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URLazy.com. Forbes Magazine, May 15, 2000.

Students should not sell notes. The Oracle, April 28, 2000.

Online Notes Frustrate Faculty. The Oracle, April 25, 2000.

Big Dot-Com on Campus. The San Diego Union-Tribune, April 20, 2000.

University4sale-dot-com. Footnotes, ASA newsletter, April 2000.

CollegeClub.com Acquires Versity.com; Deal Brings Online Class Notes to CollegeClub.com Members. Business Wire, April 19, 2000.

Rice University says no to online notes; University of Houston inactive. The Daily Cougar, April 18, 2000.

Notes notes. The State Hornet, April 12, 2000.

Online lecture sites cause angst in academia. The Dartmouth, April 5, 2000.

Commercial notes sites must be curtailed. Montana Kaimin, April 4, 2000.

University should follow Yale's lead on commercial notes. Letter to the Editor. The Stanford Daily, April 3, 2000.

Yale forces Versity.com to drop its lecture notes. Stanford Daily, March 29, 2000.

Web site offers cash for classroom note-taking. State Hornet, March 29, 2000.

Versity to keep Yale notes ofline. Yale Daily News, March 28, 2000.

Versity.com getting noticed at Western Kentucky U. College Heights Herald, March 28, 2000.

Long-standing policy keeps Versity.com off Princeton campus. The Daily Princetonian, March 27, 2000.

Versity surveys as meeting approaches. Yale Daily News, March 23, 2000.

All About the Benjamins. The Daily Pennsylvanian, March 22, 2000.

Yale leads the fight against notes companies. Yale Daily News, March 20, 2000.

A New Class of Passing Notes: Internet Postings-For-Pay Unnerve Schools. Chicago Tribune, March 19, 2000.

Discussion on the commercialization of education [in German]. Telepolis.

Faculty Council to Discuss Versity.com. Rice Thresher, March 17, 2000.

Universities take various actions against notes sites. The Rice Thresher, March 17, 2000.

E-commerce intrudes on higher education. Letter to the editor. Brown Daily Herald, March 15, 2000.

Posting lecture notes is theft. Letter. Minnesota Daily, March 15, 2000.

Online companies turning education into a business. The Digital Collegian, March 13, 2000.

Class For Sale. Staff Editorial. Brown Daily Herald, March 13, 2000.

Online notes hurt education system. Letter to the editor. Indiana Daily Student, March 10, 2000.

Online notes: Promise and peril. Letter to the Editor. The Daily Pennsylvanian, March 10, 2000.

Online Notes Threaten Integrity. Staff editorial. Columbia Daily Spectator, March 09, 2000.

CU Profs. Object to Online Note Service. Columbia Daily Spectator, March 09, 2000.

Dot-Coms in Our Lecture Halls. Harvard Crimson, March 9, 2000.

University of Pennsylvania examines legality of online note firm. Daily Pennsylvanian, March 9, 2000.

Firm offers notes from University of Montana classes over the Internet. Montana Kaimin, March 8, 2000.

Visiting Yale history professor Bernard Porter explains why he doesn't want to be represented on the net by a student's lecture notes. The Guardian (London), March 7, 2000.

Professors voice concerns over online note firm. The Daily Pennsylvanian, March 6, 2000.

Critics of online-notes ban argue free speech. Minnesota Daily News, March 6, 2000.

Internet class notes may be undermining the very foundation of university structure. Campus Press (Boulder), March 5, 2000.

Truth, Profit, and the American Way. Yale Daily News, March 2, 2000.

Versity Blues. Yale Herald, March 2, 2000.

Faculty discuss constitutionality of online notes. Minnesota Daily, March 1, 2000.

Letter to the Editor. The Battalion, February 29, 2000.

Versity.com agrees to remove Yale notes. Yale Daily News, Feb. 28, 2000.

Policy bans U. Minnesota students' use of online notes. Minnesota Daily, February 25, 2000.

Judge bans note-taking service from U. California system. Daily Californian, February 25, 2000.

Students shouldn't post notes on versity.com. Yale Daily News, February 24, 2000.

Student use of note taking service raises concerns. The George Washington Hatchet, February 24, 2000.

Web site maneuvering to post lecture notes. Kansas State Collegian, February 22, 2000.

'U' Debates Online Notes For Pay Includes video segment () and online discussion. Channel 4000, February 8, 2000.

Online note services lure students, rile professors. The Star Tribune (Minneapolis), February 7, 2000.

Class notes available online. Indiana Daily Student, February 3, 2000.

The Uzone Launches New College Web Site Hub. PR Newswire, February 1, 2000.

Online lecture notes spark concerns. USA Today, February 2, 2000.

Online Class Notes Stir Up Controversy. The Associated Press, January 31, 2000.

The most meaningful lessons can't be learned online. The Rocky Mountain Collegian, January 31, 2000.

StudentU.com... Announces First Acquisition... PR Newswire, January 31, 2000.

Company breaks KU´s advertising policy. The Kansan, January 28, 2000.

Throw out your notebook: Online class notes... Dispatches, January 26, 2000.

Legality of professional note-takers still unclear to many. The Kansan, January 24, 2000.

Web sites 'taking' notes: College profs rip companies. The Denver Post, January 23, 2000.

Legality, reliability of note services come into question. Michigan Daily, January 20, 2000.

Take This Down: Unauthorized Lecture-Note Sites Draw Profs’ Fire. Village Voice, January 19-25, 2000 (Special on education).

Debate over Web lecture notes continues... The California Aggie, January 13, 2000.

For sale: A prof's intellectual property or just the facts? USA Today, January 13, 2000.

Study24-7.com Partners... PR Newswire, January 11, 2000.

Rival sites take lecture notes to cyberspace. The Associated Press, January 11, 2000.
 

1999

Note-Posting Foes Return Fire. ASC Statelines (AAUP newsletter), Winter, 1999.

Online notes companies lack accountability. Michigan Daily, December 13, 1999.

Colleges Attack Online Notes. Jose Mercury News, Sunday, December 12, 1999.

University of Michigan officials still leery of online notes. Michigan Daily, December 7, 1999.

Internet cheating battles. The Orion, December 1, 1999.

Teacher upset over note site. Red and Black, November 30, 1999.

Colleges Weigh Legal Action Against Web Sites That Publish Lecture Notes. Chronicle of Higher Education, November 26, 1999.

Notetakers turn profit: Controversial websites will pay students for lecture notes. Oregon Daily Emerald, November 23, 1999.

University of Michigan faculty to examine course notes on the Web. Michigan Daily, November 23, 1999.

Professors battle commercial note-takers. University Daily Kansan, November 11, 1999.

Keohane suggests look at online notes. The Chronicle, November 5, 1999.

Net discourse (editorial). Cavalier Daily, November 2, 1999.

Versity.com Shouldn't Have Right to Distribute Class Notes. Staff Editorial. Harvard Crimson, November 1, 1999.

Professors Call Online Service for Class Notes Dishonest. Harvard Crimson, October 28, 1999.

Online note-taking sites spark legal. The Yale Daily News, October 28, 1999.

Versity getting stronger: After much controversy.... The Kentucky Kernel, October 28, 1999.

Professor Wary of Online Notes. The Digital Collegian, October 21, 1999.

Notes on Internet helpful, ethical? Kentucky Kernel, October 21, 1999.

Lecture notes belong to instructors. UCLA Daily Bruin, October 12, 1999.

Online lecture notes harm student-teacher relationships. Letter. Stanford Daily, October 10, 1999.

Administrators want to take Web site note service offline. Daily Bruin, UCLA, October 7, 1999.

Armed With a Web Site and Links, a Professor Takes On Lecture-Notes Companies. The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 6, 1999.

Online Lecture Notes Spark Controversy at U. Maryland. The Diamondback, October 6, 1999.

Online course notes draw fire. The Chronicle, October 20, 1999.

Teacher Fights Internet Note Piracy. The Purdue Exponent, October 15, 1999.

Faculty member questions online notes. The Purdue Exponent, October 5, 1999.

Academics condemn web sites selling classroom notes. Cavalier Daily, October 4, 1999.

The Educational Costs of Free Notes on the Internet. The Stanford Review, October 1999.

Class Notes on 'Net. Cincinnati Post, November 4, 1999.

Students, faculty react to Duke presence of versity.com. The Chronicle (Duke), October 20, 1999.

Posted Notes: The Web is changing the ethics of education. The Dallas Morning News, October 19, 1999.

Web Snares Lazy Students: Collegians who rely on Internet class notes getting shortchanged. San Francisco Chronicle, October 18, 1999.

Online study sites taking heat for taking notes. The Daily, October 12, 1999.

Online Note Services Concern Washington State U. Daily Evergreen, September 30, 1999.

Profs Question Benefits of Using Course Cyber-notes at U. Illinois. Colorado Daily, September 28, 1999.

Online Class Fraught With Glitches. Daily Californian.

U. Arizona Faculty, Lawyer Question Legality of Online Note Services. Arizona Daily Wildcat, September 27, 1999.

Ohio U. Professors React to Web Lecture Notes. The Post, September 28, 1999.

With online notes, you too can be socially starved. Yale Herald, September 24, 1999.

Online lecture notes are going way off line. The Daily Iowan, September 23, 1999.

Take note: Not all professors welcome commercial ventures. Kansan.com, September 22, 1999.

StudyFree's Online Notes Raise Questions of Ethics, Accuracy. Daily O'Collegian, September 22, 1999.

Online Lecture Note Sites Make Going to Class a Thing of the Past. Daily Collegian, September 23, 1999.

Note taking errors dice GPA. The State Press, September 16, 1999.

MU course notes appear on Web sites without professors' consent. The Maneater, September 14, 1999.

Free College Notes on Web. New York Times, September 9, 1999.

Versity.com takes advantage of student notetakers. The Chronicle, September 6 1999.

A changing landscape (editorial). The Chronicle (at Duke), September 3, 1999.

Note sharing moves into tech age with versity.com. The Chronicle, September 1, 1999.

College life a whole new e-world. USA Today, August 19, 1999.

Web site offers chance to make money for taking notes. The Arbiter, February 24, 1999.

Take note: Services may encourage cutting class. Michigan Daily, February 11, 1999.

Websites offer free study aids. Michigan Daily, February 2, 1999.

Versity.com new competitor in local note-taking services. Daily Illini Reporter, January 26, 1999.

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