DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 29 2008 | Open Access, open source, organisation
The Free Knowledge Institute (FKI) is a non-profit organisation that fosters the free exchange of knowledge in all areas of society. Inspired by the Free Software movement, the FKI promotes freedom of use, modification, copying and distribution of knowledge in four different but highly related fields: education, technology, culture and science.
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 24 2008 | Research Data, Finland, Open Access
Open Access to and Reuse of Research Data –
The State of the Art in FinlandMotivated by OECD's open access guidelines (and funded by the Ministry of Education) the Finnish Data Archive carried out an online survey targeting professors of human sciences, social sciences and behavioural sciences in Finnish universities. The aim of this survey was to chart how the universities in Finland have organised the depositing of digital research data and to what extent the data are reused by the scientific community after the
original research has been completed.Professors were asked, for example, whether their department had any guidelines on the preservation of digital research data. A great majority (90%) said no.
The URL of this article is: http://www.fsd.uta.fi/julkaisut/julkaisusarja/FSDjs07_OECD_en.pdf
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Create Change is an educational initiative that examines new opportunities in scholarly communication, advocates changes that recognize the potential of the networked digital environment, and encourages active participation by scholars and researchers to guide the course of change.
It was developed by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and is supported by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). - DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 18 2008 | open data, Open Access
The Open Knowledge Definition (OKD) sets out principles to define the 'open' in open knowledge. The term knowledge is used broadly and it includes all forms of data, content such as music, films or books as well any other type of information.
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 13 2007 | research data, articles, Open Access, institutional repositories
Interoperability for the Discovery, Use, and Re-Use of Units of Scholarly Communication - CT Watch article on some new work with relevance to complex/compound objects in repositories
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 25 2007 | institutional repositories, Open Access, Netherlands, KNAW
NARCIS - The Gateway to Dutch Scientific Information
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 11 2007 | SHERPA, institutional repositories, Open Access
SHERPA is investigating issues in the future of scholarly communication. It is developing open-access institutional repositories in a number of research universities to facilitate the rapid and efficient worldwide dissemination of research.
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 26 2007 | Open Access, blogs
"The Hewlett Foundation has announced that it is working with the Creative Common's ccLearn division to build a web search portal dedicated to open educational resources, with the assistance of Google. ...The initiative's goal is to build a comprehensive directory of open educational resources, encouraging their broader discovery and use."
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 26 2007 | Open Access, institutional repositories
ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies) - tracks the growth of institutional self-archiving policies.
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 06 2007 | Open Access, open data
CKAN is developed and maintained by the Open Knowledge Foundation.It is a registry of open knowledge packages and projects (and a few closed ones). CKAN is the place to search for open knowledge resources as well as register your own
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