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Parliament pushes for all EU documents to be made public
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| EU access to documents laws should be
| widened to cover all European institutions,
| bodies and agencies following the adoption
| of the Lisbon Treaty, MEPs said yesterday
| (17 December), criticising the European
| Commission for failing to update the rules.
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http://www.euractiv.com/en/pa/parliament-pushes-eu-documents-public/article-188449
Time for a University Prepress?
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| Given that the OU is a publication house,
| publishing research and teaching materials
| as a way of generating income, I wonder if
| there is an opportunity for the Library to
| support the research publication process
| providing specialist support for research
| authors, including optimising them for
| discovery!
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http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/time-for-a-university-prepress/
Free Culture Gets Political
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| For years, the free culture world was
| resolutely focused on building its eclectic
| array of commons projects â free software,
| open-access journals, wikis, and pools of
| creative works using Creative Commons
| licenses. History may record that the free
| culture reached a turning point in
| Barcelona, Spain, in November 2009. At the
| Free Culture Forum, a conference that just
| concluded this week, free culture activists
| from about twenty countries came together to
| assert a shared political and policy agenda.
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http://www.commonsdev.us/content.php?id=2560
Ransom America's public domain video treasures back from the National Archives!
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| Background: these videos were made at US taxpayer expense, and
| they are in the public domain. However, they aren't distributed
| for free by the National Archives; instead they're sold
| through Amazon as a money-maker for the government,
| which charges you to get access
| to the stuff you already own and paid for. The
| Archives get a minuscule amount of money by doing
| this: $3,273.66 over the past two years! In order to
| make a measly three grand, the National Archives have
| closed off the entire USA's access to its video treasures.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/19/ransom-americas-publ.html
Recent:
Obama Promotes New Open Government Initiative
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| U.S. government agencies must publish their
| information online in "open formats," under
| a new open government plan released by U.S.
| President Barack Obama's administration.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/184030/obama_promotes_new_open_government_initiative.html
Full Nelson: Video: San Francisco Goes Open, Transparent
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| CTO Adams and the city of San Francisco are
| looking to share the technology, which is
| built on an open source platform.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/state-local/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=221900791
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