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How Digitized Content Democratizes Knowledge
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| Imagine my surprise this week when I learned
| that National Geographic is selling digital
| versions of every copy of National Geographic
| published since 1888 on DVD for $70 . No,
| there are no typos here. They'll sell you 120
| years of brilliant photography, insight and
| commentary about our world for essentially
| the price of taking your family to see
| "Avatar." For $200, they'll even send you the
| lot on a 160GB hard drive.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/185708/how_digitized_content_democratizes_knowledge.html?tk=rss_news
Plagiarism and the Creative Commons license
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| The bottom line is that this guy tried to
| pass off my work as his, got caught, lied
| himself into a corner, then tried to bluff
| his way out. Didnât work. Iâm not surprised
| at how it went down, in retrospect; after
| reading some of the things in his online
| profile, I should have known this was not a
| man who would ever admit a mistake even if he
| was walking around with a bucket of shit
| stuck on his foot. Iâll admit to one,
| though: it was a mistake for me to offer a
| compromise. To someone like that, a
| compromise offer is seen as admission of
| weakness.
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http://www.dwasifar.com/?p=958
Recent:
US Gov Requests Feedback on Open Access â ACM Gets it Wrong (Again)
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| In 2008, legislation was passed requiring all
| NIH-funded researchers to submit their papers
| to an openly available repository within a
| year of publication. Even this modest step
| towards full open access was immediately
| attacked by rent-seeking scientific
| publishers.
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http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/us-gov-requests-feedback-on-open-access-acm-gets-it-wrong-again/
U.S. research should be open access
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| The Office of Science and Technology Policy
| (OSTP) has launched a âpublic consultation on
| Public Access Policyâ, to see if research
| funded by U.S. grants should be made
| available as open access results. I think
| this is important â I believe publicly-funded
| unclassified research should actually be made
| available to the public.
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http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2009/12/13/#open-access-2009
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