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Learn open practices at School of Open. Why "open"? Universal access to and participation in research, education, and culture is made possible by openness, but not enough people know what it means or how to take advantage of it. A collaboration with the public. Learning about "open". Stand-alone courses that can be worked through at your own pace at any time, with or without others Facilitated courses that run for a set period of weeks with an organizer that provides feedback and facilitates discussion Get involved. Sign up for announcements.

160 Free Textbooks: A Meta Collection Free textbooks (aka open textbooks) written by knowledgable scholars are a relatively new phenomenon. Below, find a meta list of 200 Free Textbooks, and check back often for new additions. Also see our online collection, 1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities. Art History A Textbook of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke, Rutgers Biology Anatomy and Physiology – Edited by various profs at OpenStaxBiology – Edited by various profs at OpenStaxBiology Pages, John W. Business and Management Business Ethics by Jose A. Chemistry Chemistry, Grades 10-12, Created by the FHSST Project (Free High School Science Texts)Chemistry Virtual Textbooks by Stephen Lower, Simon Fraser UniversityCK-12 Chemistry (Grades 9-12) by multiple authors. Classics Computer Science & Information Systems Earth Science CK-12 Earth Science for Middle School by multiple authors.Earth Systems, an Earth Science Course (Grades 9-10). Economics & Finance Education Electrical Engineering Engineering History Languages

Free ebooks - Project Gutenberg The Digital Public Library of America: adding gravitas to your Internet search One year ago, a group of professors, librarians, and futurists gathered in San Francisco to discuss how they would go about building a Digital Public Library of America. There were still many questions about the project, which had millions of dollars in charitable funding but hadn’t yet meted out a complete vision of its incarnation. The directors cited Europeana and Wikipedia as examples, but they weren’t sure how a digital library would tackle the problems unique to using published content in America. Despite the hurdles ahead, the founders of the DPLA promised at that conference that a live website would launch in April 2013, come hell or high water. The founders of the DPLA made good on their promise this week. A lot of these conflicts are still being sorted out by the DPLA community. Let’s get together The newly-named Executive Director of the DPLA, Dan Cohen, has no illusions about the difficulty of the task ahead. It’s so meta Not everything works smoothly, of course.

A Big List of 875 Free Courses From Top Universities: 27,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures In recent months, we’ve enhanced what’s now a list of 875 Free Online Courses from top universities. Here’s the lowdown: Our big list of free courses lets you download audio & video lectures from schools like Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford, Harvard and UC Berkeley. Generally, the courses can be accessed via YouTube, iTunes or university web sites. Right now you’ll find 100 free philosophy courses, 67 free history courses, 90 free computer science courses, and 47 free Physics courses on the list, and that’s just beginning to scratch the surface. Here are some highlights from the complete list of free online courses. Again, the complete list of Free Online Courses is here. Related Content: 550 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free 635 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc. Learn 46 Languages Online for Free: Spanish, Chinese, English & More 500 Free eBooks: Download Great Books for Free

videolectures.net - videolectures.net PLoS Collections: Article collections published by the Public Library of Science The healthy adult body hosts ten times as many microbial cells as human cells, including bacteria, archaea, viruses, and eukaryotic microbes resident on nearly every body surface. The metagenome carried collectively by these microbial communities dwarfs the human genome in size, and their influences on normal development, diet and obesity, immunity, and disease are under active research. Funded by the National Institutes of Health Common Fund, the Human Microbiome Project (HMP) was established to provide a comprehensive baseline of the microbial diversity at 18 different human body sites. The Human Microbiome Project Collection encompasses publications from consortium members generating, leveraging, and exploring these resources. Accompanying the Collection are the following freely accessible consortium articles published outside of the PLoS family of journals: PLoS Collections: The Human Microbiome Project Collection (2012) www.ploscollections.org/hmp

Ecomine, la veille et les actualités sur le marché des métaux Accès aux contenus de la page (appuyer sur "Entrée") Ministère de l'écologie, du développement durable et de l'énergie Accueil du site > Eau et Biodiversité > Mines et ressources minérales > Ecomine, la veille et les actualités sur le marché des métaux > Ecomine, la veille et les actualités sur le marché des métaux Eau et Biodiversité Ecomine, la veille et les actualités sur le marché des métaux 11 avril 2013 - Eau et biodiversité Share on facebook Share on twitter More Sharing Services Share on email ECOMINE est la revue du secteur des matières premières minérales. Elle présente chaque mois une synthèse de l’actualité internationale des minerais et métaux. Pour en savoir plus Nouveau ! Retrouvez tous les thèmes

Wikibooks 100 Websites You Should Know and Use In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? We think so. Below, the 2013 edition of the 100 websites to put on your radar and in your browser. To see the original list, click here. And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH. Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. La Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren est le plus grand organisme de recherche allemand. Elle est composée de 15 centres de recherches indépendants dans le domaine des sciences naturelles et de la médecine. Centres de recherche membres[modifier | modifier le code] Les différents centre de recherche membre de la Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft. Les membres de la Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren sont : Notes et références[modifier | modifier le code] ↑ avant : Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung (GBF).↑ avant : Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle (UFZ). Voir aussi[modifier | modifier le code] Liens externes[modifier | modifier le code] Site internet de la Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren

05/18 > BE Inde 49 > L'Inde devance la Chine pour la qualité des publications scientifiques Publications ScientifiquesL'Inde devance la Chine pour la qualité des publications scientifiques L'Inde se place devant la Chine en ce qui concerne la qualité (évaluée par le nombre de citations) de ses publications scientifiques, alors même que le pays reste en retard concernant la quantité de ses publications. Selon l'étude réalisée par Elsevier, un des leaders mondiaux dans les publications médicales et scientifiques, le facteur de citations est passé de 2 à 2.7 durant les cinq dernières années pour les publications réalisées par des scientifiques indiens. A titre de comparaison, les articles produits par les scientifiques chinois atteignent un facteur moyen de citation de 2.2.

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