Archive for December 19th, 2007

More on ‘open’

December 19, 2007

Open Yale Courses‘ debuts online and MIT OpenCourseWare Publishes 1,800th Course. Thes courses are published under a Creative Commons license, ie. these courses are free to consult and to copy.

Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data

December 19, 2007

Science Commons announces the Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data
“The Protocol is a method for ensuring that scientific databases can be legally integrated with one another.”
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Google’s knol

December 19, 2007

Google starts with a new service ‘knol’ (webspeak for ‘knowledge’) to contribute knowledge led by specialists.
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Zotero and the Internet Archive Join Forces

December 19, 2007

The Zotero-IA alliance will create a “Zotero Commons” into which scholarly materials can be added simply via the Firefox plugin Zotero. Read more …