Category Archives: Open Source

The Access Principle

Posted on 2006-04-04 by scaife

Thanks to Peter Suber for pointing to Kate Corby’s review of Willinsky, John. (2006). The access principle: The case for open access to research and scholarship. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. It is unfortunate that many academics feel that assuring … Continue reading →

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“the look, feel, and functionality of Microsoft Word, in a completely web-based AJAX platform”

Posted on 2006-03-23 by scaife

Michael Robertson intends to offer six new Ajax applications, one each week, via his  ajaxLaunch.com site.  He’s begun with a new word processor, ajaxWrite.

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“some confuse praise for better DRM with praise for DRM”

Posted on 2006-03-23 by scaife

Lawrence Lessig comments on Sun’s new openDRM scheme.

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Most convincing endorsement of Creative Commons I have seen

Posted on 2006-03-22 by Gabriel Bodard

This week’s New Scientist has an interview with Cameron Sinclair, award-winning architect, founder of Architecture for Humanity, and winner of the Technology Entertainment Design conference award, who plans to spend the $100 000 prize building an open source databank of … Continue reading →

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DMCA: Circumventing Competition

Posted on 2006-03-21 by scaife

Circumventing Competition: The Perverse Consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by Timothy B. Lee Executive Summary The courts have a proven track record of fashioning balanced remedies for the copyright challenges created by new technologies. But when Congress passed … Continue reading →

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Survival of the Fittest – open source and sustainability

Posted on 2006-03-17 by Gabriel Bodard

“Sustainability” is really just another word for survival. Open source projects either survive or they do not. But what makes one project survive and another die? And does the answer matter? Open Source and Sustainability http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/events/2006-04-10-12/ The answer *does* matter. … Continue reading →

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LibriVox: free public domain audiobooks

Posted on 2006-03-10 by scaife

If you’re too cheap to subscribe to audible.com, and you’re about to take a long drive or plane ride, and you want something to listen to, there’s LibriVox.   The catalog shows completed books, short works (including some poetry), and works … Continue reading →

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On sending OA spatial data to Google Earth

Posted on 2006-02-16 by scaife

Declan Butler, Virtual globes: The web-wide world, Nature, February 15, 2006. Google Earth is becoming a platform for OA geospatial data. Butler explores how scientists are using GE and how –because GE is free, fun, and spectacular– this science is … Continue reading →

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DRM and academic publishing (GROKLAW)

Posted on 2006-02-14 by scaife

Roy Bixler, Digital Copyright Issues in Academic Publishing Bruce Barton, The tension between DRM and academic publishing (hat tip: Peter Gainsford)

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Useful review of OS software today

Posted on 2006-02-09 by scaife

Open-Source Users Break Free From Commercial Software

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Juxta

Posted on 2006-02-07 by scaife

Patacriticism has just released Juxta 1.0: Juxta is an open-source cross-platform tool for comparing and collating multiple witnesses to a single textual work. The software allows users to set any of the witnesses as the base text, to add or … Continue reading →

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Appropriate venues

Posted on 2006-02-02 by scaife

Peter Suber has done a useful service (again) in writing “Six things that researchers need to know about open access.” What?  Can’t find a journal that meets your needs?  Perhaps Scholarly Exchange can be brought into the picture.

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The Journal of Maps

Posted on 2006-02-02 by Tom Elliott

From the Journal of Maps website: The Journal of Maps [(ISSN 1744-5647)] is a new inter-disciplinary online, electronic, journal that aims to provide a forum for researchers to publish their maps. Using full peer review and a reverse publishing method … Continue reading →

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Gentium Unicode font featured on newsforge

Posted on 2006-02-01 by Tom Elliott

My post this morning to classics-l about Bruce Byfield’s newsforge article (Gentium: An award-winning font joins the free software world ) has sparked an interesting and informative discussion. Gist@newsforge: Gentium’s creator, Victor Gaultney, has re-released the useful and attractive font … Continue reading →

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Fair Use vs. Copyright Control

Posted on 2006-01-23 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Academic Commons: Will Fair Use Survive? Free Expression in the Age of Copyright Control In Fair Use Our new friends at the Institute for the Future of the Book gave me a nifty report called “Will Fair Use … Continue reading →

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