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The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) presents a current snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information around the world.For countries that have been more successful implementing Open Access, the portal highlights critical success factors and aspects of the enabling environment. For countries and regions that are still in the early stages of Open Access development, the portal identifies key players, potential barriers and opportunities.

Open Government Indonesia recently launched a new open data portal at data.id. Check out the blog for some examples of its uses.

Realice un Mooc sobre movimiento educativo abierto en coursera, alli conoci este portal en español con variados contenidos del tema, una opcion a considerar.

He realizado el mismo curso, fué muy útil, de hecho se va a implementar

Se trata de una iniciativa del Tecnológico de Monterrey, organización privada sin fines de lucro, institución académica con 65 años de experiencia. Surge como ...

While attending another work-related webinar, I heard about this web site and thought about this class. On the surface, this site looks like a portal to many, many other image and video repositories about the history and geography of the United States. Many are contributed by local public libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies. What caught my attention and connect to this course is that all the metadata of the repositories are open access, so that developers can take advantages of the metadata and create additional apps. In this sense, this site becomes a platform. The contents from the various repositories have different degrees of rights and restrictions for reuse, some are under CC, some are protected by copyright, but the metadata is all open!

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) launchd a new portal last week, providing technical terminology from patents in ten languages. This is an interesting way to help share knowledge and connect scientists who speak different languages. It has a really cool Concept Map Search function too!

"The I Quant NY blog mines NYC's massive data clearinghouse to visualize issues facing city dwellers, from education to eating."

The BCN Open Data Portal makes public the data generated by the Barcelona City Council, excluding those subject to privacy, property or security restrictions. Data are available to everyone in standard, open, digital formats, that are clearly structured and comprehensible. In my opinion, this is a valuable example of how governments at different levels (in this case the municipality, which is the level of government closest to the citizen), can make efforts to facilitate access to the great amount of data they collect and to encourage citizens to reuse them.

Información del artículo El Portal de datos abiertos de la Unión Europea: análisis y evaluación

this is an Public Colombian intitution, that is using the conected learnig as a tool but what see as a problem and a possible cause of inequality is thar in my contry only 10 million people have acces to the web. is this making the gap bigger.

Europeana has many resources that you may reuse with attribution ans different CC lisences.

"Foldit is a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research. This page describes the science behind Foldit and how your playing can help."

So I stumbled across this article while I was searching the internet regarding Indigenous Knowledge here in the Philippines. The article on this link provides further information regarding Indigenous Knowledge all over the world. It's a very interesting 12 page article which sheds light on various people under different tribes in different parts of the world.

Open Educational Resources For Secondary Schools in Norway. "Nasjonal digital læringsarena" - er et fellesinitiativ fra fylkeskommunene som har til hensikt å etablere fritt tilgjengelige, fullverdige, dynamiske fagnettsteder for alle fag i videregående opplæring.

The resources seem to be perfectly adopted to the classroom use. A fantastic collection!

The European Open Education Portal. Find open educational resources and exchanges best practices.

Thanks for sharing! The site reflects the current state of Open Education in Europe and contains lots of useful information.

Este documento hace un análisis del estado de la cuestión respecto al acceso abierto a la producción científica en las ciencias sociales en américa latina.