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Open access to government documents?
What's that?

Open access to government documents?
What's that? 02/10/2004 02:53 AM
"I can make your life very difficult..." In January, journalists posing as regular citizens attempted to review documents under Florida's open access laws. 43% of all requests were denied, and in some cases volunteers were lied to, harassed or even threatened by government officials.

Congress Pushing Open Access for
Government-Funded Research

Congress Pushing Open Access for
Government-Funded Research 08/06/2004 09:25 AM

Linux in Government: The Government Open
Code Collaborative

Linux in Government: The Government Open
Code Collaborative 12/19/2004 03:17 PM
Can a 'gated Open Source community' really work?

From open source to open services to
open information

From open source to open services to
open information 03/29/2005 12:00 PM
My March 21 entry about upcoming.org turned out to be an odd juxtaposition because, on the same day, a new events database called EVDB was announced and shown at PC Forum. It's due out shortly in public beta but I haven't seen it, so for now I only know what you can also learn from reading, among others: Dan Farber, Ross Mayfield, Om Malik, David Weinberger, and Paul Kedrosky (whose recent archive is missing this morning, yikes). The consensus seems to be that EVDB will be a Web-2.0-style, Wiki-style, RSS-friendly, Flickr-and-del.icio.us-like thingy. Sounds promising! I'll certainly check it out when it's public. ...

Open Access STM Literature

Open Access STM Literature 08/17/2004 04:08 AM
Open Access STM Literature
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3061258

The more than 2,000 publishers offering STM (scientific, technological and medical) literature collectively publish 1.2 million articles a year in about 16,000 periodical journals, but their success is being challenged by the "open access" movement. In the U.K., the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee says that the country's universities should be required to ensure that all their research papers are available free online, and that government-funded research grants ought to include free access to the findings a condition of the awards. In the U.S., the House of Representatives' Committee on Appropriations approved a provision in a bill that backs open access to material published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and the leading research associations of Germany, France and Switzerland have signed the so-called Berlin Declaration calling for free access to research findings. Barbara Meredith, a vice-president at the Association of American Publishers, a trade group, says that the open access movement could undermine the sustainability of the publishing industry, even though the entire open access literature currently represents less than 1% of what is published. The Economist magazine comments: "Prestige has its uses and the open-access journals will, no doubt, establish a pecking-order among themselves fairly quickly. But for prestige at any price, time is probably up.

Open Access News

Open Access News 03/09/2004 12:06 AM
Open Access News
http://www.earl ham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

This news weblog presents updates on the open access movement, defined here as the goal of: "Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature on the internet. Making it available free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Removing the barriers to serious research." The blog's archives are available in weekly installments, dating back to May 2002. In addition to news, the site has a lengthy guide to terms, software, and associations; sources; discussion forums, mailing lists, and internet resource links.

Open Access Law: Launched

Open Access Law: Launched 06/17/2005 05:03 PM
Following my whining about a copyright agreement I was asked by Minnesota Law Review to sign (and an update to that complaint: Minnesota was very gracious about changing the contract once I asked them), Dan Hunter of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Michael Carroll of Villanova Law School, and on the Creative Commons board, began pulling together an Open Access Law Project, as part of the Science Commons. On Monday, the project launched. The project has developed and will maintain three distinct threads.

The first is a statement of Open Access Law (OAL) Journal Principles. Twenty-two journals have sig ned on so far.

The second is an OAL Author's Pledge, which authors who published in law journals can take to signal their willingness to publish in OAL journals only. I've sign ed this pledge, and will be working to recruit others as well.

Finally, we have drafted a OAL Model Publishing Agreement that is consistent with the principles of the OAL Project.

We were motivated to launch this project by the recognition that in fact, there is no substantial institutional resistance to open access publishing in law. The major commercial publishers of online journals, Lexis and Westlaw, don't require exclusivity. Any resistance is therefore primarily inertia. Our hope was to coordinate efforts to overcome this inertia, and make access to legal materials cheaper and more universal. Each part of this project will evolve as we learn more about how best to achieve these goals. We're looking for more feedback, and are opening a discussion list for input. You can help this project by encouraging other authors and journals to sign on. If you're a law student, then send an email to your professors asking them to join. The same with law journals you might have connections with. We are eager to establish a minimum set of Open Access Law standards quickly, so that others can begin to experiment with better, more ambitious, ideas. This project is also significant for a more CC-local reason. This is the first project chaired completely outside the organization. I'm grateful to Dan Hunter for his work. His success is a model I hope we can implement elsewhere as well. We've got a million ideas for expanding the commons. But we only have a few overworked souls at Creative and Science Commons to carry them into effect. If we can identify other efficient and hard working souls like Dan to volunteer on a project, we can expand our work more quickly. Ideas welcome.

The Open Source Government

The Open Source Government 05/14/2004 01:42 PM

Sun Gets Open Source Into NSW Government

Sun Gets Open Source Into NSW Government 10/29/2003 01:14 AM

Open-source government

Open-source government 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
Adam Greenfield has written an RFC on the idea of an open-source constitution for post-national states: The question then becomes, what kinds of constitutional structures are

Nature Open Access Debate

Nature Open Access Debate 04/09/2004 03:54 PM

Nature is hosting a debate on open access science publishing. At the center of the debate are Public Library of Science and BioMed Central, two open access journal publishers using the Creative Commons Attribution License. The PLoS evidence paper presents a good summary of what is wrong with the current scholarly publishing model, why open access is important, and an open access business model.

Even as the much needed debate on open access journals heats up, it is just one part of a bigger picture where science, creativity, law, and society collide. Perhaps with this in mind, note the recent post on this weblog concerning the launch of the Science Commons exloratory phase.

Open-Access Journals Flourish

Open-Access Journals Flourish 04/11/2005 06:28 AM
As more academic and medical publishers charge authors instead of advertisers, critics fear conflicts of interest will tarnish research. By Randy Dotinga.

More Open Access To Digital Content

More Open Access To Digital Content 11/17/2003 04:17 AM
While things like MIT's OpenCourseWare and the new file sharing of lessons from the Berklee College of Music are getting all the attention, the well known iBiblio has been chugging away for over a decade, hosting all sorts of content for free. Years ago, it was known as SunSITE, when it was sponsored by Sun, but it eventually became iBiblio, and is hosted at UNC. It's mostly known for hosting open source software, but is expanding rapidly into all sorts of open content that people all over the world find useful. The guy who runs it seems to understand that there's a value in giving away things for free - and says that he's told folks in the music industry how they're making a mistake in calling music downloaders pirates. He points out that the people who go to the trouble of downloading music are the ones who are most interested in the music, and thus should be the people the recording industry is most excited about.

Directory of Open Access Journals

Directory of Open Access Journals 09/20/2004 02:51 PM
fully open and available free peer-reviewed journals .. directory for open access journals .. open journal movement .. Journals Full Text .. DOAJ

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AOL's Open Mail Access Isn't

AOL's Open Mail Access Isn't 04/28/2004 06:49 PM
You can access and open AOL messages with any IMAP client, but outbound mail support is officially available only to Eudora and the mail apps from Microsoft. By Christopher Breen, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

Open Access (Journal) Collections

Open Access (Journal) Collections 12/10/2003 10:21 AM
Open Access (Journal) Collections
http ://www.joanconger.net/ERIL/list_issues_openaccess.html

A listing of Open Access Journal Collections available over the Internet from ERIL ( Electronic Resources in Libraries ) that is an ongoing work in progress.

Nature on open access publishing

Nature on open access publishing 06/09/2004 07:19 PM

One of the kings of scientific publishing, the journal Nature, has recently launched a forum to bring together articles and information about open access publishing. They've even got an RSS feed for updates to the forum.

It's great to see a top journal open a dialogue about a somewhat controversial issue in the scientific publishing industry. In an age of ever increasing journal subscription costs and shrinking library budgets, many smaller journals have embraced the concept of open access publishing and a prominent journal started with the issue at heart, but many larger publishers have distanced themselves from the topic. [via furdlog]

Danish government goes open source

Danish government goes open source 09/24/2004 09:16 AM
ZDNet Sep 24 2004 1:19PM GMT

Government boost for open source

Government boost for open source 12/10/2003 01:55 PM
vnunet.com Dec 10 2003 1:10PM ET

Open Source in California Government

Open Source in California Government 08/13/2004 10:45 AM

NetGear Also Has Remote Access Wide Open

NetGear Also Has Remote Access Wide Open 06/05/2004 10:22 AM

Open Access To Scientific Literature:
Can It Work?

Open Access To Scientific Literature:
Can It Work? 06/09/2004 12:43 PM

Virtual Access Open Source Project

Virtual Access Open Source Project 11/02/2003 10:52 AM
VA - Alpha Binaries v6.0.0.6

Scientists launch open-access journals

Scientists launch open-access journals 03/13/2003 10:16 AM

A group of scientists launched an open-access scientific journals project: the Public Library of Science . Supported by a $9 million grant from the Moore Foundation , the two journals, Public Library of Science Biology and Public Library of Science Medicine , are planned to appear in 2003.
The thinking behind the project is the argument that scientific research is a public good, and should be accessible to all , in the interests of education and informed public debate. The project participates in a larger movement of open-access scholarly journals , and:

is an outgrowth of several years of friction between scientists and the journals over who should control access to scientific literature in the electronic age. For most scientists, who typically assign their copyright to the journals for no compensation, the main goal is to distribute their work as widely as possible.

(thanks to Becky!)

Theory of Computing - Open Access
Journal

Theory of Computing - Open Access
Journal 03/22/2005 05:09 PM

Theory of Computing - Open Access Journal

Duke explaines leadership in Open Access

Duke explaines leadership in Open Access 06/22/2005 02:31 AM
The Duke Law School offers an explanation of its leadership in the Open Access Law movement. Of course, that part of the world is responsible for lots of important movements of freedom, and that law school is particularly responsible.

Government to encourage open source
development

Government to encourage open source
development 12/30/2003 11:12 PM
The Israeli government also will encourage the development of lower-priced alternatives to Microsoft software in an effort to help expand computer use by the public. To that end, the Finance Ministry has cooperated with Sun Microsystems and IBM in designing the Hebrew language version of OpenOffice software, a freely distributed open-source alternative to Microsoft Office.

Government Open Code Collaborative
launched

Government Open Code Collaborative
launched 07/06/2004 05:07 PM
The goal of the collaborative is to encourage the sharing of computer code developed for and by government entities.

UK government funds another new
open-source programme

UK government funds another new
open-source programme 04/07/2005 02:34 PM
TechWorld Apr 7 2005 6:32PM GMT

Linux in Government: Open Source
Innovation within the DoD

Linux in Government: Open Source
Innovation within the DoD 06/28/2004 06:29 AM
When a National Security directive became effective, this DoD team took the initiative with open-source software.

This is not open source in the true
sense. The government ag

This is not open source in the true
sense. The government ag 09/20/2004 11:01 PM
TechTree Sep 21 2004 2:42AM GMT

Vietnam government opts for open source

Vietnam government opts for open source 11/03/2003 05:33 AM
Silicon.com Nov 3 2003 4:35AM ET

Government open source deployments you
don't hear about

Government open source deployments you
don't hear about 12/30/2003 03:55 AM
I know of at least a dozen goverment open source deployments I have been begged not to write about, not in the spy movie, "If I tell you I'll have to kill you!" sense, but because the people responsible for them worry that excess publicity might kill their efforts to run their agencies' computers with the most reliable and cost-effective software they can find.

U.K. government funds new open-source
initiative

U.K. government funds new open-source
initiative 04/06/2005 06:10 PM
It's designed to foster the use of open-source software by local governments and facilitate a national community of developers who can collaborate on centralized software projects.

US Government Open Code Collaborative
launched

US Government Open Code Collaborative
launched 07/07/2004 07:59 AM
Computer Weekly Jul 7 2004 12:28PM GMT

Malaysian Government Prefers Open Code

Malaysian Government Prefers Open Code 07/18/2004 02:21 AM

UK government funds new open-source
initiative

UK government funds new open-source
initiative 04/06/2005 02:57 PM
The U.K. government is backing a new initiative aimed at promoting the use of open-source software in the public sector, providing a forum for those working in the public sector to test and use such software.

Open-Access Publishing: Creator or
Destroyer of Wealth?

Open-Access Publishing: Creator or
Destroyer of Wealth? 05/16/2004 06:36 AM
Open-Access Publishing: Creator or Destroyer of Wealth?
http:// www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/15.html

Marie Meyer, Managing Director of open-access publisher Vertilog, rejects the idea that an open-access publication is sustainable if a business can deliver what customers need or want, at a price that they are willing to pay. No, she says. Companies are sustainable in the long run only if they create economic value -- and simply generating revenues is not evidence of value creation. "If I set up a business selling £1 coins for 99p, it could easily generate revenue. How long I could afford to stay in business is another matter entirely." Criticizing those who have argued that the Internet changes everything, she says that open-access publishing models don't create new value and "could easily be ushering in a dot-com-style cycle of wealth destruction that will leave them -- and dozens of learned societies -- constantly scratching for funds, with nothing left over for funding innovation." (Nature 6 May 2004)

Free/Open-Access Academic Journals
Growing

Free/Open-Access Academic Journals
Growing 04/14/2005 02:31 AM

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