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OpenUp â TSO Launches Open Data Challenge with Â50,000 Development Fund
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| TSO (The Stationery Office), the leading
| provider of publishing solutions to the
| public sector, has today announced the
| launch of OpenUp, a Â50,000 development
| fund aimed at encouraging the British
| public to come up with ideas of how open
| data can be put to better use for their
| communities. The move by TSO to offer the
| substantial fund for investment follows the
| recent launch of Data.gov.uk by the
| Government. Individuals or teams of people
| are encouraged to enter the competition by
| submitting an idea that can use public data
| to deliver value to communities locally,
| regionally, nationally or even
| internationally. As well as securing the
| fund to see their idea developed the winner
| will also be awarded a personal prize of
| Â1,000.
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http://www.tso.co.uk/press/latestnews/archive/2010/openup/
The commonsware publishing model
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| CommonsWareâs publishing strategy is fairly
| simple: try to give readers a fair deal.
|
| Digital publishing with a price tag
| attached â whether it be books or music or
| movies â is trying to leverage an
| artificial scarcity. For all intents and
| purposes, there is really no additional
| costs for delivering 200 copies than there
| are for delivering 2 copies. However, the
| alternative revenue models are works-in-
| progress.
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http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-commonsware-publishing-model/2010/04/10
Recent:
An Approach to Open Access Author Payment
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| There have been hundreds of articles in
| recent years exhorting the strengths and
| warning of the weaknesses of Open Access
| through author payment. This article
| discusses a few of the favorable and
| unfavorable issues and proposes an approach
| that takes advantage of the favorable aspects
| and overcomes some of the unfavorable ones.
| It requires extensive government support,
| which may or may not be feasible, but the
| approach is presented here nevertheless. Some
| evidence is given for the potential savings
| that would be achieved by scientists,
| publishers and libraries in the US.
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http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march10/king/03king.html
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