Tag: Open Access

Apr 19 2008

Europe, Open Access, Technology, Web 2.0, World

Commonwealth of Learning

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The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is a collaboration, started in 1989, of the 53 Commonwealth head’s of state to promote open and distance learning (ODL), as well as sharing resources...

Apr 15 2008

Digital, Libraries, Open Access, World

Memoria Chilena

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Memoria Chilena is a project under Chile’s DIBAM (Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos) to help gather book, photographs, music and other works which have helped form national identity. A...

Feb 14 2008

bi/multilingual, Databases, Digital, Europe, Language, Libraries, Maps, Open Access, Photographs, World

The European Digital Library project has been working since September 2006 on creating a portal to gather digital collection from National Libraries around Europe, including Belgium, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein,...

Feb 13 2008

Databases, Digital, Law, Libraries, Open Access, USA

Harvard Faculty Embrace Open Access

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Yesterday The Harvard Crimson published an Op-Ed by Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library, who has set the groundwork to create an Office...

Feb 06 2008

Databases, Manuscripts, Open Access, USA

Stephen J. Gould bequeaths his collection to Stanford

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The late Stephen J. Gould has bequeathed his entire collection to Stanford University, who intends to digitize much of it and create a “hyperlinked” version of it. An article in...

Jan 25 2008

Archives, Databases, Open Access, USA, World

Memory Archive

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Memory Archive is an online project that is gathering memoirs from everyday people. The site allows you to search for memoirs indexed for particular words (either in the title or...

Jan 24 2008

Archives, Europe, Libraries, Open Access, Photographs, Technology, USA, Web 2.0, World

The Commons

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I started out being hesitant to go down the road that is making OPACs and other library related tools look more like Google, Amazon.com and the like, but the more...

Jan 06 2008

Archives, Digital, Manuscripts, Open Access, Public Libraries, Technology, USA

Government Documents at the BPL to be Digitized

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The Boston Public Library (BPL) has joined forces with PublicResource.org and the Internet Archive in order to begin digitizing the library’s large collection of government documents. This project has first...

Dec 21 2007

Databases, Digital, Europe, Open Access, Technology, USA, World

Million Book Project

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As the year comes to an end the Million Book Project has reached its goal of scanning and making freely available a million books! This project is spearheaded by the...

Dec 21 2007

Open Access, Technology, USA, World

OLPC out in the World

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After 5 years of planing and development the “$100 Laptop” is finally making its way out into the real world! One of the first countries where the XO, as it...