This seems to todays zeitgeist.
The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.
And, if you have iTunes, go to
podcasts -> education -> higher education
to see lots of (mostly free) higher ed. podcasts!
ResearchChannel is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 by a consortium of leading research universities, institutions and corporate research centers dedicated to creating a widely accessible voice for research through video and Internet channels.
In addition to health and medical sciences, computer science and engineering, more than 30% of the content is in arts, humanities, and social sciences.
ResearchChannel has a video library of over 1300 full-length programs available for
webcast and searchable on-demand.
The University Channel makes videos of academic lectures and events from all over the world available to the public. It is a place where academics can air their ideas and present research in a full-length, uncut format.
Already available: The Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement, The Pope and the Future of Religion and Politics, How Unequal Can America Get Before We Snap? …and much more!
Slashdot reports
“Two prominent science fiction authors have recently released their newest novels as free downloads to coincide with their in-store releases.”
The Forum on Privatization and the Public Domain
The goals of the Forum are to:
Create a public voice on the issues raised by the relentless expansion of what are considered to be patentable products, processes, discoveries, inventions and appropriated goods, or what is commonly referred to as intellectual property…
Thanks to Librarian Activist!
Stevan Harnad, the long time evangelist of open access to scholarly literature, has started a new blog,
Open Access Archivangelism
“Maximizing Research Impact by Maximizing Research Access” (http://openaccess.eprints.org/).
He says,
As of this date, I will begin branching my own substantive
American Scientist Open Access Forum postings
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/ archives/ American- Scientist- Open- Access- Forum.html
to the OAA blog as well. I may also blog selected AmSci comments by others
there too, but OAA is not meant to replace the AmSci Forum by any means, only
to mirror it.
hamletworks
“Hamlet Works is based on the materials of the New Variorum Hamlet Project. It contains sets of entries (not yet complete) detailing the textual and critical history of every line of the play. ”
An article in the CHE describes the project as
“every piece of scholarship and criticism about the play” linked “line by line, to the text in an online database.”
(Online Database Will Hold the Mirror Up to ‘Hamlet,’ Gathering Every Commentary on the Play
By JEFFREY R. YOUNG.
Chronicle of Higher Education, Tuesday, May 10, 2005.)
Open Government: a journal on Freedom of Information
Here’s a new open access journal to keep track of. The inaugural issue includes articles about the UK freedom of information act (which amazingly didn’t come into force until January, 2005!), and a conference report on the 3rd intl conference of information commissioners. One of the exciting things to come out of that conference was the “Declaration of Cancœn
Transparency and Accountability: A Commitment to Democracy” signed by a long list of NGOs. The PDF of the declaration is linked from another organization to track called Statewatch.
Congratulations on this new and exciting endeavor!
Scope:
¥ Freedom of Information legislation and information provision for citizens
¥ Comparative views of international freedom of information legislation
¥ Freedom of information legislation and the open government debate
¥ The impact of Freedom of Information on public administration
¥ Case studies from public authorities by FOI practioners
¥ Information Systems for managing records and FOI requests
¥ The relationship of Freedom of Information legislation and other access to information legislation
Yahoo now has a search that limits results to materials covered by a Creative Commons license instead of copyright.
Why is this search different?
This Yahoo! Search service finds content across the Web that has a Creative Commons license. While most stuff you find on the web has a full copyright, this search helps you find content published by authors that want you to share or reuse it, under certain conditions.
BBC - Radio 4 - Publish or Be Damned
Open access in the news!