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Open Access Week - October 19-23, 2009
http://www.openaccessweek.org/
Opencourseware Comes Under Attack
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| The article suggests that the kinds of online
| courses that will be created are already on
| offer: well, no, because those produced by
| "major textbook publishers, and hundreds of
| smaller providers" are neither "free of charge"
| nor "free" in the other, more interesting sense
| that you can take them, rework them, reshape
| them, and then share them. And why might that
| be a good idea? Well, most importantly, because
| it means that you don't have to "reinvent
| courses that have already been invented."
|
| [...]
|
| So, someone coming from an organisation that
| has no qualms defending the tobacco industry is
| unlikely to have much problem denouncing
| initiatives that spread learning,
| participation, collaboration, creativity,
| generosity and general joy in favour of all
| their antitheses. And the fact that such a
| mighty machine of FUD should stoop to attack
| little old opencourseware shows that we are
| clearly winning.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/10/opencourseware-comes-under-attack.html
Interview with Boston Book Festival Participant Nicholas Negroponte
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| The Boston Book Festival is coming up on
| Saturday. We already talked to an organizer;
| now it's time for a participant. Nicholas
| Negroponte is perhaps most famous for founding
| the MIT Media Lab and One Laptop Per Child, but
| he's also written his share of content. We
| talked to him about the role of technology and
| the future of books. He will be on the Digital
| Inclusion panel Saturday at 3pm.
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http://mobile.bostonist.com/2009/10/20/boston_book_festival_technology_nicholas_negroponte.php
Recent:
Back to the Future: 2020 Roadmap Updated
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| I think the sooner it becomes generally recognised
| that free software is a digital knowledge commons â
| one of many that are being created through open
| collaboration â the more people's attitudes to it
| will change, and the more impact it will have. It is
| no coincidence that one of the people awarded this
| year's Nobel Prize for Economics, was Elinor Ostrom,
| âfor her analysis of economic governance, especially
| the commonsâ. I look forward to reading next year's
| 2020 roadmap, in the hope that it might explore more
| deeply this important concept.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2588&blogid=14
OpenStreetMapS.org now owned by OSMF
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| Thanks to some great work by Grant Slater and Andy
| Robinson all those people who mistake openstreetmap
| for openstreetmaps will now get directed to the
| right place.
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http://www.opengeodata.org/2009/10/16/openstreetmaps-org-now-owned-by-osmf/
EU Bookshop Digital Library goes live - All the EU publications in one place
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| Scanning 12 million pages makes more than 110 000 EU
| publications available free of charge for download
| in the EU Bookshop Digital Library. It offers all
| publications ever edited by the Publications Office
| on behalf of the EU institutions, agencies and other
| bodies since 1952.
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http://publications.europa.eu/eu_bookshop/eub3/index_en.htm
Is open-access journal publishing a vanity publishing industry?
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| Vanity journal domination is not occurring, nor is
| it likely to occur, among OA journals. Vanity
| journal existence will and does happen among both OA
| and subscription-fee journals, but at least for OA
| journals is a benign phenomenon. As subscription-
| fee journals more and more charge author-side fees,
| including hybrid open-access fees, one can only hope
| that the baseless vanity press recrimination against
| open-access journals will fade away.
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http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2009/10/16/is-open-access-publishing-a-vanity-publishing-industry/
The Commons Meme Becomes More Common
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| One of the great knock-on benefits of Elinor Ostrom
| sharing the Nobel prize for Economics is that the
| concept of the commons is getting the best airing
| than it's ever had.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/10/commons-meme-becomes-more-common.html
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/
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