PLOS ONE: The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era
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The possibility to increase profits in such an extreme fashion lies in the peculiarity of the economics of scholarly publishing. Unlike usual suppliers, authors provide their goods without financial compensation and consumers (i.e. readers) are isolated from the purchase. Because purchase and use are not directly linked, price fluctuations do not influence demand. Academic libraries, contributing 68% to 75% of journal publishing revenues, are atypical buyers because their purchases are mainly controlled by budgets. Regardless of their information needs, they have to manage with less as prices increase. Due to the publisher’s oligopoly, libraries are more or less helpless, for in scholarly publishing each product represents a unique value and cannot be replaced.
All you need to know about rounded typefaces
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What is it about rounded terminals that’s so transformative of a basic non-rounded design? The tone lightens to one that’s friendly, fun and casual. Rounded fonts seem to set aside some of the complexity of a letter shape, leaving behind just a set of simple strokes.
Building the dConstruct 2015 site
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Start with the mark-up then add in the stuff...
Want a Better Pitch? Watch This. — Firm Narrative — Medium
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Never start a pitch by talking about yourself, your team, your product, or your total addressable market. Instead, start by naming the thing that’s getting in the way of your customer’s happiness. Do that by painting an emotionally resonant picture of how the world currently sucks for your customer, who/what is to blame, and why.
Frictionless product design — Remains of the Day
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Minimalist design is about reducing the surface area of an experience. Frictionless design is about reducing the energy required by an experience.
Designing in the dark: How we created the Guardian App for Apple Watch | Info | ...
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On the readability of inverted color schemes - Joe Dolson Accessible Web Design
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Left vs. Right (US) | Information Is Beautiful
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REST-ful URI design | 2PartsMagic Blog
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This post is about URI naming. Designing URI names. Some tips and rules and conventions that you can follow when figuring out your application’s URIs. The focus is on URIs for ‘REST-ful’ applications. But many of the tips apply to any kind of website or application.
Knowledge units
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There are two models of online education: 1. Preparatory knowledge, in the form of course-based video-delivered teachings: Coursera, Udacity, Thinkful, etc. 2. On demand knowledge: Wikipedia, StackOverflow, Genius, etc. Of the two, the latter has been much more widely spread and far more influential.
Fall of the Banner Ad: The Monster That Swallowed the Web - NYTimes.com
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Twenty years ago last month, a team of well-meaning designers, coders and magazine publishers inadvertently unleashed on an unsuspecting world one of the most misguided and destructive technologies of the Internet age: the web banner ad.