Topic: Open learning, open access, and open source
Fair access: Strikes the right balance on education and copyright
Emerging forms of access to copyrighted works is undermining the value of Access Copyright, argues Professor Michael Geist.
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Access Copyright: Addressing the needs and concerns of both creators and users in a changing copyright landscape
Access Copyright has the infrastructure and expertise to best serve universities, says the organization’s Executive Director Roanie Levy.
READ MOREOpen Access and the Public Purse
Last year, we were introduced to a “Draft Tri-Agency Open Access Policy,” put forward by NSERC and SSHRC to harmonize their requirements […]
READ MOREOpen season on academics: My brush with predatory publishing
One morning I opened my email to find that I had become editor-in-chief of an academic journal. Well, ‘chief editor’ to be […]
READ MOREThe Massive Open Online Professor
The new open and social technologies may allow academics to have their cake and eat it, too. A professor can be a […]
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Intellectual property, Journals and publishing, Online education, Open learning, open access, and open source, Research and innovation, Teaching and learning, Technology
Open Access: Promises and Challenges of Scholarship in the Digital Age
The Internet has made Open Access publication – the free distribution of scholarly work – a powerful possibility for scholars, administrators and publishers alike. Leslie Chan takes an in-depth look at the potential benefits, and looming challenges, facing this new approach to knowledge dissemination.
READ MOREDigitizing and the meaning of knowledge
Back to Origen, the codex and the Hexapla A recent book by Anthony Grafton and Megan Williams provides an interesting, if somewhat […]
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