Josh Hadro has a new post discussing the Google Book Settlement rejection from the perspectives of librarians. From the post:
What librarians can look forward to instead: a renewed commitment from library advocates to make more content accessible to scholars and to the general public, whether via an alternative settlement agreement or legislative recourse.
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Tagged copy right, copyright, Google's Settlement, Internet, library, openness, policy, public domain
Pieter Klymeer has a new post announcing OERbit, a platform for publishing OER. From the post:
Open.Michigan upgraded its website to a Drupal-based system. After some bug-fixing, optimizing, and generalizing, we are now releasing the code to the public under an open-source license.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, higher education, Internet, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Alex Williams has a new post noting that wiki software turns 16 today. From the post:
In the 1990s, there was a vision of the read/write Web. But most sites were static with little or no interactivity.
The wiki helped transform the Web into an experience that is as much about writing to a page as it is about reading it.
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Tagged commons, Internet, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Paul Jump has published an article on green OA as “electronic buckets”. From the post:
…repositories are essentially “electronic buckets” with no quality control. He also expressed doubts that the academy would be able to successfully introduce peer review to such repositories, partly because it would be difficult to attract reviewers who had no “brand allegiance” to the repositories.
Link and commentary by Leslie Carr.
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Tagged higher education, Internet, OATP, open access, research
Dr. William Gunn has a new post announcing a contest to build an app that for Mendeley’s database. From the post:
We at Mendeley have now built the world’s largest open research catalog, containing over 70 million documents. This is no small feat, considering we’ve only been at it for about 2 years, and we couldn’t have done it without you (nearly a million of you!).
Note: This article has been changed to reflect comments made below.
Glyn Moody has a new post on the changing mission of Mozilla. From the post:
Indeed, it’s becoming clear that Web apps lie at the heart of the strategy for Mozilla.
Timothy Vollmer has posted an interview with Nick Shockey,Director of the Right to Research Coalition (R2RC). From the post:
“Paying $30 for access to one article is expensive even for many researchers in the U.S.,” says Nick, “but when you realize that $30 is an entire average month’s wage in Malawi, you can see the huge disparities in access faced by huge swaths of people around the world.”
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Tagged e-learning, Internet, journal, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Richard Poynder has posted an interview with Derk Haank, CEO of Spring Science and Business Media. From the interview:
Librarians need to accept that if they want access to a continually growing database, then costs will need to go up a little bit but not like in the days of the serials crisis. We try to accommodate our customers, but at a certain point, we will hit a wall.
Link and commentary by Barbara Fister.
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Tagged higher education, Internet, journal, library, OATP, open access, openness
Esteban L. Hernandez has a new post noting that Pricewaterhouse Coopers has established its own “open university.” From the post:
Officially launched August 4, the site and its content are still very much in early stages of development. Some topics only contain only a single ‘course,’ and could probably use additional material to strengthen the topic.
Link and commentary by Stephen Downes.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, Internet, online learning, openness
Mike Masnick has a new post discussing recent support by Harvard Crimson staff to get tougher on copyright infringement at Harvard. From the post:
Most people create and innovate not to get “intellectual property” but because they want to create and get work out there, or because they have a general need to innovate.
