Open Access bill vetoed
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| Supporters of the open access movement (OA), the open-source-inspired
| community that promotes free access to academic research, are disappointed
| but not discouraged by the defeat of a bill that would have required research
| published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States to
| be available to the public.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/121605
Related:
Free Online Materials Could Save Schools Billions
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| Colleges for years have tapped open source materials, with instructors
| designing and giving away material such as lecture notes and exams. The
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology boasts that virtually its entire
| catalog is available through "open courseware."
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/60200.html
OUP wants me to pay for my own Open Access article
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| The journal wishes to charge me 48 USD to:
|
| * USE MY OWN ARTICLE
| * ON WHICH I HOLD COPYRIGHT
| * FOR NON-COMMERCIAL PURPOSES (TEACHING)
|
| The journal is therefore
|
| * SELLING MY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
| * WITHOUT MY PERMISSION
| * AGAINST THE TERMS OF THE LICENCE (NO COMMERCIAL USE)
|
| I am lost for words...
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http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=529
A Quest to Get More Court Rulings Online, and Free
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| The domination of two legal research services over the publication of federal
| and state court decisions is being challenged by an Internet gadfly who has
| embarked on an ambitious project to make more than 10 million pages of case
| law available free online.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/technology/20westlaw.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
'The New York Times' drops online subscription service
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| The New York Times has finally given up on the Web-subscription model,
| announcing Monday that the newspaper's online site will no longer charge for
| any content.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9780063-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Libraries Defend Open Access
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| In an open letter last month, Rockefeller University Press castigated the
| publishers' sock-puppet outfit, PRISM, for using distorting rhetoric in a
| coordinated PR attack on open access. N
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/08/1739235&from=rss
News Corp undecided on making WSJ.com free
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| "It would be a very expensive thing to do in the short term," Murdoch told
| analysts on a telephone conference call to discuss News Corp's quarterly
| earnings. "In the long term, it may be a wonderful thing to do, but we're
| looking at it very closely."
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070808/media_nm/newscorp_results_journal_dc
The Land of "Nothing for free"
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| I was down there to give a talk on "Open Source Business Models"
| for a conference. Also represented were entertainment industry
| lawyers, "Big Telecom" management, and a smattering of software
| people. Microsoft was there of course. You can't hold a church
| fete with "Open Source" on the banner these days without Microsoft
| turning up and requesting representation. At least we also had
| Bruce Perens on our side to help make up the balance. The venue
| eas an unbelievably expensive hotel. Even though I was on
| expenses I balked at asking the company to pay for a room
| there and found something cheaper (not by much) a few miles
| down the road.
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http://samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/column11.html
Academia's Open Access movement mirrors FOSS community
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| Free and open source software (FOSS) has roots in the ideals of academic
| freedom and the unimpeded exchange of information. In the last five years,
| the concepts have come full circle, with FOSS serving as a model for Open
| Access (OA), a movement within academia to promote unrestricted access to
| scholarly material for both researchers and the general public.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/118139
Announcing the Open Library
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| Early this year, when I left my job at Wired Digital, I thought I could look
| forward to months of lounging around San Francisco, reading books on the
| beach and drinking fine champagne and eating foie gras. Then I got a phone
| call. Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive was thinking of pursuing a
| project that I'd been trying to do literally for years.
|
| [...]
|
| So today I'm extraordinarily proud to announce the Open Library project. Our
| goal is to build the world's greatest library,
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http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/openlibrary
Berkman Center and CALI Partner to Create New Legal Education Resource
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| “We are looking forward to renewing a fruitful relationship with Harvard Law
| School through the Legal Education Commons project, which will provide
| innovative tools and access to open-licensed course materials to our more
| than 200 member law schools” said CALI Executive Director John Mayer.
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http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/newsroom/pressreleases/berkman_center_and_cali_partner_to_create_new_legal_education_resource
Wikipedia Founder Joins EC Open Access Campaign
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| Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he signed a petition calling
| on the European Commission to give the public open access to
| taxpayer-funded scientific research because it was "simple and
| obvious" that the public should have access to research they
| had funded. "Public money should result in public benefit,"
| he added.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/56443.html
Push for open access to research
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| "Cancer patients seeking information on new treatments or parents
| searching for the latest on childhood development issues were often
| denied access to the research they indirectly fund through their
| taxes"
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6404429.stm
Elsevier duo say the future is open
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| Two senior publishers have departed Elsevier and joined rival Biomed
| Central, placing their bets on an open access future for scientific
| research.
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http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2171597/elsevier-duo-say-future-open
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