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Free digital texts begin to challenge costly college textbooks in California
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August 18, 2008
Would-be reformers are trying to beat the high cost -- and, they say, the dumbing down -- of college materials by writing or promoting open-source, no-cost online texts. …
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CNI Podcast: The Public Knowledge Project's Brian Owen
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May 5, 2011
The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) has been a very successful open source project during the past 10 years. The most recent count of Open Journal Systems (OJS) installations exceeds 8,000…
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Free and Open Source Options for Creating Database-Driven Subject Guides
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March 28, 2008
This article reviews available cost-effective options libraries have for updating and maintaining pathfinders such as subject guides and course pages. The paper discusses many of the available op…
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Human Futures for Technology and Education
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June 12, 2007
Presentation at the Sixth Annual ECAR/HP Summer Symposium for Higher Education IT Executives, June 11-13, 2007, Boulder, Colorado. In January 2007, Michael Wesch released a video on the history o…
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CNI Podcast: Michael Seadle on National Hosting and Interoperability: The LuKII Project in Germany
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December 29, 2010
In this interview, Michael Seadle, Dean and Principle Investigator on the LuKII Project at Humboldt-Universität Berlin, talks about the policy and technical issues involved in this interoperabil…
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The Real At-Risk E-Content: University Web Resources
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October 12, 2006
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Annual Conference
OCLC has developed open-source software to efficiently manage the process of archiving Web documents, Web pages, and entire Web sites in support of an institution's work to record its history …
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Open Education 2006: Community, Culture, and Content
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January 1, 2006
Open Education 2006: Community, Culture, and Content was a multidisciplinary event designed to promote the discussion of the variety of research, development, and other activities necessary to move…
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Cultura: A Method and Open Source Tool for Teaching Language and Culture
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March 22, 2006
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2006
Several years ago, an MIT professor developed a novel method for explaining and teaching cultural nuances in her language classes. MIT's Academic Computing office has developed a Web-based app…
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What Is a Digital Library Anymore, Anyway?
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January 1, 2005
The authors explore how digital libraries have evolved over the years and what form they have now taken."This paper describes an information model for digital libraries that intentionally move…
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The DPubS Development Project: Building an Open Source Electronic Publishing System
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October 19, 2005
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2005 Annual Conference
The DPubS development project, a partnership between libraries at Cornell and Penn State, aims to provide libraries, university presses, and other independent publishers with an open-source online …

















