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Colleges aggressively cracking down on downloads of music
By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY.com, 4/27/2003
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-04-27-download_x.htm

" College administrators, under pressure from record labels, have
dramatically stepped up efforts to wean students from downloading
copyrighted music and movie files via high-speed university networks. "
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RIAA to file swappers: Let's chat
By John Borland,  CNET News.com, April 29, 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1025-998825.html

" The recording industry is turning file-swappers' own tools against
them with a new campaign that will send warnings to people who are
offering copyrighted materials online. "
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Record Industry Will Send Warnings to Millions of Users of 2
File-Sharing
Services
By SCOTT CARLSON, Chronicle.com, April 30, 2003
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/04/2003043001t.htm

" The Recording Industry Association of America will begin sending
warning messages directly to millions of users of popular file-sharing
programs, association officials announced on Tuesday. "
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The bewildering new world of scholarly communication: Helping faculty
understand the issues
by Howard M. Dess and Myoung C. Wilson, C&RL News, April 2003, Vol. 64
No. 4
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ACRL/Publications/College_and_Research_Libraries_News/Back_Issues__2003/April1/The_bewildering_new_world_of_scholarly_communication.htm

" In April 2002, ACRL announced that its scholarly communication
initiative would be one of its highest strategic priorities during the
next three years.1 Among other issues, this initiative emphasized the
need for close collaborative partnerships between librarians and other
faculty to improve the current system of scholarly communication. This
report is offered as one such example of a productive alliance between
librarians and faculty members to initiate an informational program at
Rutgers University about scholarly communication issues. "