Science — Brown 290 (5497): 1701 by James Robert Brown, professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
This is a classic article from December 2000, well cited, and worth revisiting today.
Teaching and research at universities is increasingly funded from private sources. In this essay, Brown highlights the problems associated with this approach and [...]
American-Scientist-E-PRINT-Forum: UC’s Richard Atkinson in Chronicle of Higher Education
Stevan Harnad, the most vocal proponet of open access to scholarly journal literature, replies here to
“A New World of Scholarly Communication” By Richard C. Atkinson, The Chronicle Review Volume 50, Issue 11, Page B16 [available to subscribers at http://chronicle.com/weekly/v50/i11/11b01601.htm].
Harnad comments on toll-access and research-impact, library [...]
On the Web, Research Work Proves Ephemeral
By Rick Weiss,
Washington Post,
Monday, November 24, 2003; Page A08.
Another newspaper article about the problem of changed URLs, papers removed from the web, etc.
It notes that “of the 2,483 British government Web sites, for example, 25 percent change their URL each year, said David Worlock of Electronic Publishing Services Ltd. [...]
Al-Ahram Weekly | Books Supplement | Vegetal and mineral memory: The future of books
“The city of Alexandria played host on 1 November to the renowned Italian novelist and scholar Umberto Eco, who gave a lecture in English, on varieties of literary and geographic memory, at the newly opened Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Al-Ahram Weekly publishes the complete [...]
EDN – The war on copying
By Nicholas Cravotta
EDN Magazine 10/16/2003.
This magazine that deals with electrical design has a thoughtful cover story on Digial Rights Management (DRM) that discusses the social issues as much as the technical issues.
Many companies mistakenly focus on the technology when trying to understand DRM and fail to consider the real social [...]
The Register
“Will December make or break the Internet?”
By Kieren McCarthy
Nov. 24, 2003.
In December,
the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) will bring together the heads of over 60 governments to discuss governance of the Internet. “The United States, Europe and English-speaking partners such as Australia favour the existing private-company organisation, ICANN. Whereas [...]
NARA | JFK Assassination Records | Warren Commission Report
National Archives provides a web verson of the Warren Commission report. “Web version based on Report of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1964. 1 volume, 888 pages. The formatting of this Web version may [...]
beSpacific: The Real Price Associated With Free Web Applications
Senate Passes Bill to Curb Spam (TechNews.com)
Washington Post. November 25, 2003.
By David McGuire.
Ready to have your mind blown? Here’s an interesting annual study done by Peter Lyman and Hal R. Varian for the UC Regents entitled, “How Much Information?”. The study found that:
–Print, film, magnetic, and optical storage media produced about 5 exabytes of new information in 2002. Ninety-two percent of the new information was stored on [...]
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