the world, according to an announcement by The Royal Society. The Royal Society, established in 1660, began publishing the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society &#8212; world&#8217;s first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Book Reviewers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Common Ground Publishing is seeking distinguished peer reviewers to evaluate book manuscripts submitted to the Books and Publishing Book Series. As part of our commitment to intellectual excellence and a rigorous review process, Common Ground sends book manuscripts that have received initial editorial approval to peer reviewers to further evaluate and provide constructive feedback. The comments and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Socrates you Don&#8217;t Know</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Adam Kirsch, Salon.com via Barns &#38; Nobel Review This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the Loeb Classical Library, one of the most remarkable publishing projects in modern history. Yet as with everything book-related in the year 2011, the Loeb centenary carries with it a touch of wistfulness, and an uncertainty about the future. [...]]]></description>
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