OpenAccess

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “OpenAccess”

• Open Access in 2009

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  Richard Poynder has posted a retrospective on open access in 2009. From the post: And the bad news? There remains some doubt as to the efficacy of the mandates being introduced. Indeed, it is not even clear that many of the claimed mandates amount to much more than pious declarations. Thanks to Gavin Baker at ...
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• Technology Trends for 2010

  
  Virtual High School Meanderings — Authority: 138
  A few days ago, one of the folks I follow on Plurk posted this entry:To follow the link click on the image or visit http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/12/10/5-k12-technology-trends-for-2010.aspxInteresting in looking at these tech trends for the coming year, they include:eBooks Will Continue to ProliferateNetbook ...
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• News: Marware ships new cases for iPod nano 5G, touch 2G (iLounge)

  
  The Gadget News — Authority: 161
  Marware has introduced its new ClearShell case for the fifth-generation iPod nano and its Accent case for the second- and third-generation iPod touch. The ClearShell is a clear, hard polycarbonate case featuring open access to all ports, controls, and the camera, as well as an included screen protector and cleaning ...
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• Flat World Knowledge announces partnership with Bookshare

  
  The CITE — Authority: 128
  In recent months, open access course materials and efforts to improve textbook accessibility for disabled students have been two important topics in the news and now two companies are joining forces to make open textbooks available to students with print disabilities. Earlier this week, Flat World Knowledge ...
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• Has the Supreme Court Undermined Civil Rights Enforcement?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Does a House bill about legal civil procedures provide a way to restore the protection of civil rights in America, or is it an unwarranted gift to trial lawyers that could be “paralyzing if not deadly” to the federal government? That’s the question a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee examined ...
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• Public Access to Publicly Funded Research – Be Heard at the White House

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 415
  I’m cross-posting this from everyone , the community blog of PLoS ONE, who are asking all those with an interest to involve themselves in this initiative from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, (OSTP) , who state the following: Yesterday we announced the launch of the Public Access ...
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• Action Alert! Tell the White House to Open Access to Federal Research

  
  FreeCulture.org - Students for Free Culture — Authority: 449
  The following is a guest post from Nick Shockey of SPARC . Last Wednesday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a Request for Information on the issue of Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research. Executive action stemming from this RFI could potentially open all federally ...
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• Cornell University’s Digitized Law Books

  
  Slaw — Authority: 573
  Thanks to a tweet by @richards1000 I was reminded about Cornell University Library’s digitization project, which has resulted in over 2000 law books’ becoming freely available online at the Internet Archive . Slawyer Michael Lines spent some time at Cornell in 2008 and reported on the digitization project ...
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• December 2009 Issue Of JOLT – Now Online

  
  Virtual High School Meanderings — Authority: 138
  Another notice of a new journal issue (similar to OJDLA Winter 2009 Edition Available Online from yesterday), and another attempt to clear e-mail from yesterday out of my inbox.  While not K-12 online learning, “An Online Math Problem Solving System for Middle School Students Who are Blind” is an article about ...
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• A better beta – Open Search Version 2.0

  
  Repository News — Authority:
  After mounting pressure from the University, we have now added live links to http://repository.leedsmet.ac.uk/main/index.php from Library Online and the research web-pages but it is important that folk are aware that it is still very much a beta implementation – I have tried to summarise ongoing development ...
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• AAA Provides Free Access to 85 Years of American Anthropologist and More

  
  Digging Digitally — Authority: 111
  On the Ancient World Online blog ( AWOL ), a post announced that the American Anthropological Association (AAA) is now offering open access to important journals such as American Anthropologist and  Anthropology News . One important caveat though: while the former’s issues are all open access, the ...
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• Cornell Gives about 80,000 Digitized Public Domain Books to Internet Archive

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 139
  The Cornell University Library has given about 80,000 digitized public domain books to the Internet Archive. Heres an excerpt from the press release : In an effort to make its materials globally accessible, Cornell University Library is sharing tens of thousands of digitized books with the Internet Archive. "We ...
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• OJDLA Winter 2009 Edition Available Online

  
  Virtual High School Meanderings — Authority: 138
  No K-12 online learning articles in this issue, but some general issues that may be of interest to my readers…We are pleased to announce:The Winter 2009 edition of the Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration is available at:http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdlaTitles include:* The Impact of Face-to-Face ...
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• “Open Access” Encyclopedias

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  Steve Kolowich at InsideHigherEd has a new article on “open access” encyclopedias besides Wikipedia. From the article: Like a lot of free-content sites, most of these encyclopedia projects are still grappling with funding anxieties. Thanks to Gavin Baker at Open Access News for the link.
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• If it ain’t online & open it may as well be dead

  
  Digital Rights - Sound and Fury — Authority: 122
  While Rupert Murdoch keeps threatening the world that he will move all his media behind paywalls it is time to recall the fascinating truth about information: If it ain’t online & open it may as well be dead. If it cannot be found via Google it may as well not exist. I know that this is shallow and that it ...
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• Open Science Debate: Democracy or Dominance?

  
  The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority: 526
  Can one ideologue really hijack the OSTP forum on Open Access implementation?
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• US government looks to expand scientific open access policy

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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• ABA Custom Search Engine

  
  Slaw — Authority: 573
  The American Bar Association’s Technology Resource Center has launched a search engine that enables you to search the “free full-text of over 300 online law reviews and law journals” as well as some additional material. There is a list of sources searched on the page where you’ll find the search box. ...
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• Presentations from the Berlin 7 Open Access Conference

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 139
  Presentations from the Berlin 7 Open Access Conference are now available. Slides Videos Related Posts Presentations from Throwing Open the Doors: Strategies and Implications for Open Access Digital Video Presentations from the 1st Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing Video ...
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• Columbia University Joins Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 139
  Columbia University Libraries/Information Services have joined the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity. Heres an excerpt from the announcement : Columbia University has joined several leading institutions of higher learning in a commitment to a Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity . Other signatories ...
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