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- Regarding recent events on Italian Wikipedia
- Why Universities Should Experiment With ‘Massive Open Courses’
- Bookworm: Ngrams Meet the (Open) Library Catalog | Hack Education
- Hats off to the Global Text Project!
- Equal Protection for Shostakovich? Justices Question Lawyers in Copyright Case - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Revenue, Recession, Reliance: case studies in sustainability
- Organ Transplantation in the open-access era
- Otvorený prístup vo východnej Európe
- Open Access Scholarship
- Propiedad intelectual en REBIUN
- Princeton Tells Its Academics Not to Hand Over Copyright When Publishing In Scholarly Journals
- Archivalia_EN
- Issa: DATA Delivers Open Gov't & Federal Spending Transparency - YouTube
- NSF grant will virtualize evidence-based teaching for science and engineering
- Appropriations Bill May Strip Federal Funding for Open Educational Resources | Hack Education
- One Thing Facebook Can Never Do: Flickr Hits 200m Creative Commons Photos
| Regarding recent events on Italian Wikipedia Posted: 06 Oct 2011 06:45 AM PDT Wikimedia blog, (05 Oct 2011) "Today the volunteers of the Italian Wikipedia community made the decision to replace all of Italian Wikipedia with a message to readers about a law (PDF in Italian) being discussed before the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian parliament. The message outlines the viewpoints of the Italian Wikipedia community, and provides details about the proposed bill, and how it threatens the ability to openly collaborate in the sharing of knowledge. This is certainly a decision the Italian Wikipedia community did not take lightly. The Wikimedia Foundation stands with our volunteers in Italy who are challenging the recently drafted “DDL intercettazioni” (or Wiretapping Bill) bill in Italy. This bill would hinder the work of projects like Wikipedia: open, volunteer-driven, and collaborative spaces dedicated to sharing high-quality knowledge, not to mention the ability for all users of the internet to engage in democratic, free speech opportunities...." |
| Why Universities Should Experiment With ‘Massive Open Courses’ Posted: 06 Oct 2011 06:44 AM PDT |
| Bookworm: Ngrams Meet the (Open) Library Catalog | Hack Education Posted: 06 Oct 2011 06:30 AM PDT www.hackeducation.com "Google’s Ngram Viewer promised some interesting insights into a subset of the books that the company had digitized. The tool offered an interactive visualization of a dataset containing more than 500 billion words from some 5.2 million books. By querying the Ngram viewer, you can see how much word usage changes over time. A new tool, called Bookworm released by Harvard’s Cultural Observatory offers another way to interact with digitized book content and full text search. Bookworm doesn’t rely on the Google digitization efforts, but rather uses books in the public domain. It is also less concerned with tracking the history of a word or phrase, but rather helps enable searches of other library metadata, including genre, author information, publication place and date...." |
| Hats off to the Global Text Project! Posted: 06 Oct 2011 06:27 AM PDT College Open Textbooks Blog, (04 Oct 2011) "Everyone knows how expensive textbooks are in the United States, but the cost of textbooks in developing countries is exorbitant for students and their families....The Global Text Project seeks to solve this problem by engaging academic communities to help build a library of free online textbooks. Co-directors, Doctors Richard Watson from the University of Georgia and Donald McCubbrey from University of Denver, established the non-profit organization in 2006. The project uses an open-source infrastructure to publish free electronic textbooks online with a Creative Commons 3.0 BY license....With a grant from the Jacobs foundation awarded in 2008, the project ramped up book production. In 2010, the project created a competitive internship program for students interested in learning about electronic publishing at the University of Georgia...." |
| Posted: 06 Oct 2011 06:23 AM PDT chronicle.com "At issue in the case, Golan v. Holder, No. 10-545, is whether Congress can remove works from the public domain and place them back under copyright protection....[T]he U.S. Supreme Court...heard oral arguments [on the case Wednesday October 5 2011]...." |
| Revenue, Recession, Reliance: case studies in sustainability Posted: 06 Oct 2011 04:51 AM PDT Strategic Content Alliance blog, (06 Oct 2011) "Ithaka S+R, with funding from the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance, released today “Revenue, Recession, Reliance: Revisiting the SCA/Ithaka S+R Case Studies in Sustainability”, a report that reviews the impact of tumultuous times on the business models of 12 digital projects first profiled by Ithaka S+R in 2009....One of the key findings to emerge is that many of these projects are relying on their host institutions for support to an even greater extent than two years ago....The report notes that difficult economic times have called for deep across-the-board spending cuts at many organisations, which can deny digital resource projects the capital investment they need just as they are beginning to grow. Many of the projects studied had the intention of contributing revenue to their host, but only some were successful in doing so, and even those were unable to fully support their ongoing costs....The cases covered include scholar-led initiatives (Electronic Enlightenment, eBird, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, the National Science Digital Library MSP2: Middle School Math and Science Pathway, the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae), library and museum projects (The National Archives, L’Institut national de l’audiovisuel, the University of Southampton Library Digitisation Unit, V&A Images), and publishing projects (Hindawi, DigiZeitschriften) with a diverse range of revenue models (e.g., subscription-based projects, endowment-funded resources, and open access digital libraries)...." |
| Organ Transplantation in the open-access era Posted: 06 Oct 2011 02:41 AM PDT Journal of Transplantation Technologies & Research, (26 Sep 2011) From this Editorial on the Journal of Transplantation Technologies and Research (JTTR), a new peer reviewed open access journal: rapid expansion in research related to transplantation technology and the growing number of centers and investigators dedicated to this field has led to an increasing requirement for proper channels for the dissemination of information. The digital format will allow readers to explore novel features such as the delivery of published articles instantly to computer or portable devices twenty-four hours a day, listening to audio versions of the published material, translation of published works to over 50 languages using the journal’s website and the possibility of sharing their opinion via numerous social networking sites. |
| Otvorený prístup vo východnej Európe Posted: 06 Oct 2011 02:32 AM PDT ITlib. Informačné technológie a knižnice, (21 Sep 2011) Abstract: The paper covers open access benefits for researchers, research institutions and publishers as well as highlights the changing role of libraries in evolving scholarly communication environment. Information about Eastern European open access journals and open access repositories is presented to encourage open access developments in Slovakia. The paper also highlights open access policies in the European Union and presents the OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) project e-infrastructure and a network of experts to support the researchers towards meeting the demands of the EC open access policies. |
| Posted: 05 Oct 2011 04:43 PM PDT A central Central University, (02 Oct 2011) "Some years ago, Prof. Shalini Urs of the University of Mysore made a concerted effort to aggregate one aspect of Indian scholarship through the Vidyanidhi project. Vidyanidhi (Meaning ‘Treasure of Knowledge’ in Sanskrit) is India’s premier Digital library initiative to facilitate the creation, archiving and accessing of doctoral theses. Vidyanidhi is an information infrastructure, a digital library, a portal of resources, tools and facilities for doctoral research in India. Vidyanidhi is envisioned to evolve as a national repository and a consortium for e-theses through participation and partnership with universities, academic institutions and other stake holders. Vidyanidhi enhances access to Indian theses and enlarges the reach and audience for Indian doctoral research works. Sadly, this has not worked as well as it should have....However, the UGC [University Grants Commission] has now stepped in, and made it mandatory that University theses be made available online, though not necessarily in one place, thereby (and as usual) frittering away our scholarship in dribs and drabs...." |
| Propiedad intelectual en REBIUN Posted: 05 Oct 2011 04:39 PM PDT |
| Princeton Tells Its Academics Not to Hand Over Copyright When Publishing In Scholarly Journals Posted: 05 Oct 2011 04:35 PM PDT PHP Hosts, (05 Oct 2011) |
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| Issa: DATA Delivers Open Gov't & Federal Spending Transparency - YouTube Posted: 05 Oct 2011 04:08 PM PDT |
| NSF grant will virtualize evidence-based teaching for science and engineering Posted: 05 Oct 2011 03:16 PM PDT www.physorg.com "Harvard University and The University of Texas at Austin have received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop open access research-based tools for advancing learning in science and engineering...." |
| Appropriations Bill May Strip Federal Funding for Open Educational Resources | Hack Education Posted: 05 Oct 2011 01:58 PM PDT www.hackeducation.com "The House Appropriations Committee has just released the draft of the bill that would fund the Departments of Labor, Education and Health and Human Services for the 2012 fiscal year. There’s a lot to wade through, but tucked into a paragraph on page 37 is wording that appears to prevent the Department of Labor from supporting any further funding in open educational resources (OER)....." |
| One Thing Facebook Can Never Do: Flickr Hits 200m Creative Commons Photos Posted: 05 Oct 2011 01:55 PM PDT Comments for One Thing Facebook Can Never Do: Flickr Hits 200m Creative Commons Photos, (05 Oct 2011) "Flickr announced today that it has hit 200 million Creative Commons licensed photos, making it the world's largest CC photo collection...." |
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