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"Open access to 584,546 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics Subject search and browse: 21 Jan 2010: Collaborative support plan announced 8 Apr 2009: Added public author identifiers, Facebook interaction, myarticles widget, and personal Atom feeds See cumulative "What's New" pages Robots Beware: indiscriminate automated downloads from this site are not permitted"

Doctorow's summary in his newsletter: "My latest Locus column, "Special Pleading," talks about the damned-if-you-do/ damned-if-you-don't nature of free ebook scepticism. When I started out giving away my print novels as free ebooks, critics charged that it only worked because I was so obscure that I needed the exposure. Now that I've had a book on the NYT bestseller list, a new gang of critics claim my strategy only works so well because I'm established and can afford to lose sales to free ebooks. The arguing tactic is called "special pleading," and it's a dirty rhetorical trick indeed!"

"Though Open Access publication and Creative Commons licensing were not mentioned as issues by the people who participated in the DICE survey, several replies deal with germane issues: see cases THETA-MU in the "Per cominciare..." section of the handbook. The concern about protection expressed in THETA, IOTA and KAPPA is answered in Chapter B [check "B" in final version - calmansi calmansi just now] of this handbook: works such as those mentioned in these replies are automatically protected by copyright law once they have been expressed, and this protection also obtains for works expressed in digital form, and offered online. Open Access publishing and of Creative Commons licensing are particular uses of copyright law. As we shall see in what follows, they can help towards the communal sharing wished for by the author of LAMBDA, and the literature about their implementation can be of use in solving the conundrums of third parties' rights evoked by the author of MU. Open Access The main Swiss higher education authorities have signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access. This is a great progress for research. It also means that all publications by teachers and researchers - and all theses by students - of Swiss academic and higher education institutions must be made available in Open Access repositories, following the rules stated in by the Berlin Declaration: 1. The author(s) and right holder(s) of such contributions grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship (community standards, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work, as they do now), as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use. 2. A complete

"Imagine a world where anyone can instantly access all of the world's scholarly knowledge - as profound a change as the invention of the printing press. Technically, this is within reach. All that is needed is a little imagination, to reconsider the economics of scholarly communications from a poetic viewpoint."

"Home | Collection | Further information | Links | Contact Universitätsbibliothek Bern DigiBern - Bernese Culture and History on the Web DigiBern is a web offer by the University Library of Berne and includes digitized texts and maps pertaining to the history and culture of Berne city and the canton of Berne. Digibern has been online since 2002. So far, the most widely spread and used printed texts have been digitized. The documents are fully searchable for keywords. They can be traced via the index on the DigiBern web site. Moreover, they are indexed and web linked in the online library catalog IDS Basel/Bern. Digibern is freely available worldwide to scholars and the public. "

"Literaturhinweise * Literaturhinweise SFEM 2009 Links * Open Educational Practices and Resources. OLCOS Roadmap 2012 * Open Access. Chancen und Herausforderungen - ein Handbuch. * Berliner Erklärung über den offenen Zugang zu wissenschaftlichem Wissen * OECD/CERI, Giving Knowledge for Free. The Emergence of Open Educational Resources Print This Page"

"Die Schweizerische Stiftung für audiovisuelle Bildungsangebote SSAB versteht sich als Netzwerk. In ihr finden sich führende Organisationen und Institutionen der Aus- und Weiterbildung, des Sozialwesens und der Wirtschaft, Vertreterinnen von Frauenorganisationen sowie Verantwortliche von Radio, Fernsehen, Presse und der neuen Medien zusammen. Die SSAB hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, wichtige richtungsweisende Themen unserer Zeit aufzugreifen und aufzuarbeiten. Eine besondere Stärke der Stiftung liegt im Medienverbund. In Zusammenarbeit mit Radio, Fernsehen, Print- und neuen Medien kann die SSAB für eine starke mediale Präsenz sorgen und auf die öffentliche Diskussion einwirken. Die SSAB nutzt die Möglichkeiten internationaler Zusammenarbeit, denn gerade bei den elektronischen Bildungsmedien ist der Austausch mit europäischen Partnern wichtig, um Erfahrungen zu teilen und Synergien auszuschöpfen. "

"This year at the 2009 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference we saw an increase in both international and corporate partner participation; standing ovations for two of our general session keynotes; an extremely active Twitter backchannel; fantastic presentations; participants engaging in new ways at the Thursday night event, such as Ignite!-inspired sessions and the Black Box Theatre improv; and numerous examples of you networking with your colleagues all throughout the conference space, making new contacts and connections for the coming year. Our full conference attendance boasted 3,700+, along with just under 2,400 exhibitor registrations. We also piloted our first annual online companion event, which ended up being a success thanks to great speakers and content, as well as valuable interaction with campuses across the world. ... Unless otherwise noted, EDUCAUSE holds the copyright on all materials published by the association, whether in print or electronic form. In certain cases the work remains the intellectual property of the individual author(s) (see Special Circumstances). Content from conference speeches, presentations, blogs, wikis and feeds reflect the opinions of the author, and not necessarily those of EDUCAUSE or its members. "

"The oldest Koran translation The oldest Koran translation preserved dates from 1143. At the request of Peter the Venerable, abbot of Cluny, it was prepared in Toledo by the polyglot British scholar Robert of Ketton (Robertus Ketenensius, mistakenly referred to as Robertus Retenensis or Robert of Chester). He was assisted by a native Arabic speaker. Several manuscripts reflect the significance of this Latin translation for Western involvement with Islam. Exactly four centuries after the translation originated, it was prepared for publication by the Zurich theologian Theodor Bibliander. In 1543, after fierce debate and mediation on the part of Martin Luther, it was issued by the famous Basle publishing house of Johannes Oporinus. The huge demand for this work led to a second printing seven years later. "

"...If rights remain as tightly controlled and as expensive as they are now, nonfiction will be the province of the entirely new or the overly familiar. Dazzling books with newly created art, text and multimedia will far outnumber works filled with historical materials. Only a few well-heeled companies will have the wherewithal to create gee-whiz multimedia book-like products that require permissions, and these projects will most likely focus on highly popular subjects. History's outsiders and untold stories will be left behind. We treat copyrights as individual possessions, jewels that exist entirely by themselves. I'm obviously sympathetic to that point of view. But source material also takes on another life when it's repurposed. It becomes part of the flow, the narration, the interweaving of text and art in books and e-books. It's essential that we take this into account as we re-imagine permissions in a digital age. When we have a new model for permissions, we will have new media. Then all of us - authors, readers, new-media innovators, rights holders - will really see the stories that words and images can tell. "