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OpenCourseWare: a value-added model?

As we discussed in class on Wednesday, the last decade has seen an international push for open access to research and educational information. The Budapest Open Access Initiative, launched out of an internationally attended meeting in 2001, outlined a collaborative … Continue reading

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The Research Works Act: the scientific researcher’s SOPA (minus the Wikipedia megaphone)

With SOPA and PIPA in hibernation, many are scanning the horizon for the next threat to open information exchange. For the scientific community, that new threat may already be here in the form of the Research Works Act (RWA), a bill … Continue reading

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