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The employees who do the actual work in IT can use all the help they can get; these open source tools are handier than most

On data sharing in computational drug discovery and the need for data notes [v1; ref status: not peer reviewed, http://f1000r.es/4qi] Author affiliations Department of Life Science Informatics, B-IT, LIMES Program Unit Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Dahlmannstr, Bonn, D-53113, Germany Grant information: The author(s) declared that no grants were involved in supporting this work.

When you hear open source software, what do you think of?

Here is a list of the core readings and additional resources for each module from the Open Knowledge Changing the Global Course of Learning MOOC--a partial textbook for the course.

Sitios muy interesantes: http://mcpress.media-commons.org/plannedobsolescence/five-the-university/the-history-of-the-university-press/ http://www.amacad.org/publications/spring2002/hesse.pdf http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/1/1-22/1.full.pdf+html http://www.ccel.org/ccel/benedict/rule2/files/rule2.html#ch33 http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/9780262512664_Download_the_full_text.pdf

thanks for sharing this

Why invest lots of time, effort and energy creating new course materials from scratch when quality, freely-available resources may already exist? Why not adapt and use these resources, known as Open Educational Resources (OER)?

This is a long report (105 pages). It discusses the role of openness in science, mandate for change, and it gives recommendations to the roles that government, institutions and individuals can take on.

Although 'open' is used in MOOC name, this questions how the actual course material could be made truly open for adaptation or redistribution. The commentary below the article is interesting too

A brief article for an overview of MOOCs. Since the 1990s massive open online courses (MOOCs) have offered web-based learning on a large scale and with open access. The leading MOOC providers in 2014 - Udemy, Coursera and edX - vary in detail but share the goal of facilitating learning for unlimited audiences at no cost or minimal charge, overcoming socioeconomic hurdles and opening education to all.

Good article! I wonder what it would take to make education truly accessible for all?

Librarian site from New Zealand. It's still far from comprehensive but it can provide a good start if you're looking for stuff to try. FOSS4LIB is a much larger directory of library-specific open-source projects you might also look at.

I've used Greenstone, Koha, and Wordpress, and while Wordpress is the easiest to use, I find it the least "library-esque" of the three. Koha is excellent once you get started, and has barcode-scanning built in, which can be very useful. Greenstone I've only just started to look at, but is fairly user-friendly once you get started and has a huge community of users that can help with any number of add-ons and tutorials. Great article!

Thanks, great stuff. I created a blog using WordPress.

Cape Town, 10 December 2013 - This is a presentation to the combined 3rd Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest and Open A.I.R. Conference on Innovation and IP in Africa, www.openair.org.za/capetown2013.

Well-written article on open sources and open learning. It discusses what the future holds and how the next step must be to converge technology, ideas/content and resources even further.

Comparto algunas ideas sobre este curso :D