Open Source Software (OSS)

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Open Source Software (OSS)

The Evolving LMS Market, Part I and Part II

December 21, 2010

In this post,the author discusses what the data are telling us so far about the recent shifts in the market, describe how colleges and universities come to decide that they need to go to market f…

Open Courseware in the Liberal Arts

March 23, 2010

Saint Michael's College thinks persuading its faculty to use free courseware from peer institutions could improve its liberal arts curriculum. …

Open Source, Why or Why Not?

February 11, 2010

Unicon conducted a market research session at the EDUCAUSE Annual conference on Nov. 4, 2009, in which participants were invited to discuss why their institution has or has not adopted open sourc…

Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability and Reusability: Preliminary report from an NSF-funded workshop held 27 & 28 March 2009

March 4, 2010

The National Science Foundation’s strategy for 21st century innovation depends on rapid creation ofsoftware to enable scientific discovery. The NSF workshop report “Planning for Cyberinfrastr…

A Survey of the Scholarly Journals Using Open Journal Systems

March 4, 2010

The authors, Brian D. Edgar and John Willinsky, implemented a survey of 998 scholarly journals that use Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open source journal software platform, captures the characte…

In Potential Blow to Open-Source Software, Mellon Foundation Closes Grant Program

January 6, 2010

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is eliminating a grant program that financed a series of high-profile university software projects and merging it into another program. …

Open Source Learning Management Systems

December 15, 2009

The evolving technologies committee is charged with identifying and monitoring evolving technologies and their impact on higher education institutions. This submission is on Open Source Learning …

The Next Open Source Movement

July 6, 2009

A university and a community college are first institutions to undertake large-scale installations of administrative software created by consortium and open to all. Is industry shake-up imminent?…

LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)

May 21, 2009

LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), based at Stanford University Libraries, is an international community initiative that provides libraries with digital preservation tools and support so th…

Open Education: A New Paradigm

January 21, 2009

Throughout the world, the demand for educated professionals is growing faster than populations of people with the required skills, open education will help fill that gap. …