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• "For the time being, Mr. Gretzky is still using his brain."

  
  john hawks weblog — Authority: 471
  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 ...
  14 hours ago

• 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 ...
  1 day ago

• 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 ...
  1 day ago

• Contribution to the OSTP Policy Forum

  
  Be openly accessible or be obscure — Authority: 109
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Smithsonian Commons–first look @ new website mockup

  
  Long Road — Authority: 114
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• 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 ...
  3 days ago

• ACM Struggles with Open Access

  
  The Command Line — Authority: 484
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• #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 ...
  4 days ago

• 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 ...
  5 days ago

• 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 ...
  5 days ago

• News: Marware ships new cases for iPod nano 5G, touch 2G (iLounge)

  
  The Gadget News — Authority: 163
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Flat World Knowledge announces partnership with Bookshare

  
  The CITE — Authority: 127
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• 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 ...
  5 days ago

• Public Access to Publicly Funded Research – Be Heard at the White House

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 487
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Alliance for Taxpayer Access Call to Action about White House Open Access RFI

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 432
  The Alliance for Taxpayer Access has issued a call to action about the OSTP open access RFI. Heres the press release: CALL TO ACTION: Let the White House know you support public access to public funded research Last week, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a Request for ...
  6 days ago

• Action Alert! Tell the White House to Open Access to Federal Research

  
  FreeCulture.org - Students for Free Culture — Authority: 452
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Cornell University’s Digitized Law Books

  
  Slaw — Authority: 589
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• 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 ...
  6 days ago

• A better beta – Open Search Version 2.0

  
  Repository News — Authority: 99
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• 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 ...
  1 week ago

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