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Olga Huertas

7 propuestas para mejorar el acceso abierto en América Latina - 3 views

blogs.iadb.org/...ceso-abierto-en-america-latina

modulo 9

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  • Olga Huertas on 04 Nov 14
     
    América Latina avanza con paso firme hacia el Open Access pero todavía quedan desafíos importantes para que esta corriente se consolide. Los gobiernos ya parecen convencidos de que el acceso abierto es el futuro, y así lo demuestran las leyes de acceso abierto que se han aprobado en y .
  • Ignoramus OKMOOC on 16 Nov 14
     
    If Google Translate gets it right, the article suggests 7 ideas to promote open acces in Latin America: - Promote a culture of open access among the young - Invite the new generation of researchers to build a new set of rules governing scholarly communication.- - Manage national access strategies - Promote awareness of the potential of open access - Provide training to scientists regarding intellectual property - Improve and standardize the taxonomy of documents to increase their visibility - Help Open Access journals to gain prestige These will apply to all other regions of the world as well. It shoul be noted that much of it can be done by the indivdual researcher, while some will best be untertaken by universities or libraries or even the state.
jurado-navas

Is this the end for books? - 5 views

www.theguardian.com/...kindle-books

Module8 publishing open future

shared by jurado-navas on 09 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • jurado-navas on 09 Nov 14
     
    In 1996, the US computer entrepreneur Brewster Kahle set up the Internet Archive, its mission being to provide "universal access to all knowledge". This admirable project strives to store copies of every single web page ever posted: a ghostly archive of the virtual.
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  • jurado-navas on 09 Nov 14
     
    Apliquemos la ley de Clarke a estas predicciones. Si la predicción de los eminentes estudiosos de edad madura, y bibliófilos, se formula así: ES POSIBLE QUE EL LIBRO IMPRESO EN PAPEL NO DESAPAREZCA, y la ley de Clarke dice: "Cuando un científico pero de edad madura afirma que algo es posible, casi siempre estará en lo cierto. Cuando declara que algo es imposible, lo más probable es que se equivoque", la predicción casi siempre será cierta si esos libros no desaparecen. Si la predicción se formula en esta forma: ES IMPOSIBLE QUE EL LIBRO DESAPAREZCA, y los libros desaparecen, lo más probable es que se equivoquen. ¿Por cuál fórmula optamos? Apliquemos ahora la primera versión del corolario de Asimov a la predicción que augura el fin del libro formulada así: EL LIBRO ESTÁ MUERTO (O MORIRÁ), AUNQUE NO DEL TODO. El corolario dice: "Sin embargo, cuando el público profano se manifiesta en torno a una idea denunciada por científicos eminentes pero de edad madura, y apoya dicha idea con fervor y sentimiento, es posible, después de todo, que los científicos eminentes pero de edad madura estén en lo cierto". Por lo tanto: Es posible, después de todo, que los eminentes estudiosos pero de edad madura, y bibliófilos, estén en lo cierto. No hay más remedio que esperar a que pase el tiempo para ver si se cumplen la ley y los corolarios en las predicciones, enunciadas en una u otra forma. (Tomado de http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0025-76802012000200019)
  • ibudule on 17 Nov 14
     
    Thank you for posting. Although I am not very keen on reading fiction electronically, the article was very interesting and informative about the latest tendencies in electronic publishing.
  • nthabi on 17 Nov 14
     
    I am one of those people who like reading books electronically and enjoy it. Kindle has been around for some years now but we still have books publshed in paper format. There is still a number of people who prefare to have paper copy of a book. Books are here to stay. I have a kindle but I hardly ever use the devise. I use the app on my mobile, computer or Ipad.
koobredaer

Cory Doctorow's craphound.com " News - 4 views

craphound.com/

open access DRM publishing privacy

shared by koobredaer on 17 Sep 14 - Cached
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  • koobredaer on 17 Sep 14
     
    I wanted to share a OK resource: Cory Doctorow... yes a whole author as resource. He writes about open access on a number of different platforms and enacts open access in his published works. He is a YA novelist with many good books that explore many of the complex issues of society and technology that we are considering in this class. He sells his books through major publishers in print--but does not allow them to have DRM. But he also provides ebook copies for free on this website. Basically you can read it and remix it, but if you like it and want to support him--buy the book. This model seems to work for him. You can find him ranting about DRM and other open access issues all over the net, such as BoingBoing. Interesting guy, interesting topics--and some interesting free fiction books that are relevant to this class.
  • koobredaer on 17 Sep 14
     
    for a specific book suggestion, check out Little Brother http://craphound.com/littlebrother/ exciting SciFi all about online surveillance state, but also supposed to be filled with actual advice about how to hack your way around it and be a subversive, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Brother_%28Doctorow_novel%29
  • laertes1a on 18 Sep 14
     
    Thanks. I like this. I haven't read his stuff, but now I will.
koobredaer

Internet Archive: Live Music Archive (free music download, streaming, and preservation) - 4 views

archive.org/etree

module4 music archive internet archive free

shared by koobredaer on 24 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • koobredaer on 24 Sep 14
     
    One place the tradition of fans recording live shows and trading the bootleg tapes (ala the Grateful Dead) is being brought to the digital world is at archive.org's Live Music Archive Bands officially agree to allow the practice, and then archive.org stores and allows access to the files for eternity... Some info about those details: http://wiki.etree.org/index.php?page=TradeFriendly For example, here is my friends, a ROCKING bluegrass band from Duluth Minnesota: https://archive.org/details/TrampledbyTurtles The rights statement is actually an email: On February 7, 2007 Trampled by Turtles a GO! for archive.org: "Hello, This is Dave Simonett from Trampled by Turtles. I'm writing to give permission for our music to be posted at archive. Please let me know what you need from me. Thanks for the email. Dave Simonett trampled by turtles info@trampledbyturtles.com www.trampledbyturtles.com" "Welcome to Internet Archive's Live Music library. etree.org is a community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format. The Internet Archive has teamed up with etree.org to preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible for current and future..."
  • c maggard on 17 Nov 14
     
    Cool...
  • jesseharris on 17 Nov 14
     
    Awesome resource - thanks for sharing. I have often found the conflict between quality recordings and open access to be a challenge. It seems the music that is free isn't usually high-quality, whereas the higher quality isn't usually free. :)
michielmoll

Open resource for architecture - 1 views

http://architecturaldictionary.org/ Although Wikipedia is the most widely known open source source of information, there are also some extremely useful resources being placed for use by all. This ...

architecture open access dictionary

started by michielmoll on 18 Nov 14 no follow-up yet
pad123

Open Access Journal Hosting - UBC Library - 0 views

http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/ The UBC Library provides access to server space and to the open source OJS (Open Journal Systems) software for UBC faculty members who are editing or supporting Open Acc...

open access

started by pad123 on 18 Nov 14 no follow-up yet
koobredaer

Open standard, Mozilla news site about Open stuff - 0 views

openstandard.mozilla.org

publishing cc mozilla news

shared by koobredaer on 21 Oct 14 - No Cached
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  • koobredaer on 21 Oct 14
     
    published by Mozilla, covers all sorts of open news. Interesting feature: unlike most news sites the content is actually CC-by-sa. "The Open Standard provides online news coverage of open, transparent, and collaborative systems at work in technology and our daily lives. Our purpose is to showcase the positive global impact of these systems and inspire more people to seek out, support and adopt open principles of accessibility, participation and experimentation. The Open Standard is published by Mozilla, a global community of technologists, thinkers and builders working together to promote openness, innovation and opportunity online. We will disclose and be transparent if we take a position on or promote the products and services of Mozilla or a partner company."
  • koobredaer on 21 Oct 14
     
    for example, check out this article about companies collecting data on school kids, https://openstandard.mozilla.org/whos-collecting-kids-personal-data-lots-of-people/
  • c maggard on 17 Nov 14
     
    That is scary...
kamrannaim

OAIster - 1 views

www.oclc.org/oaister.en.html

open access' knowledge institutional repositories

shared by kamrannaim on 27 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • robert morris on 27 Sep 14
     
    Millions of digital resources from thousands of contributors
  • kamrannaim on 17 Nov 14
     
    OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. Access to these digital resources is provided by "harvesting" their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). It includes the Institutional Repositories of many universities.
anonymous

Open educational resources and the role of university - 0 views

www.educause.edu/...-resources-and-role-university

open education Module 7

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  • anonymous on 19 Nov 14
     
    This article gives opinion that university is playing an important role that will not be replaced by the open educational opinion, which I also agreed. Instead of considering OER as a threat to university, the article argues that "OER can help institutions provide higher education to rapidly increasing numbers of students and lifelong learners".
  • melduncan on 19 Nov 14
     
    Thank you for sharing the article Ming Tang. I think you make a great point about OER and the university working together as opposed to a "war of the roses" type scenario where a married couple refuses to work together. As the article mentioned the university is the one that gives the diploma and is the one that deals with accreditation inspections, etc. OER to me would make a nice complement on the arms of any university. Another good article along the same lines can be found at http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/impact-globalization-and-future-university.
  • anonymous on 19 Nov 14
     
    Thank you Melduncan2!
Kevin Stranack

Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software - 1 views

twobits.net/Kelty-TwoBits.pdf

module6 module4 technology open source software

shared by Kevin Stranack on 18 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Kevin Stranack on 18 Jun 14
     
    Christopher Kelty has written a book on the cultural importance of open source software and made it freely available under a CC license. It looks at free software from both a technical and social perspective, allowing for greater insights into its significance for today and for tomorrow.
  • Matt Tibble on 19 Nov 14
     
    This is a very interesting and thought provoking ebook. Not only does it provide a helpful historical view of how free software came to be, but it posits the impact of such a phenomenon on industry and culture. I particularity liked the view that the pervasiveness of free software - thanks to the Internet - is such that free software itself is instigating much change beyond its original perceived sphere of influence, being software applications. A good read if open source software, free software and impacts on culture interests you.
Kim Baker

Outernet aims to provide data to the net unconnected - 1 views

www.bbc.com/...technology-29593734

module11 digital divide

shared by Kim Baker on 18 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • victorialam on 18 Oct 14
     
    A timely article on the Outernet, a service that can broadcast e-books and culled information from the internet to less wealthy nations who do not have access to the internet. A few criticisms of the emerging technology do arise: addressing literacy in less developed locations, questioning whether the information broadcast is information that would be suited for that community, and finally whether there would be a prioritization of information with paid net-connected organizations.
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  • serrarouafae on 18 Oct 14
     
    This is good news for people living in regions of conflict and war-torn countries. have access to learning is the dream of many people
  • Kim Baker on 19 Nov 14
     
    "But what about for the many people in the world that lack internet connectivity? The answer is still yes - at least according to Syed Karim, who explained how at TEDGlobal. The entrepreneur had been invited to the human ingenuity-themed event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to speak about his company, Outernet. The business aims to address the fact that about two-thirds of the world's population still has no internet access."
  • ekw1993 on 19 Nov 14
     
    Thank you for posting this article about Syed Karim's TED talk as I had not seen it before and found it very interesting. With the outernet, I believe people living in places where this is inadequate or no access to the internet will be able to accrue information. However, I still believe more efforts need to be done to expand the web so that all can partake.
lenjomaydresden

open access and compensation for content creators - 5 views

Isn't it a privilege to do the work? those who freely share their work will finaly succed over those who want to Combine their work with personal power. Remember Popper saying about scientists they...

open access module5 john willinsky okmooc mooc open knowledge publishing

started by c maggard on 02 Oct 14 1 follow-up, last by lenjomaydresden on 20 Nov 14
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nivinsharawi

Fragmented Publishing: The Implications of Self-Publishing - 2 views

www.niso.org/...fragmented

module3 self-publishing ebooks libraries

shared by nivinsharawi on 27 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Kevin Stranack on 27 Jun 14
     
    Unfortunately, the webinar itself is not free, but the slides are here. In particular, Mark Coker of Smashwords provides a good overview of the trends and future for self-publishing.
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  • Leticia Lafuente López on 04 Oct 14
  • nivinsharawi on 20 Nov 14
     
    it is useful powerpoint thanks
  • nivinsharawi on 20 Nov 14
     
    read presentation
Jamie F

Open Access Scholarly Journal Directory - 4 views

scholarlyoa.com/publishers

#openaccess #module9 #knowledge #dissemination #scholarlyjournals #journal @academic

shared by Jamie F on 11 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • bor_14 on 11 Sep 14
     
    This list is a helpful tool for authors who are publishing their work in Open Access Journals. It is also helpful for librarians who are acting as advisors for Open Access publishing. Beall's List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers. This is a list of questionable, scholarly open-access publishers. It is recommended recommend that scholars read the available reviews, assessments and descriptions provided here, and then decide for themselves whether they want to submit articles, serve as editors or on editorial boards.
  • ilanab on 31 Oct 14
     
    The long list of predatory publishers and journals by Beall is quite daunting. Is this another indication of how cynical a person has to be in every aspect of life - even scholary pursuit? Thankfully there's a record to alert stakeholders of potentially unscrupulous publishers and unvalidated journals.
  • Jamie F on 21 Nov 14
     
    As I was working on my final project I found myself only able to name 1 OA Journal: PLOS. I wanted to know if there were any other big players in the game, much like the top commercial journals. As a result, google came up with the above site, which works like an index or directory for OA Journals. It's good to see in light of the difficulties that closed access journals have been causing in countries that are digitally divided from affluent ones. Hopefully with the growth of open access titles we will see the digital divide and information gap close. Happy browsing! And please post any other open access titles you have come across! Lets popularize them in our network! One more: http://doaj.org/
Dvora Marina Brodsky

Cultural Shift: Putting Critical Information Literacy Into Practice - 1 views

www.comminfolit.org/index.php

module10 critical_information_literacy

shared by Dvora Marina Brodsky on 08 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Dvora Marina Brodsky on 08 Nov 14
     
    Alison Hicks uses the example of foreign languages to explore the integration of critical information literacy into the curriculum of various disciplines. The paper provides an example of a librarian who integrated critical information literacy into curriculum and proposes that this approach could be effective in global learning initiatives.
anonymous

Google Defeats Authors in U.S. Book-Scanning Lawsuit - 2 views

This article explains the background surrounding the lawsuit between Google's digital book project and the Authors Guild. Many are familiar with Google Books, in which Google has scanned and digiti...

open access Open copyright digitization

started by anonymous on 11 Nov 14 2 follow-ups, last by anonymous on 11 Nov 14
c maggard

Bring developing companies on-board - 1 views

The overarching theme this week is getting developing countries on-board. The videos presented made a good argument, and rightly pointed out that the main consumers of MOOCs, and indeed to the tech...

open access knowledge module 11

started by c maggard on 11 Nov 14 no follow-up yet
Kevin Stranack

Developing world MOOCs: A curriculum view of the MOOC landscape - 21 views

joglep.com/...2._Developing_world_MOOCs.pdf

module11 module7 mooc knowledge

shared by Kevin Stranack on 18 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Kevin Stranack on 18 Sep 14
     
    "MOOCs offer opportunities but are also pose the danger of further exacerbating existing educational divisions and deepening the homogeneity of global knowledge systems."
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  • cvpido on 29 Sep 14
     
    in this article MOOC are considered as alternative for education in network society..I like the fact that MOOC's are coming to discussion edge http://digitalusers.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/the-digital-presidents-ultimate-challenge/
  • chacunin on 01 Oct 14
     
    Very interesting! Thanks. "MOOCs and MOOC-type courses have added a new dimension to the educational landscape by strengthening the non-formal educational space and providing opportunities to experiment with the disaggregated components of the educational experience"
  • mbittman on 02 Oct 14
     
    After watching the Willinsky video, this hit home even more. I think the value of quality education is extremely important, and creating a "global village" of learning is still in its growing pains. Having a face-to-face instructor/professor/facilitator lets you ask the questions that pop to mind and being in a classroom setting allows an idea to flow and develop into other ideas. There are a lot of social media tools that are familiar to a lot of students living in a Western culture, but those social tools are not always available to developing countries; many do not have access to schools or even have a computer - as this article indicates, MOOCs are certainly a venue that opens learning opportunities for those who do not have access to learning in a formal environment, but may have access to the internet. What I particularly found interesting were the various MOOC categories - Gateway: MOOCs for prepping to get into higher learning; Research showcase: promote an institute's research areas; Professional skills: MOOCs for those who need to "upskill" or specialize…and there are others. The main reason for taking this course was to improve my knowledge of what social media is out there (MOOCs are part of it), how it is being used, and how useful is this "new" media is within the publishing realm. It is a challenge.
ricbruno

Find OER | Open Professionals Education Network - 5 views

open4us.org/find-oer

OER access Knowledge Open

shared by ricbruno on 27 Sep 14 - No Cached
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  • ibudule on 27 Sep 14
     
    Very good collection of useful sites + instructions how to find Creative Commons licensed items
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  • cvpido on 27 Sep 14
     
    useful... thank you
  • ricbruno on 06 Nov 14
     
    Quite interesting guide on how to find relevant OER of different types and natures. «Reusing existing Open Educational Resources (OER) can save significant time and effort. The OPEN partners recommend TAACCCT grantees invest up-front time finding OER to reuse rather than starting development of new educational resources right away. A significant benefit of OER is that they provide source material to build your development efforts around.» Ricardo twitter: @ricbruno71
  • Matt Tibble on 10 Nov 14
     
    Really helpful go-to collection of links with explanations for each, and more than just image references (videos, sounds, etc). Great resource, thanks for sharing.
Diane Vahab

Open Course Ware - 1 views

https://www.class-central.com/university/uma Hay cuatro cursos ofrecidos en la Universidad de Malaga en forma de MOOC.

open access knowledge open MOOC courseware

started by Rosa Munoz-Luna on 01 Dec 14 1 follow-up, last by Diane Vahab on 02 Dec 14
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