A Merry Christmas for Open Access!

From http://www.sciencecodex.com/public_access_mandate_made_law: President Bush has signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2007 (H.R. 2764), which includes a provision directing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide the public with open online access to findings from its funded research. This is the first time the U.S. government has mandated public access to research … Read more

Wrapping the Intro to Open Ed Class

What an experience! For all the wonderful comments that have come out of the last bit of writing about the course, I can assure you that no one has enjoyed it more than I have. The OpenEd Italian Group created a great presentation summarizing their thoughts and feelings about the course. What teacher could ask … Read more

Wikipedia to Become Creative Commons Compatible!

Head straight to the transcript of Jimmy’s announcement, which also includes video. Also read the official Mediawiki Foundation resolution. From the transcript of Jimmy’s announcement: “We’re going to change the GFDL in such a way that Wikipedia will be able to become licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.” So they’re changing the GFDL itself. … Read more