This article re-emphasizes the fact that traditional lectures are ineffective ways of conveying new knowledge. This article takes the next step and emphasizes the importance of digital media and on...
An important perspective on open access. From the article, "Despite being freely available on the Web, research articles are not by default linguistically or conceptually accessible to the global p...
started by Raúl Marcó del Pont on 18 Sep 14
1 follow-up, last by Kevin Stranack on 18 Sep 14
Even though it has now been proven that traditional lectures is one of the most ineffective ways of conveying knowledge, they will not be completely eliminated. This article concludes that being ta...
I was looking for some time a scientific article on Open Data and Science, so thank you for sharing it with us.
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...
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 ...
For anyone that read the article "Text is free, we make our money on volume", here is the Doctorow article mentioned. Enjoy! http://www.forbes.com/2006/11/30/cory-doctorow-copyright-tech-media_cz_...
My training is a a journalist. I spent many years as a broadcaster, getting out of the business just as myspace was taking hold. Fortunately, I did not have to open myself up to further invasions ...
It is not a topic I know, but: http://firstmonday.org/article/view/2155/2060 http://firstmonday.org/article/view/2291/2070 https://files.nyu.edu/dl80/public/chap11.doc regards
According to this article "The CCC Position on Bill C-32, the Copyright Modernization Act", the CCC, which is an alliance of 16 professional associations of work creators, and represents the positi...
Mel- I spent my formative years in the UK, and as such, despite being American, emotionally and intellectually I identify more as British (just hold the Marmite...). So much of what is happening t...
http://newstyleofit.ft.com/article/embracing-the-new-style-of-IT/?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral "A New Style of IT is emerging because of the convergence of four mega trends of Cloud, Mob...
Antonella Esposito (http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3881) reflexiona sobre el papel de las prácticas y las limitantes institucionales, en este caso académicas, sobre la selecci...
started by Raúl Marcó del Pont on 02 Sep 14
1 follow-up, last by Kim Baker on 03 Sep 14
I am attaching the webpage of a very intresting article on Peer Instruction. Eric Mazur developed a very intresting teaching and learning method, based on interactive learning. I find this article...
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/02/us-white-house-announces-open-access-policy.html The speaker in the video talk about one of the mail stones that the open access group has riches during 2013 in...
Even though this article tries to convince you how easy it is to become a millionaire by self-publishing your book online it is not entirely true. The key point is that printing and producing costs...
NISO Summer 2014 issue of Information Standards Quarterly http://www.niso.org/publications/isq/2014/v26no2/ This is a themed issue on the topic of Open Access Infrastructure. „The question is no l...
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I have also used Ubuntu and liked it very much.Here is an interesting article indicating 10 reasons to choose Ubuntu 12.10 over Windows 8 http://www.pcworld.com/a...
