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This blog has been tackling the problem of Open Access, what it’s vision is and how to get a coherent movement. I’ve been excited to get a comment from Eric Raymond ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond ).
Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge - Open Access and Eric Raymond « petermr's blog
thesis
DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Summer 2010
Claims of the supposed disappearance of materiality in digital culture often entail a nostalgic reimagining of the supposedly embodied, personal or creative aspects of earlier writing technologies, including handwriting. Although handwriting was never a fully embodied writing technology, critics of transparent computer graphics often characterize it as such. This revisionist nostalgia for handwriting is evident not only in critical literature but also in contemporary graphical media such as video games.
Practically speaking, public access (i.e., free online access to research, for everyone) includes researcher access (free online access to research for researchers). The goal of providing "public access to publicly funded research" has a great deal of appeal (rightly) to both tax-paying voters and to politicians. So promoting open access as "public access" is a very powerful and effective way to motivate and promote the adoption of open access self-archiving mandates by public research funders such as NIH and the many other federal funders in the US that would be covered by the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA). All research worldwide, however, whether funded or unfunded, originates from institutions: The universal providers of research are the world's universities and research institutes. To motivate institutions to adopt open access self-archiving mandates for all of their research output requires giving them and their researchers a credible, valid reason for doing so.
Open Access Archivangelism
The Digital Object Identifier System
Welcome to the DOI ® System This is the web site of the International DOI Foundation (IDF), which provides information on the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) system and its activities. The DOI system provides a technical and social infrastructure for the registration and use of persistent interoperable identifiers for use on digital networks. The DOI system implements the Handle System and the indecs Framework .
Revues.org : portail de revues en sciences humaines et sociales
La Revue des sciences religieuses est une publication scientifique, rédigée et publiée par les enseignants-chercheurs de la faculté de Théologie catholique de Strasbourg. La revue aborde tous les champs disciplinaires de la théologie, du droit canonique et des sciences religieuses : l'exégèse, l'histoire, la théologie fondamentale et dogmatique, la pastorale et la pratique, l'éthique, la philosophie, les études œcuméniques.International Free and Open Source Software Law Review
The International Free and Open Source Software Law Review (IFOSS L. Rev.) is a collaborative legal publication aiming to increase knowledge and understanding among lawyers about Free and Open Source Software issues. Topics covered include copyright, licence implementation, licence interpretation, software patents, open standards, case law and statutory changes. The Editorial Committee is delighted to announce issue five of the 'International Free and Open Source Software Law Review' (IFOSS L. Rev.) is now available at http://www.ifosslr.org
DUKE (US) — Research with color-coding reveals that just a handful of cells from the embryo go on to create the pumping heart muscle of an adult zebrafish.
Futurity.org
Peer-reviewed literature is the lifeblood of the academic world. Most of the attention it attracts is focused on the reviewing of short articles for scientific journals, but university-run academic presses also subject entire books on a range of topics to the peer review process. Despite the poor experience that academic journals have had with open peer review, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the MIT Press had decided to give it a try, allowing an author to post chapters of a book to his blog in order to solicit feedback. The book itself was on computer games, but had a title worthy of author Noah Wardrip-Fruin's position as faculty in a department of communications: Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies . Wardrip-Fruin is also a contributor to Grand Text Auto , where his audience includes both game enthusiasts and developers.
Online peer review supplements, doesn't replace real thing
LDAP Series Part III - The Historical Secrets | Linux Journal
The origins of LDAP begin with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) based in Geneva. ITU began setting email standards which required a directory of names (and other information) that could be accessed across networks in a hierarchical fashion not dissimilar to DNS. The result of their work resulted in the X.500 series of standards which defined DAP (Directory Access Protocol), the protocol for accessing a networked directory service. Tim Howes, Steve Kille and Wengyik Yeong saw a better way to achieve the aims of ITU and published a proposal entitled X.500 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol in RFC 1487 during July 1993. Their abstract read as follows: