The history of the University Press - 0 views
the university presses in the United States were by and large founded specifically for the publication of scholarship; in this sense, as Thompson points out, "they were generally seen as an integra...
the university presses in the United States were by and large founded specifically for the publication of scholarship; in this sense, as Thompson points out, "they were generally seen as an integra...
At United Arab Emirates they have published a fantastic Android application that might represent one aspect of the participatory culture. Any one can download it and be an active society member. Ci...
The spectacular rise late last year in the price of bitcoin, the dominant virtual currency, has attracted much public attention as well as scholarly interest. This policy brief discusses how some f...
The public good they make possible is the world-wide electronic distribution of the peer-reviewed journal literature and completely free and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, t...
TED Talks have a lot of good videos o relevant topics. This one on privacy makes excellent argument for privacy that we don't hear very often. Glenn Greenwald was one of the first reporters to s...
The Growth of Intellectual Property: A History of the Ownership of Ideas in the United States
Khan Academy has done some good work, but I certainly do not believe it is the solution to the nation's problems in education. A critique, by Karim Kai Ani, considers the videos to be poor, as well...
This article describes an Android application called "Doctors On-Demand." This particular app is available in the United States, but I know of similar apps for Canada. The general idea is that inst...
Dear Julia and Dilrukshi, Thank you for getting back to me and for your encouragement. I know it's been a while and this is not entirely good practice, but I would appreciate your feedback on the d...
Joseph Stiglitz has a really important term for me to define and understand what knowledge is, economically and culturally. He defines it as a global public good, on the sense that it is non rival ...
I like this idea from the article: "Authors who are not willing to get engaged on social media are missing out on a significant opportunity,"
Between 3,000-50,000 deaths occur in the US each year that are attributed to this disease, but by monitoring the rate of particular Wikipedia article views on a daily basis, researchers calculated ...