Introducing Document Freedom Day
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| The Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for Document Liberation with
| grassroots action for promotion of Free Document Formats and Open Standards
| in general. The DFD was initiated and is supported by a group of
| organisations and companies, including, but not limited to the Free Software
| Foundation Europe, ODF Alliance, OpenForum Europe, IBM, Red Hat and Sun
| Microsystems, Inc.
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http://documentfreedom.org/News/20080220
Impossible thing #2: Comprehensive free knowledge repositories like Wikipedia
and Project Gutenberg
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| The size of Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg present serious challenges to our
| understanding and to the relative scales of these works compared to the great
| works of individuals, corporations, governments. As a means of grounding our
| perception in reality, it is useful to construct a logarithmic chart,
| spanning many orders of magnitude.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/impossible_thing_2_comprehensive_free_knowledge_repositories_wikipedia_and_project_gutenberg
Related:
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
Harvard Research to Be Free Online
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| Harvard University will soon begin posting research and articles produced by
| its faculty on the Internet free of charge.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/books/14arts-HARVARDRESEA_BRF.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
UN University Launches OpenCourseWare
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| It seems a no-brainer that the United Nations University (yes, it exists)
| should make available its courses for the world and her dog to use...
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/02/un-university-launches-opencourseware.html
OA and universities as intellectual infrastructure
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| Gavin Baker, Free Culture and the University: Innovation, Information
| Sharing, and the Future of the Academy, a presentation at Knowledge Rights
| and Information Sharing in the 21st Century (University of Central Florida,
| January 30 - February 1, 2008). Excerpt from slides:
|
| [...]
|
| The Free University
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| * Open access to research publications & proceedings
| * Open access to research data
| * Open educational resources
| * Free & open source software
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http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/02/oa-and-universities-as-intellectual.html
Related:
Universities Worldwide Offer Free Open Courseware
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| More than 100 universities worldwide - including Johns Hopkins, Tufts and
| Notre Dame - have joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in a
| consortium of schools promoting open courseware.
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http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009575178
MIT digitizes its courses, throws them online
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| MIT this week announced an important digital achievement: the completion of
| its pioneering OpenCourseWare project. And everyone involved seems quite
| happy with being unsure about why exactly it's important.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/112907-mit-digitizes-courses.html
MIT OpenCourseWare expands for high school students
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| The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is taking on the issue of
| inadequate education for youth by extending its OpenCourseWare (OCW) program
| to include secondary level students.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9825103-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
OUP wants me to pay for my own Open Access article
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| The journal wishes to charge me 48 USD to:
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| * USE MY OWN ARTICLE
| * ON WHICH I HOLD COPYRIGHT
| * FOR NON-COMMERCIAL PURPOSES (TEACHING)
|
| The journal is therefore
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| * 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
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
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