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Campaign welcomes decision to drop proposed cabinet papers exemption
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| The governmentâs announcement that it has
| dropped its proposal to exempt cabinet
| papers from the Freedom of Information Act,
| and that it will reduce the 30 year rule to
| 20 years, was welcomed by the Campaign for
| Freedom of Information today.
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http://foia.blogspot.com/2010/02/campaign-welcomes-decision-to-drop.html
The open society
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| America is in the lead on data access. On
| his first full day in office Barack Obama
| issued a presidential memorandum ordering
| the heads of federal agencies to make
| available as much information as possible,
| urging them to act âwith a clear
| presumption: in the face of doubt, openness
| prevailsâ. This was all the more remarkable
| since the Bush administration had explicitly
| instructed agencies to do the opposite.
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http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15557477&fsrc=rss
Open Access linked to Alabama shooting
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| On 15th February, for instance, The Daily
| Kos pointed out that the International
| Journal of General Medicine charges authors
| to publish their papers. This fact alone,
| The Daily Kos seemed to imply, meant that
| the paper would have been inadequate. But
| there was more.
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http://poynder.blogspot.com/2010/02/open-access-linked-to-alabama-shooting.html
Free Our Data response to the DCLG consultation on OS Free
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| The Free Our Data campaign was co-founded in
| March 2006 by Charles Arthur and Michael
| Cross with the aim of persuading government
| that non-personal datasets created by
| government-owned agencies and companies and
| organisations should be made available for
| free reuse without licence restrictions.
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http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2010/02/free-our-data-response-to-the-dclg-consultation-on-os-free/
Democracy Club is up and running
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| Democracy Club is up and running. Last week
| meetings were held up and down the country
| organised by volunteers involved with the
| new initiative to bring transparency to
| government. The project is an out-growth of
| TheyWorkForYou and other associated websites
| of MySociety founded by the ever inventive
| Tom Steinberg.
|
| Thanks to the formidable resources it began
| with, with the emails of all those who've
| signed up to those sites on its database,
| Democracy Club already has over 3000
| volunteers spread across 641of 650 of the
| UKâs constituencies.
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http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/guy-aitchison/democracy-club-is-up-and-running
European research funders throw weight behind UK open access repository
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| Four European research funders have today
| added their support to the open access
| repository UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) by
| agreeing that the life sciences research
| outputs made possible with their funding are
| made freely available through this
| repository.
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http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2010/WTX058744.htm
Recent:
Adventures of an Amateur Cartographer
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| While striding manfully across the streets
| of suburbia this week I've been listened to
| some back issues of FLOSS Weekly that I'd
| previously missed. This excellent podcast by
| Randal Schwartz covers all aspects of Free
| Libre Open Source Software, occasionally
| straying into open source hardware and, in
| the case of the podcast I was listening to,
| open source data.
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http://frogplate.net/blog/amateur-cartographer.html
Textbooks That Professors Can Rewrite Digitally
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| In a kind of Wikipedia of textbooks,
| Macmillan, one of the five largest
| publishers of trade books and textbooks, is
| introducing software called DynamicBooks,
| which will allow college instructors to edit
| digital editions of textbooks and customize
| them for their individual classes.
|
| Professors will be able to reorganize or
| delete chapters; upload course syllabuses,
| notes, videos, pictures and graphs; and
| perhaps most notably, rewrite or delete
| individual paragraphs, equations or
| illustrations.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/22/business/media/22textbook.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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