25 Tools: A Free Toolset for Learning This is a site with useful links. Slideshare, for example, is a popular way to create presentations and make them available to specific users or to the general public. We may use this for our continuing education and personal development program. Bego
Happy 犀利士 Earth Day! Click on the title for the story. ELMO
Chemists Without Border’s Jean-Claude Bradley recently did a presentation for my class at UBC on Open Notebook Science that has been called a must-read for science librarians. Chemists are sharing information openly, from every step of an experiment to sharing molecules on Chemspider. This can advance our knowledge much more rapidly, for example in Malaria …
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Researchers are celebrating OA Week, in honour of the US National Institutes of Health new policy requiring open access to the results of NIH-funded research, which took effect today! For details on how to join in the festivities – and support the NIH in this important move which certainly takes us beyond borders – see …
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The European Universities Association (EUA), at their spring meeting in Barcelona, unanimously endorsed a recommendation to develop and support open access at every university in Europe. Details of the recommendation have been posted in the EUA Newsletter. Details of the policy and my comments can be found on The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. Thanks …
CA Air Resources Board caves to auto industry pressure yet again (click on the post title for the link). If I remember correctly, the National Research Council said within the last 2 years that it was achievable to raise fuel economy standards by 5-7 MPG without a significant effect on the cost of a vehicle. …
The 2-minute Author’s Rights Video by the Association of Research Libraries explains clearly and succinctly what scholars can do to make sure they retain the rights to use and share our work in the ways we would like to – including making them open access and so freely available to colleagues in the developing world.
Ever been to Hetch Hetchy? “Earlier this month, the American Waterworks Association Research Foundation tested 20 of the nation’s water systems for compounds typically used in medicines, household cleaners and cosmetics and found San Francisco’s water almost alone in being free of contaminants. And blind taste tests have also shown that the city’s water tastes …
This is just a sad story all around. I feel for the Deputy and the cyclists: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/15/BAFJVKPDS.DTL&tsp=1 We need to share the road, meaning: give as much room to cyclists as you can without compromising your safety with oncoming traffic. If it looks like you can’t pass safely, then please WAIT! until it is clear …
Perhaps the real problem with producing ethanol from grains- it makes food too expensive for poor people: Sheeran (UN) noted that in some countries food was available, but cost too much for the poor to buy it, or, as she put it “markets full of food with scores of people simply unable to afford it. …