Tag: Open Access

Oct 18 2007

Digital, Europe, Language, Libraries, National Libraries, Open Access, Technology, USA, Web 2.0, World

World Digital Library

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A World Digital Library is coming together after an agreement signed yesterday between Abdul Waheed Khan, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Communications and Information, and James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress...

Oct 03 2007

Europe, Open Access, World

Master Pieces Help Scientist Study Climate

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Being that we can’t go back in time to study previous climate patterns, Prof. Zerefos of the National Observatory of Athens has begun a study of old master pieces to...

Sep 13 2007

Databases, Open Access, World

The Red List

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The latest update of the Red List of Endangered species is bringing attention to a number of new animals now threatened with extinction. According to the World Conservation Union, we...

Aug 29 2007

Archives, Digital, Open Access, Photographs, Technology, USA, World

Apollo Moon Photographs

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In the 1970’s the various Apollo missions took a number of highly detailed photographs of the moon which have been seen only by a handful of scientist. For three decades...

Jul 31 2007

Databases, Digital, Libraries, Open Access, Technology, USA, Web 2.0, World

Open Library

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Open Library is a new project starting out in San Francisco, CA, but global in scope. It aims at creating a single database for all book ever published! This massive...

May 11 2007

Databases, Digital, Open Access, Technology, USA, Web 2.0, World

Encyclopedia of Life

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Later this year the project to create an Encyclopedia of Life will pick up speed for this ambitious project. The encyclopedia was first proposed by scientist E.O. Wilson who wished...

May 04 2007

Databases, Digital, Libraries, Open Access, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

April 16 Archive

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Just a couple of weeks after the incidents at Virginia Tech, the university’s Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) with help from George Mason University’s Center for History of...

May 01 2007

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

eFIL – Electronic Information For Libraries

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Yesterday I attended a fascinating lecture on eIFL which is an independent consortium for library consortia. Basically what it does is help libraries in the developing world access online journals...

Apr 04 2007

Open Access, Technology, USA, World

OpenCourseWare in Chinese

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As mentioned in a previous post, OpenCourseWare is a project which aims at providing high quality educational material on the web for free. Lucifer Chu, a man who became wealthy...

Mar 12 2007

Law, Open Access, Technology, USA

OpenCourseWare

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I’m still not over my fascination with open source, so here is more on the subject… I just learned about the OpenCourseWare which “is a free and open digital publication...