Category Archives: Open Access

Stat Abs 2007

Posted on 16 December 2006 by Rick Mason

Yes, you are a library geek if you understand that the title does not refer to a quick workout plan, but to one of the best statistics resource for the U.S. The Statistical Abstracts of the United States:  2007 is … Continue reading →

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Update on EPA library issue

Posted on 8 December 2006 by Rick Mason

As an update to this post, it seems that the situation with the EPA library is getting worse. Presumably in response to a congressional request to halt the closure of its libraries, the EPA is removing thousands of documents from … Continue reading →

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Intute: Virtual Training Suite

Posted on 7 December 2006 by Rick Mason

It is British, it is online, and it is free.  It is Intute: Virtual Training Suite. What Intute is is a collection of web tutorials on a wide, wide range of subjects.  Their aim is to give you an overview … Continue reading →

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12 Essays on Books

Posted on 4 December 2006 by Rick Mason

The current issue of Forbes magazine has 12 essays on the subject of books. from Open Access News

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Internet Archive exempt from DMCA

Posted on 2 December 2006 by Rick Mason

According to a press release, the Internet Archive has been granted an exemption from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), allowing it to continue archiving web sites, software and such. Hopefully this is the movement towards more reasonable copyright applications … Continue reading →

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Library Student Journal

Posted on 2 December 2006 by Rick Mason

There is a new publication out there in libraryland, and it is peer-reviewed and open-access (two of my favorite hyphens)! Library Student Journal is being published by the School of Informatics at the University of Buffalo in New York, and … Continue reading →

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Johns Hopkins Open Courseware translated to Chinese

Posted on 28 November 2006 by Rick Mason

The open coursework offered by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been translated into Chinese and made available for study in China. The effort was headed by Lucifer Chu (perhaps best known for translating The Lord of the … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive times 3

Posted on 27 November 2006 by Rick Mason

All right then, begin the list: 1) An article spotted in this morning’s paper that offers a great summary for those not familiar with the archive: Content of Dead Sites Lives in Archive . 2) They earned a 2006 Education … Continue reading →

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College class writing their own textbook

Posted on 21 November 2006 by Rick Mason

Social and Cultural Foundations of Education will be an interesting course at Old Dominion University, as the coursework will not be taken from the textbook, it will be the textbook. In what may be a first for an undergraduate class, … Continue reading →

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Custom Search of DOAJ

Posted on 10 November 2006 by Rick Mason

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a terrific resource containing, in their words, access to “free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.” If only they had a full-text search tool (they do have a “Find Article” … Continue reading →

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LiS Radio

Posted on 15 October 2006 by Rick Mason

The University of Missouri – Columbia is hosting a plethora of webcasts of interest to library-type people under the banner of LiS Radio. These range from interviews to classes, from conversations to meetings.  Browse their site and see what there … Continue reading →

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Common Cartridge – a standard for learning management software

Posted on 9 October 2006 by Rick Mason

It has been announced that a group consisting of publishers and course software makers have created a standard format for online classes called Common Cartridge, which promises to allow electronic resources to be used interchangeably within different learning management software. … Continue reading →

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An example of where Open Source could have helped…

Posted on 1 October 2006 by Rick Mason

NASA recently made 1100 Apollo-era documents, including Mission Reports (I have read several, and they are truly fascinating to those interested in manned spaceflight), Evaluation Reports, Scientific Studies, and Interviews, available on a DVD-ROM, calling it the Lunar e-Library. Fantastic! … Continue reading →

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Innovate

Posted on 1 October 2006 by Rick Mason

The current issue (November/December 2006) of Innovate – Journal of Online Education is focused on Open Source and Open Access in higher education.  There are several articles of interest in to those looking to add or expand offerings in online … Continue reading →

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Open Of Course

Posted on 1 October 2006 by Rick Mason

There is a relatively new site for online learning called Open Of Course, which offers a variety of tutorials and such for no cost (except your time and effort).  Included among their offerings are tutorials on administering and using Linux … Continue reading →

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Zotero review

Posted on 26 September 2006 by Rick Mason

Daniel Chudnov, aka One Big Library has a review of the private beta version of Zotero, and man, does he like it! I am very eager to see what this piece of software can do!  Watch for the public beta … Continue reading →

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Future of the Internet II

Posted on 24 September 2006 by Rick Mason

From the Pew Internet & American Life Project comes a report titled The Future of the Internet II, a look at what people think might happen between now and 2020 (a little over 13 years — think about trying to … Continue reading →

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Encyclopedia of Earth

Posted on 23 September 2006 by Rick Mason

The Encyclopedia of Earth is a web-based, well there you went and guessed it, encyclopedia of articles relating to Earth science. Their primary purpose is to have a collaborative resource (think Wikipedia) that is also authoritative.  To ensure the latter, … Continue reading →

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Open Access Textbooks

Posted on 18 September 2006 by Rick Mason

Two more sites found in the realm of Open Access Textbooks, and one has bought the other: Freeload Press has bought Textbook Revolution in order to further their cause to bring a wider range of open access textbooks to students … Continue reading →

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Citizendium Project

Posted on 17 September 2006 by Rick Mason

The Citizendium Project sounds like it is attempting to merge the strengths of Wikipedia and Britannica by creating a more stable and authoritative version of Wikipedia. They are calling it a “Progressive Fork” of Wikipedia, meaning that they are attempting … Continue reading →

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