Open as in... doors, arms, ended?

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"With a fanfare and much waving of pompoms, I [Martin Weller] can announce that the open access version of my book [The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Changing Academic Practice] is now online, via the good people at Bloomsbury Academic. It is available online in plain HTML format, broken down by chapters. I'm excited about this because now I can point people at it and pass it around freely. A couple of people have requested other formats, eg epub, pdf, etc. I could do these, but my feeling is that what's significant is the Creative Commons Non-Commercial licence. If anyone wants to take the HTML version and create an Egyptian hieroglyphics version delivered via 1988 version of HyperCard - well, they can...."

Link:

http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2011/09/open-as-in-doors-arms-ended.html

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Tags:

ru.no oa.new oa.licensing oa.cc oa.books oa.libre

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 12:29

Date published:

09/28/2011, 22:10