How well-designed is your state’s flag?
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How well-designed is your state’s flag?
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Rebecca Lawrence discusses how connections across all aspects of the system are needed for open research to flourish and deliver upon its promise.
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Back to SXSW this year! Hear about the conference, the speakers, and the themes. Tell us what resonates with you the most!
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Modern “word processing” programs can do everything from check spelling and grammar to finishing your sentences for you. This might be convenient for the creator, but some “helpful” upgrades can wreak havoc for manuscript editors. In today’s Guest Post, Bruce Rosenblum and Sylvia Izzo Hunter explore the pitfalls of making the comments features less editor friendly.
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Part three of a three-part series aims to discuss the topic of advancing accessibility within scholarly communication with the focus of digital accessibility.
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We’re off through the New Year. Here are some beautiful books to tide you over….
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We don’t talk very much about physical production values for books. What message does that send to readers of scholarly titles?
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Why do US road signs look different from those seen in the rest of the world?
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How do you make a candy cane and how does candy behave as a non-Newtonian fluid?
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A look at recent trends in brand logo design, and why things are becoming simpler.
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This week marks the end of an era, as the iPod is officially discontinued.
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User-centered design provides a model for improving services, but is the history of print holding publishers back?
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Revisiting a 2017 post: The book is asked to perform many tasks, some of which are not necessarily the best use of the book format, whether in print or electronically. The long-form text, which may be print or digital, is a different matter, and is likely to remain with us and be called “a book” for some time to come.
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Minhaj Rais looks at possible solutions for beneficial data mining activities that don’t infringe on user privacy.
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Some Friday Zen as Highlighter markers are made, and a classic trip to the crayon factory is revisited.
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