Episode 78 – Death Knell for the Paywall

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"The clock strikes noon, and that sound might just signal the end of the bright morning for closed systems in higher education. On this week’s podcast, we discuss Coursekit, a free (for now) learning management system built by dropouts from the University of Pennsylvania; Commons-in-a-Box, a free (funded by the Sloan Foundation) academic social networking system of blogs and wikis that will be built by non-dropouts from the CUNY Academic Commons; and the Berlin 9 Open Access Conference, which seems to have convinced not only several universities but also the White House that peer-reviewed scholarly publications should be, what else, free. Our honored guest is journalist Audrey Watters of Hack Education...."

Link:

http://digitalcampus.tv/2011/12/02/episode-78-death-knell-for-the-paywall/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » Connotea Imports

Tags:

ru.no oa.new oa.oer oa.audio oa.blogging oa.networking oa.wikis

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 12:09

Date published:

12/03/2011, 14:11