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Open Access Week 2018

International Open Access Week spans 22 - 28 of October this year. It's a great time to find out more about open access initiatives that you can both...

Briefly, about Copyright Law & CC Licences

Copyright gives the people that create various works, certain legal controls over those works. As the name suggests, it limits copying (thus various forms...

Timeline Leading to the Formation of the Creative Commons

Letter to Ministers Regarding the New NAFTA / USMCA & "Intellectual Property"

This morning, upon learning of the newly negotiated NAFTA or as it seems to be called now USMCA, I sent the following letter to ministers of the current...

Paywall Is A Compelling Documentary, Advocates OA

Last Friday night, I watched the new documentary, Paywall: The Business of Scholarship. If you're involved in...

Switch to a Mastodon Social Network

The Mastodon social network system is the most promising advance I've seen recently toward establishing a better, more compelling social networking system....

Digital Curation Issues Involving Open Government Data

Open government data has widely established social, economic, and governance benefits. A number of organizations promote and assist government agencies...

E-books: New Experiences and Problems with Access

The introduction of e-books (among other digital content) changed the interactions and responsibilities of publishers, authors, academics, librarians,...

Newsblur as an Intelligent Agent Used for CI

Newsblur (www.newsblur.com) is a Web-based RSS feed reading service. This is a review of how I found it useful while working on competitive intelligence...

Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom: Our Pragmatic Ignorance

For workaday pragmatic purposes, common understandings of data, information, knowledge, wisdom, and their relationships may be worthwhile. But for our...