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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Open Access
Michael Gorman’s Sleep of Reason
Michael Gorman, former president of ALA, has riled up some people with his posts on Britannica Blog titled Web 2.0 : The Sleep of Reason (part I) and (part II). He makes some excellent points about scholarship and the perils … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Open Access
Tagged Alabama, Free Range Librarian, Librarian.net, Michael Gorman, president, Reason
Michael Gorman, Reason
Michael Gorman, web publishers
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Open Courseware at MIT
There is a great overview of the history and current status of the Open CourseWare (OCW) project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Of interest is the discussion on why to spend millions of dollars to provide free access to … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Online Services, Open Access
Tagged Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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Giving Knowledge for Free
Giving Knowledge for Free : The Emergence of Open Educational Resources (Pdf, 153 pages) is a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)‘s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation which details the state of open access education. … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Open Access
Tagged Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, Open Educational Resources, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development
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Freebase article on OpenBusiness
Freebase is a new project which I described in a posting last March. OpenBusiness recently ran an interview on their blog with the sites founders. from Open Access News
Posted in Blogs, Online Services, Open Access, Web Design, Wiki
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It’s a Wiki… It’s a Skymap…
It’s WikiSky! Ideal for answering the question “was that object in the western sky a star or planet?”, as well as many other star / constellation type questions. It also includes photographs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which … Continue reading
Posted in Maps, Online Databases, Open Access, Space, Wiki
Tagged Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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Open Medicine
Open Medicine is a new journal from Canada which is striving to be an online, open access alternative to the likes of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). There have been many … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Medical, Open Access, Periodicals
Tagged American Medical Association, Canada, New England Journal, New England Journal of Medicine;, Open Medicine;, the Directory of Open Access Journals, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine
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Public Knowledge Project
The Public Knowledge Project is a Canadian research initiative started nine years ago in order to develop “free, open source software for the management, publishing, and indexing of journals and conferences.” In doing so, they have found themselves at the … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Copyright, Libraries, Open Access, Open Source, Periodicals
Tagged IT Manager, IT Manager's Journal;, Open Source Software
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Wikipedia vs. Citizendium
In the Citizendium Blog, there is a very good, concise post detailing how Wikipedia and Citizendium compare and contrast. from Open Access News
Posted in Blogs, Online Databases, Open Access
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The queer, the quaint, the quizzical
The queer, the quaint, the quizzical; a cabinet for the curious is an online version of a book published in 1882. It is interestingly like a blog: short entries on a variety of topics, many of them oddities. Want to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Open Access
Tagged online version
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Copyright Resources on the Web
Copyright Resources on the Web is an excellent and very comprehensive collection of links to, whaddayaknow, copyright resources on the web. from ResourceShelf
Posted in Copyright, Education, Libraries, Open Access, Training, Tutorials
Tagged Web
Copyright Resources, Web
Copyright Resources
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FreeBase
Freebase is (or will be, if you are like me and waiting for an invite) an online behemoth of a database. Imagine taking Wikipedia and having users create links to related information, so that you can tap into the information … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Web Design
Tagged New York Times, online behemoth
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What is Web 2.0?
I am not a big fan of the term, but What is Web 2.0? (pdf) details the ideas and technologies that I do support for libraries and many individuals. I especially like their six “Big Ideas behind Web 2.0”: Individual … Continue reading
Nines
On the surface, Nines is a searchable database for nineteenth-century studies (their name stands for “a networked infrastructure for nineteenth-century electronic scholarship”). When you go beneath the surface, however, there is a great deal of potential to be explored. The … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Open Source, Periodicals, Search, Software, Web Design
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PubMed PubReMiner
PubReMiner is an interesting tool that lets you see the metadata behind your PubMed search, and lets you narrow your search with quite a bit more understanding of the ways in which you can do so. This was included as … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Libraries, Medical, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Periodicals, Search, Web Design
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Definition of Free Cultural Works
Definition of Free Cultural Works is a Creative Commons-like licensing platform meant to give creative originators greater control over created works. The project is just beginning, but I wonder what they will provide that isn’t covered, or able to be … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Open Access
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The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism
I read The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism, posted on Harpers.org a couple of days ago, and am still thinking about it a great deal. It is hard to describe the essay without spoiling the impact for the reader, but … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Open Access
Tagged copyright law
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Digital Abe
Digital versions of books by and about Abraham Lincoln, brought to you by the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and the Open Content Alliance. from ResourceShelf
Posted in Books, Copyright, Libraries, Open Access, Politics
Tagged Abe
Digital, Abe
Digital, Abraham Lincoln, Illinois, Open Content Alliance, University of Illinois
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Libraries and Open Source Software
Libraries facilitate open access to information with open source software is an interesting article posted on Linux.com. I have opened my Open Source Software and Libraries with the same observation that the open source movement and libraries share many of … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Libraries, Open Access, Open Source, Presenting, Software
Tagged Linux, Linux.com;, Open Source Software, source software
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PLoS ONE launches
PLoS ONE, created by the Public Library of Science, has launched. Open Access takes a terrific step forward! from Open Access News
Posted in Copyright, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Search
Tagged PLoS ONE;, Public Library of Science, the Public Library of Science
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