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British Library still doesn’t get it
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| The BBC has a belated but fawning story today, Just click for a century of
| news:
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| The British Library has put two million digitised pages from 19th century
| newspapers online, taking research out of its dusty reading rooms into
| people’s homes.
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| The pay-as-you-go service brings a century of history alive from Jack the
| Ripper to WC Grace. (etc)
|
| Ah. So, “just click”, eh? What use is this to most of us? Access for the
| privileged only, it seems. Can you imagine any of us paying for this?
|
| But there is more, and worse, at the British Library site, where the new
| government “Digital Britain” report is discussed.
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http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/?p=1892
Don’t Hide your: Research, Share it!
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| Technology is slowly allowing scientists to take information distribution
| back into their own hands as demonstrated by OpenWetWare.org. Not only does
| it allow researchers to publish bits of information that do not fit in with
| the conventional channels of journals but it also serves as a platform to
| interact with other researchers in an environment that is not owned by a
| profit-seeking company.
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http://www.lab-times.org/labtimes/issues/lt2009/lt02/lt_2009_02_54_55.pdf
Student Statement on The Right to Research
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| Scholarly knowledge is part of the common wealth of humanity.
|
| Unfortunately, not everyone has access to the scholarly literature, despite
| advances in communications technology. The high cost of academic journals
| restricts access to knowledge; in some fields, prices can reach $20,000 for a
| single journal subscription1 or $30 for an individual article.2 Despite
| these high prices, authors of scholarly articles are not paid for their work.
| The profits from these publications go solely to the publishers of the
| journals. A vast amount of research is funded from public sources – yet
| taxpayers are locked out by the cost of access.
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http://www.righttoresearch.org/
The Master List of Free Language Learning Resources
http://universitiesandcolleges.org/language-learning-resources/
OPSI’s new licensing model – taking the licensing of government content to the
next level
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| The Government’s response to the Power of Information Taskforce’s
| recommendation 8 stated that OPSI was developing a new licence model,
| building on the success of the Click-Use Licence. We thought it would be
| good to post our initial thoughts about what the new licence terms could look
| like here on our blog for your comments.
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http://perspectives.opsi.gov.uk/2009/06/opsis-new-licensing-model-taking-the-licensing-of-government-content-to-the-next-level.html
Reclaim The Commons: A Manifesto
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| As long-suffering readers of this blog will have noticed, I rather like the
| concept of the commons. As well as being good in itself, it also provides a
| way of linking many disparate fields - software, content, data, knowledge,
| fisheries, forests, oceans, the atmosphere. That's not really surprising,
| since the thing these all have in, er, common is that we share them, and the
| commons offers a model for sharing without destroying.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/06/reclaim-commons-manifesto.html
Using Wikisource as an Alternative Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship
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| There are plenty of sites in the world that aim to serve as repositories for
| legal scholarship. Some of them are run by particular law schools and serve
| to advertise scholarship produced by that institution’s faculty. Others, like
| SSRN, aggregate scholarship from a variety of sources. Wikisource differs
| from all of them in that its mission is broader: Wikisource doesn’t want to
| be a scholarly archive, it wants to be a library. The very breadth and
| generality of that objective, however, gives Wikisource some advantages as an
| open-access repository that I don’t think have been adequately explored
| elsewhere.
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http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2009/06/19/using-wikisource-as-an-alternative-open-access-repository-for-legal-scholarship/
OA journal ranks #1 in its field for impact
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| The OA impact advantage helps journals, not just authors. TA journals may
| have their reasons not to convert to OA, but they can't pretend that there's
| nothing in the other pan of the scale.
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http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/06/oa-journal-ranks-1-in-its-field-for.html
Proposed Rules On Public Research In South Africa Stir Debate
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| But the negative impact of the regulations far outweigh any benefits, the
| project argued. The draft rules focus on the use of patenting and other forms
| of IP protection to commercialise research in the interests of innovation, it
| said, adding that they are “hostile to, or at the very least suspicious of,
| open source and open processes.”
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/06/04/proposed-rules-on-public-research-in-south-africa-stir-debate/
Recent:
The world’s first Open Access Mandate?
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| In the process of writing something about the current state of Open Access
| (OA) mandates I became intrigued by the mandate introduced at Geneva-based
| particle physics laboratory CERN.
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http://poynder.blogspot.com/2009/06/worlds-first-open-access-mandate.html
United Nation launches world's first free online university
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| For hundreds of millions of people around the world higher education is no
| more than a dream. The United Nations hope to make this dream a reality with
| their global tuition-free online University.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25650/1054/
United Nations using Drupal
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| 117 million people participated in the United Nations' Anti-Poverty event,
| and it was organized on a Drupal site: http://www.standagainstpoverty.org/.
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http://buytaert.net/united-nations-using-drupal-3
United Nations University urges legislators to support open source software
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| United Nations University (UNU-MERIT) experts urge parliamentarians to
| support open source software and information technologies as a way to let
| citizens participate meaningfully in the information society. They also
| emphasize that policy markers should consider information and communications
| technologies from a social rather than technical viewpoint.
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http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/unumerit007
UN agency and Microsoft plan increased collaboration
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| The head of the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
| and the Chairman of Microsoft Bill Gates have discussed enhancing their
| collaboration on using information technology to spur development around the
| world.
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http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27172&Cr=&Cr1=
UN think tank urges legislators to support 'open source' information
technologies, software
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| "Participation in, not just access to, the information society is important"
| Ghosh told the UN event, attended by members of parliament from over 40
| countries. "Open source software gives people fishing rods, not just fish."
|
| “The main issue here is a plea for open standards as they guarantee
| competition,” says Prof. Luc Soete, Director of Maastricht-based UNU-MERIT,
| underlining the importance of this topic to the Institute’s work. Recently
| published UNU-MERIT studies demonstrate the strong role of open source
| software in skills development.
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/unu-utt051608.php
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
Related:
Technical support for open source system now in GenSan
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| Dr. Francisco Sarmiento III, project officer of the United Nations
| Development Programme-International Open Source Network (UNDO-IOSN) Asean+3
| Sub-regional Node, said local small and medium enterprises (SMEs), government
| and non-government organizations migrating towards the free and open source
| software (FOSS) may now link up for support with the Mindanao State
| University's (MSU) Computer Center here.
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http://www.mindanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3455&Itemid=50
UN partners with MSU-Gensan for dev't of 1st Foss center
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| A United Nations (UN)-funded organization promoting the use of the free and
| open source software (Foss) has forged a partnership with the Mindanao State
| University (MSU) for the development of Southeast Asia's first OpenHUB or
| accessible FOSS resource center.
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http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/gen/2007/12/03/bus/un.partners.with.msu.gensan.for.dev.t.of.1st.foss.center.html
http://tinyurl.com/2r3d26
Talking FOSS at the UN
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| Weesner says that despite the fact that speakers like Stallman and Cooper
| were well-received last year, "This year [the delegates] expressed a wish to
| hear more from real-world users instead of the technologists and advocates.
| This year's agenda does not include open source software developers, apart
| from Chris DiBona, who will be representing the Google case." Other
| unconfirmed guest speakers include Virgin America, SchoolNet Namibia, and
| Banco do Brasil.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/119609
UN body releases desktop Linux guide
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| A UN-funded organisation has produced a Linux desktop
| user guide to encourage the take-up of Linux in
| developing countries
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39164367,00.htm
UN Technical Agency Honors Mozilla
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| This is an enormous honor. It is a very significant recognition
| of the work of the Mozilla project. I want to thank the ITU for
| selecting Mozilla and congratulate the Mozilla community for
| making such an impact in people's online lives.
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http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2007/06/un_technical_agency_honors_moz.html
UN body releases desktop Linux guide
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| A UN-funded organisation has produced a Linux desktop
| user guide to encourage the take-up of Linux in
| developing countries
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39164367,00.htm
Editor's Corner (on Open Source in Healthcare)
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| Suggesting that a private healthcare provider switch from
| proprietary software to open source-based applications is one
| thing. But when an official affiliated with as august a body as
| the United Nations suggests that all member countries adopt open
| source for their healthcare applications, that's a much bigger deal.
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http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/editor-s-corner/2006-10-09
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