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Wired News: Open Arms for Open-Source
News
Wired News: Open Arms for Open-Source
News
07/23/2004 03:07 AMturns content control to the people .. Open Arms for Open-Source
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sunshineweek.org -- open access, open
government
sunshineweek.org -- open access, open
government
03/17/2005 02:49 AMsunshineweek.org -- open access, open government .. National Sunshine
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Open Access STM Literature
Open Access STM Literature
08/17/2004 04:08 AMOpen Access STM Literaturehttp://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 Law: Launched
Open Access Law: Launched
06/17/2005 05:03 PMFollowing 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.
More Open Access To Digital Content
More Open Access To Digital Content
11/17/2003 04:17 AMWhile 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.
Open-Access Journals Flourish
Open-Access Journals Flourish
04/11/2005 06:28 AMAs more academic and medical publishers charge authors instead of
advertisers, critics fear conflicts of interest will tarnish research.
By Randy Dotinga.
AOL's Open Mail Access Isn't
AOL's Open Mail Access Isn't
04/28/2004 06:49 PMYou 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)
Nature Open Access Debate
Nature Open Access Debate
04/09/2004 03:54 PMNature 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.
Nature on open access publishing
Nature on open access publishing
06/09/2004 07:19 PMOne 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]
Directory of Open Access Journals
Directory of Open Access Journals
09/20/2004 02:51 PMfully open and available free peer-reviewed journals .. directory for
open access journals .. open journal movement .. Journals Full Text ..
DOAJ
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Open Access (Journal) Collections
Open Access (Journal) Collections
12/10/2003 10:21 AMOpen Access (Journal) Collectionshttp
://www.joanconger.net/ERIL/list_issues_openaccess.htmlA listing of Open Access Journal Collections available over the
Internet from
ERIL (
Electronic Resources in Libraries ) that is an ongoing work in
progress.
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.
Open Arms for Open-Source News
Open Arms for Open-Source News
07/22/2004 06:17 AMA California newspaper is turning over the news to the people: If you
think it's news, it probably is to somebody, so write it up. By Daniel
Terdiman.
NetGear Also Has Remote Access Wide Open
NetGear Also Has Remote Access Wide Open
06/05/2004 10:22 AMTheory of Computing - Open Access
Journal
Theory of Computing - Open Access
Journal
03/22/2005 05:09 PM
Theory of Computing - Open Access Journal
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!)
Virtual Access Open Source Project
Virtual Access Open Source Project
11/02/2003 10:52 AMVA - Alpha Binaries v6.0.0.6
Open Access To Scientific Literature:
Can It Work?
Open Access To Scientific Literature:
Can It Work?
06/09/2004 12:43 PMDuke explaines leadership in Open Access
Duke explaines leadership in Open Access
06/22/2005 02:31 AMThe
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.
Open Access Publishing Takes Another
Step Forward
Open Access Publishing Takes Another
Step Forward
06/17/2005 05:02 PMScience Commons - a new project of Creative Commons that works to
encourage sharing of scientific and academic knowledge - has launched
an Open Access Law Program. The Program is designed to make legal
scholarship "open access," that is freely available online to
everyone, without undue copyright and licensing restrictions. The
Program involves an Open Access Law Author Pledge, Open Access Law
Principles and an Open Access Law Model Publication
Agreement.Our very own Chairman & CEO, Lawrence Lessig, is one
of the first signatories to the Open Access Law Author Pledge. In
addition, 21 important law reviews have adopted the Open Access
Principles, or have policies that are consistent with them. Leading
journals like such as Michigan Law Review, Animal Law, Harvard Journal
of Law & Technology, Indiana Law Journal, Lewis & Clark Law Review,
Michigan Law Review, Michigan State Law Review and, New York Law
School Law Review, Texas Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and Wayne
Law Review and Michigan State Law Review have signed on, as have all
of the journals published by Duke Law School and Villanova Law School.
More information about the Program is available at the Science
Commons Program page. The Program is one part of the Science
Commons Publishing Project, which is working to support open access to
scholarly research in a wide range of disciplines including
agriculture, entomology, biology, anthropology and now law.
First issue of open access biology
journal launched
First issue of open access biology
journal launched
10/29/2003 12:11 AM
The first issue of the Public Library of Science Biology journal was
published today. The publication's strategy is aimed at
maximizing access to peer-reviewed , scholarly material by not charging readers , while
increasing its dissemination speed. PLOS also intervenes in the copyright
debate, publishing under a
Creative Commons license .
The launch has attracted
a great deal of attention , discussion and criticism
. More
journal titles are due to appear soon.
via Open Access News
Independent ISPs Team Up To Fight For
Open Access
Independent ISPs Team Up To Fight For
Open Access
04/15/2004 02:23 PMFinally realizing that having each independent ISP argue the point
separately and hoping that it all worked out, a group of such ISPs are
banding
together to fight for open access to cable broadband lines. The
FCC has been pretty clear in not opening up access to the cable lines,
though they've looked vulnerable in court lately. The entire "open
access" debate is only going to get much, much messier before it's
settled - which isn't really good for anyone. In the meantime,
though, over in the DSL world, Qwest and Covad
have signed a
line-sharing deal - showing that private deals can happen without
regulation.
Achieving Open Access: Alternatives To
Author Charges
Achieving Open Access: Alternatives To
Author Charges
09/10/2004 05:47 AMAchieving Open Access: Alternatives To Author
Chargeshttp://www.library.
yale.edu/science/oa.htmlThere probably isn't a
researcher or scholar alive who wouldn't love to see true open access
to scholarly journals -- freely available, immediate electronic access
to published, peer-reviewed research articles. And while some open
access does exist -- in a limited way to some journals -- the author
proposes some ideas for making open access a more universal reality.
One plan being implemented by some publishers calls for "author
charges" as an alternative to traditional subscriptions. The
assumption is that those with vested interests should pay for the
distribution of the material, and that government grants and other
sources of income will fund these direct payments. Noting that this
model is flawed for a variety of reasons, the article suggests instead
that alternatives can provide the desired access without destabilizing
the system. One interesting idea is to reconsider the entire "publish
or perish" focus of the promotion and tenure process. The existing
system encourages unlimited scholarly publication, and enormous
numbers of editorial boards with little guarantee of quality control
from many commercial operations. Ideally, if papers were only being
written and published because their authors truly had something to
say, everybody would benefit. (Yale University Science Libraries)
Open-Access Publishing: Creator or
Destroyer of Wealth?
Open-Access Publishing: Creator or
Destroyer of Wealth?
05/16/2004 06:36 AMOpen-Access Publishing: Creator or Destroyer of
Wealth?http://
www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/15.htmlMarie
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 AMPhone exec: "People don't want open
Internet access"
Phone exec: "People don't want open
Internet access"
08/27/2004 01:46 PM
Cory Doctorow:
The COO of 3, a European 3G wireless company, has uttered one of the
stupidest things ever said by a phone company executive
(
there's a field with some stiff competition!). In justifying
his company's decision to censor the Internet services delivered over
its wireless link (they're only allowing customers to access certain,
selected services, rather than providing a fast wireless pipe that
customers can use as they see fit), this loonytune has this to say:
'People don't want open access, that's not what our
customers tell us they want,' he said. 'Anyone in their right mind who
tries to do anything on the Internet with a screen that size has to be
nuts.'
Link
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via Engadget)
PNAS Introduces Open Access Publishing
Option
PNAS Introduces Open Access Publishing
Option
05/25/2004 05:26 AMPNAS Introduces Open Access Publishing Optionhttp://www.pnas.org/The
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) now offers an
open access publishing option. PNAS authors may opt to pay a $1000
surcharge to make their articles available for free via PNAS Online
(
www.pnas.org) and PubMed Central
(
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov)
immediately upon publication. PNAS will offer this open access option
as an experiment until December 31, 2005. PNAS will then continue to
move toward an author-pays open access model, maintain the option in
the same or modified form, or discontinue it. By introducing this
option, PNAS strengthens its commitment to making the scientific
literature more freely available than ever before, and hopes that its
support of open access will encourage other scientific publishers to
follow suit. PNAS will evaluate author participation and the financial
impact of the open access option on PNAS revenue.
"The
benefits to science of unfettered access to the literature are
obvious," says Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, PNAS Editor-in-Chief. "Open
access publishing offers the immediate release of scientific results
to everyone without the delay and cost of obtaining research articles
through journal subscriptions. The challenge of open access is how to
pay for it. This is particularly important for PNAS, which operates as
a nonprofit, break-even operation and does not maintain contingency
funds or capital reserves. PNAS is starting by experimenting with an
open access option for authors. It is a compromise between open access
for all articles and doing business as usual." The first open access
article is by Yang and Purves (1), published online in PNAS Early
Edition on May 19, 2004.
Congress Pushing Open Access for
Government-Funded Research
Congress Pushing Open Access for
Government-Funded Research
08/06/2004 09:25 AMThe Devil You Don’t Know: The
Unexpected Future of Open Access
Publishing
The Devil You Don’t Know: The
Unexpected Future of Open Access
Publishing
08/11/2004 05:03 AMThe Devil You Don’t Know: The Unexpected Future of Open
Access Publishing by Joseph J. Espositohttp://firstmo
nday.org/issues/issue9_8/esposito/With the advent of
the Internet and online publishing, the notion has arisen that access
to the world’s research publications could be made available to one
and all for free, presumably by shifting the costs to other places in
the value chain and disintermediating publishers, a circumstance
called Open Access (OA) publishing. While there are many hopes
embedded in this view (lower costs, wider access, etc.), it appears
more likely that Open Access will come about not through a revolution
in the world of legacy publishing, but through upstart media built
with the innate characteristics of the Internet in mind. An
unanticipated outcome of this situation will be that the overall cost
of research publications will rise, though the costs will be borne by
different players, primarily authors and their proxies.
Open Access to Scientific and Technical
Information: State of the Art and Future
Trends
Open Access to Scientific and Technical
Information: State of the Art and Future
Trends
01/03/2004 09:28 AMOpen Access to Scientific and Technical Information: State of
the Art and Future Trendshttp://www.inist.fr
/openaccess/index_en.phphttp
://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0312/0173.htmlGerry McKiernan, New Year Librarian, Iowa State University, posted a
recent eMail stating that the audio visuals (slides, video, et.al)
were available for this previous well received and highly competetnt
conference on the current happenings and future trends in the access
to scientific and technical information. Gerry also stated that these
are important presentations that should be
required
viewing for every librarian (and those who wish they were).
National Institutes of Health proposes
full, open, public access to biomedical
research
National Institutes of Health proposes
full, open, public access to biomedical
research
09/09/2004 12:44 PM
The National
Institutes of Health is recommending that researchers who receive NIH funding make their
work available to the world for no cost six months
after completion:
Under the proposed policy, journal peer-review committees would vet
papers that report results from NIH-sponsored research. Once the
journal has edited and published the articles, editors would upload
them to a searchable Web site and NIH would make them publicly
available within 6 months.
The NIH initially recommended immediate publication, but
added the
six month embargo as a compromise with publishers, who argued that
immediate availability would
undermine their
business model.
(via Clara Yu
Hackers use Google to access
photocopiers - ZDNet UK News
Hackers use Google to access
photocopiers - ZDNet UK News
09/26/2004 09:00 AMFull
Story
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Wired News: New Outlet for High-Speed
Access
Wired News: New Outlet for High-Speed
Access
02/19/2004 10:02 AMNew Outlet for High-Speed Access ..
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News: Stock mkt tool SASS 1.4 adds
Internet access, more
News: Stock mkt tool SASS 1.4 adds
Internet access, more
03/30/2005 05:43 PMIntuitec Software has released version 1.4 of its Stock Analysis and
Selection Software (SASS), which can now access the Internet to obtain
financial data for publicly traded companies in the United States and
Canada, as well as retrieve stock ticker symbols for public companies
in 12 countries. SASS 1.4 saves data in the .ssg file format.
News: .Mac offers users free T-Mobile
Hotspot access
News: .Mac offers users free T-Mobile
Hotspot access
04/07/2005 10:10 AMApple's .Mac service's latest promotion for subscribers is a free
30-day trial account with T-Mobile's HotSpot Wi-Fi service. Available
in the U.S. through June 29, 2005, the promotion provides .Mac users
with full Internet access through T-Mobile's network of HotSpot Wi-Fi
access locations. T-Mobile HotSpot areas include many Starbucks
location, FedEx Kinko's Office and Print Centers, Borders Books &
Music, airports, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts and other locations. What's
more, if you sign up for the service's annual subscription plan,
you'll get 20 free songs from the iTunes Music Store.
Newly Launched Patent Database Opens
Free Search Access to IBM's Open Source
Software Patent Collection
Newly Launched Patent Database Opens
Free Search Access to IBM's Open Source
Software Patent Collection
02/01/2005 09:16 PMPatentCafe's Natural Language Based OSS Patent Search Engine™
Accelerates Software Developers' Use of IBM's 500 Pledged Patents.
Freely accessible by the entire OSS community, PatentCafe's Open
Source Software Patent Search Engine adds significant value to IBM's
contribution by accelerating the integration of IBM's patented
technology into the marketplace, helping to foster worldwide
interoperability standards. [PRWEB Feb 1, 2005]
Full Diclosure Network™ at the emmys
cable access news series takes coveted
award after 10 year struggle.
Full Diclosure Network™ at the emmys
cable access news series takes coveted
award after 10 year struggle.
08/06/2004 02:47 AMWith an upset win at the June 29th Los Angeles Emmy Awards, local
cable access series Full Disclosure Network™ made history by beating
out established Los Angeles TV broadcast news leaders to bring home
the gold. [PRWEB Aug 6, 2004]
Wired News: Open Up a Can of Spam
Wired News: Open Up a Can of Spam
01/18/2004 12:22 AMspammia saapuu postilaatikkoihimme enemmän kuin koskaan .. A
federal law intended to curb the scourge of junk e-mail .. Open Up a
Can of Spam .. incoming ..
Wired
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Other News: Open-Source Speech S/W
Other News: Open-Source Speech S/W
09/13/2004 10:33 AMIBM donates speech software to Apache and the Eclipse Foundation.
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