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• Free Introduction to Sociology Textbook (for adoption)

  
  Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD — Authority: 126
  Dear Colleagues, - and with Merry Christmas to all! This is a great time of year for changing textbooks and adopting our free Introduction to Sociology Text. Over the last fifteen years the cost of textbooks has outpaced inflation at a phenomenal rate. USA Today reports that over the past 25 years the average ...
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• Supplementing PubMed

  
  john hawks weblog — Authority: 431
  Another problem with "online methods supplements": I just went looking for the online supplement for a paper. The first copy I found was the online open access version from PubMed. All NIH-sponsored research is required to be made available there, now, 6 months after first publication, which is very, very good. ...
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• The textbook world is getting flat

  
  Scholarly Communications @ Duke — Authority: 109
  Earlier this month I was able, thanks to the organizing efforts of a colleague, to participate in a phone call with Jeff Shelstad, one of the founders of Flat World Knowledge .  I wrote about Flat World some time ago, but I want to take the opportunity (before it fades in my mind) to describe their business in more ...
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• My Holiday Writing Project: Smashing Perverse Insentives

  
  Big Monkey, Helpy Chalk — Authority: 99
  My goal this break is to revise For All x , a logic textbook made available free under a Creative Commons license, so that it is appropriate for my community college students. Textbook prices are salt in the wounds of students who have trouble paying from college, but right now teachers have no pressing reason to ...
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• "For the time being, Mr. Gretzky is still using his brain."

  
  john hawks weblog — Authority: 431
  Benedict Carey describes the live online dissection of the brain of Henry Molaison ( "Building a Search Engine of the Brain, Slice by Slice" ). Theres a lot of description about just how to slice up a frozen brain suspended in gelatin, and what kind of country ham the resulting slivers resemble. But much more ...
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• Inaugural issue of Impact: Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-learning

  
  Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD — Authority: 126
  Dear colleagues, It is with great pleasure that I write to you to announce that the long awaited and much anticipated inaugural issue of Impact: Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-learning has now been published at http://journal.elnet.com.au/impact . A copy of the issues Table of Contents is included at the ...
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• Opening my eyes: open data, open government

  
  LibraryTechNZ — Authority: 111
  Open data was without a doubt one of the biggest trends 2009 for people like us who work in the happy Venn diagram sweet spot of government and culture/heritage. There was the State Services Commission release of the draft NZ Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework (which the Library gave feedback ...
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• Creative Commons Licenses adopted at Palo Alto High School

  
  The Tree of Life — Authority: 122
  Cool - Creative Commons spreading even to Palo Alto High School - See  Paly Voice - Creative Commons Spotlight .  According to the article, multiple Palo Alto High publications have adopted CC licenses and are the first high school publications to do so.  Good call I say.  Plus check out the article which ...
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• Using Yahoo Pipes to redirect to Open Search metadata page instead of intraLibrary public URL (and the power of Twitter)

  
  Repository News — Authority: 99
  First of all, a big thank you to Owen Stephens – @ostephens – who responded to my musing tweets on RSS by assembling a Pipe that “Rewrites Intralibrary RSS feed to use ‘link’ to metadata rather than object” ; a great example of the power of Twitter for anyone who still thinks it’s an exercise in ...
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• Contribution to the OSTP Policy Forum

  
  Be openly accessible or be obscure — Authority: 106
  Today (December 20) is the last day for contributions to the first phase of the Public Access Forum, sponsored by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP): Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Implementation . The next phase, to begin on Dec. 21, is described at: Public ...
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• Smithsonian Commons–first look @ new website mockup

  
  Long Road — Authority: 106
  As these “commons” projects proliferate it’s valuable to keep in mind both the possibilities of openness and its limits. It’s nice to see the Smithsonian getting out there and engaging the public. I hope they also remember there are many different publics that have, and will have, different types of ...
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• US government seeks input on Open Access policies

  
  The Tree of Life — Authority: 122
  Quick one here. For all interested in Open Access.  Below are some excerpts from an email I received from the folks at PLoS Computational Biology.  The main point: the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is seeking input on broadening public access to publically funded research ... The White House ...
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• ACM Struggles with Open Access

  
  The Command Line — Authority: 443
  Cory shares a story on Boing Boing of the Association of Computing Machinery’s opposition to open access . I am an ACM member and also on the US public policy committee. I cannot share the committee’s views on this but what I can say is that many general ACM members share the same frustration that Cory’s ...
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• #OpenAccess help needed - best way to publish conference proceedings in an OA manner?

  
  The Tree of Life — Authority: 122
  To all Open Access fans or gurus out there.  I am writing at the request of a colleague who is looking into ways that one might switch from publishing papers for a conference from a closed access way to a more Open Access way. Does anyone out there know if there are good Open Access publishing services that would ...
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• Open Access in 2009

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 139
  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: 136
  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: 164
  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: 125
  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: 491
  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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