Open Access Videos

On this podcast we re delighted to introduce another two irregulars, Jennifer Howard, a writer for the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Josh Greenberg, the director of digital strategy and scholarship at the New York Public Library. Jennifer and Josh give us terrific insights into the challenges that digitization and open access are posing to libraries and publishers, and speak of new models that are emerging out of the chaos, including coalitions of publishers and the Internet Archive s BookServer. Links mentioned on the podcast: Research Librarians Discuss How to Sell Scholars on Open Access, and More Columbia and Cornell Libraries Announce Radical Partnership Open Access to Research Is Inevitable, Libraries Are Told Running time: 44:25 Download the .mp3

Copenhagen, 12 June 2009. Michel Wesseling from ISS explains the importance for European development research to publish its outputs in Open Access, so that they can available to researchers from developing countries. He urges EADI Directors to endorse the Berlin Declaration on Open Access in October 2009.See more from the IMWG 2009 meeting.

from the "Politics and Transparency" panel. How can IT help us achieve greater transparency and meaningful interaction in local and federal government? Should government ever have the right to assert ownership over laws, cases, and opinions? Where does free culture end and private interests begin in the democratic process? How transparent is the current presidential campaign, and where will the next battles be fought? Hear from activists and digerati on the current state of politics and what they re doing to bring about a better democracy through transparency and technology. Josh Trauberer of GovTrack.us speaks at Free Culture 2008. Students for Free Culture Free Culture @ Berkeley

from the "Access to Knowledge and Medicine" panel Ethan Guillen of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines speaks at Free Culture 2008. Students for Free Culture Free Culture @ Berkeley

from the "Technology and the Future of Copyright" panel Derek Slater (Google) at Free Culture 2008. Students for Free Culture Free Culture @ Berkeley

from the "Access to Knowledge and Medicine" panel Amy Kapczynski (UC Berkeley) speaks at Free Culture 2008. Students for Free Culture Free Culture @ Berkeley

John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla Corporation, speaks at Free Culture 2008. Students for Free Culture Free Culture @ Berkeley

Panel with short introduction to the Open Access Journal "Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP)" by Ulrich Poeschl and to the traditional Journal "Sustainability Science" by Prof. Takeuchi.Panel moderated by Marcus Dapp.

Video featuring MIT's Hal Abelson, Science Commons' John Wilbanks and Anna Gold of MIT Libraries. The talk, "Open Science and Scientific Publishing" took place in MIT's Stata Center on November, 13, 2007. The event was co-sponsored by Science Commons, MIT Libraries and the Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). This video is available to the public under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. For information about what uses this license permits, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Jason Devitt, CEO of Skydeck, testifies at the Congressional Hearing on Wireless Innovation and Consumer Protection on July 11, 2007.

Jason Devitt, CEO of Skydeck, testifies at the Congressional Hearing on Wireless Innovation and Consumer Protection on July 11, 2007.