Google’s Open Access Data Archive
Via the incredible Peter Suber, a Wired article about Google’s plans to host terabytes and terabytes of scientific data to which they will provide free and open access.
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CC0
Whether or not it was a response to my Open Education License draft is unimportant – Creative Commons has announced CC0 – the new CC license aimed at the public domain. CC0 is a Creative Commons project designed to promote and protect the public domain by 1) enabling authors to easily waive their copyrights in … Read more
Video from MIT OCW
It’s great to see open education getting press. (More will be coming next week!) At the recent MIT OCW Milestone Event the movement got a lot of praise from Tom Friedman of Flat World fame. Catch the video of Friedman’s keynote talk on OCW over at YouTube.