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articles · OA Academia in Repose
4/9/2008 17:42 · 20 votes · no comments
Seven Academic Open-Access Repositories Compared
Scientists and academics in general are more and more becoming convinced that research results should be shared rapidly and made easily accessible in order to allow for fruitful exchange of ideas and collaboration. Only this way can modern scholarly disciplines thrive. What's the lay of the field in practice however? I made a quick...
articles · Open Source vs. Copyright vs. Creative Commons vs. Open Access vs. Copyleft
21/8/2008 21:55 · 35 votes · 1 comment
The free Google Trends tool offers many possibilities. Let's compare the related concepts that concern us all at iCommons. What do we see when facing off "open source," "copyright," "Creative Commons," "open access" and "copyleft"? Googlers go for "open source" followed by "copyright." The remaining three concepts are relatively unknown. In other words, the Open Access movement...
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articles · Archaeologists Coming Out of the Cold
30/11/2007 15:30 · no comments
Archaeology is the study of the traces people from the past have left behind, both artifacts and less direct remains, which are then used to reconstruct how ancient societies functioned: politics, art, religion, economy, crafts, entertainment, etc. It takes dedication, specialization and painstaking study. Indiana Jones needn’t apply. As an academic profession it has an ivory...
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articles · Serbia: New Instructions and Law Regulations on Online Privacy
by Danica · voted on 29/8/2008 09:56 · 25 votes · no comments
Serbia’s Republic Agency for Telecommunications (RATEL) brought a new Internet and communications monitoring law on Internet traffic interception and redirection. There is strong disapproval from the Serbian Internet community.
This document of instructions defines technical requirements for authorised monitoring of some specific telecommunications and provides a list of duties...
articles · What's In A Name? The Double-Binds Inherent in Controlling Cultural Terms
by alli.fish · voted on 5/7/2008 05:57 · 38 votes · no comments
Almost every morning as I drink my first cup of morning coffee I go online to read the news, visit a few blogs (usually the less-than-thought provoking gossip blogs), and scan through my email. Without fail I collect several stories from each of these sources (even the gossip blogs!) relating to the bizarre attempts of various individuals and groups to determine who has the legal...
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articles · Open Visualisation in a Deluge of Data
by Wojciech Gryc, Five Minutes to Midnight · commented on 13/6/2008 15:16 · 32 votes · 2 comments
Social networking, blogging, tagging, recommender systems, and other collaborative technologies have changed the face of the Internet, and life as we know it. For sociologists, anthropologists, and even physicists and mathematicians, such services have provided a constant stream of data and information about the lives of millions of people. Like anyone who has observed a visualised...
calendar· Test Vertical Image Calendar
by marcusc · commented on 23/5/2008 15:21 · 1 comment
Test Vertical Image Calendar
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