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Harvard to digitize Chinese rare book collection
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| One of the most extensive collections of rare
| Chinese books outside of China will be digitized
| and made freely available to scholars worldwide
| as part of a six-year cooperative project
| between Harvard College Library (HCL) and the
| National Library of China (NLC). ...
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http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/10/harvard-to-digitize-chinese-rare-book.html
ABC chief champions 'free' online content
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| ABC managing director and tweeting Web 2.0
| aficionado Mark Scott will maintain the public
| broadcasters' policy of free online content, and
| says traditional publishers like Rupert
| Murdochâs News Limited and Fairfax plan to
| charge fees for content is unrealistic.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/28518/53/
OpenFlights data released under Open Database License (ODbL)
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| OpenFlights is a site for âflight logging,
| mapping, stats and sharingâ.
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http://blog.okfn.org/2009/10/14/openflights-data-released-under-open-database-license-odbl/
Stitching science together
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| Google Wave is the kind of open-source online
| collaboration tool that should drive scientists
| to wire their research and publications into an
| interactive data web, says Cameron Neylon.
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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7266/full/461881a.html
Recent:
Welcome to the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #138
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| I want to celebrate the progress of OA journals and the launch
| of the OASPA by setting out what I see as the 10 greatest
| challenges facing OA journals. I want to do this without
| pretending to set the association agenda and without
| presupposing that association members don't already know these
| challenges very well. I'm not a member of the association or
| even a publisher. I merely want to see OA journals succeed.
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http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/10-02-09.htm
Better world: Share things
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| Looking for a romantic way to do your bit for the
| planet? Then move in with your lover, take baths
| together and snuggle up on the sofa to watch TV
| together.
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| An awful lot of energy could be saved if only people
| shared things more, especially their homes. The evidence
| comes from the opposite end of the love spectrum.
| According to a recent study, if all the couples who
| divorced in the US had stayed together, in 2005 alone
| they would have used 2373 billion litres less water and
| 73 billion kilowatt-hours less electricity. Each
| divorced person spent 46 per cent more on electricity
| and 56 per cent more on water.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327261.700-better-world-share-things.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
At End of Act II: Are we Played for Fools OR Building a Enlightened Digital World?
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| This would be the World Wide Web of Books that we have
| been dreaming of rather than a Monopoly of Books.
| Google has helped build momentumâ lets take it the rest
| of the way without blowing it. This could be done by
| Congress or the Justice Departmentâ both of which are
| working on this right now.
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http://www.opencontentalliance.org/2009/09/20/at-end-of-act-ii-are-we-played-for-fools-or-building-a-enlightened-digital-world/
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