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ARC: Connections: Open Content Movement

Related Page: Copyright and Intellectual Property

An academic movement with a goal of open access to scientific results.

Leading Organizations and Resources

• http://sciencecommons.org/ - Licenses with a goal of free access and inquiry.
• http://creativecommons.org/ - Flexible copyright options for many types of work
• http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ - The Soros/Budapest Open Access Initiative
• http://www.open-research-society.org/ - The Open Research Society
• http://www.sakaiproject.org/ - The Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment
• http://www.arl.org/sparc/ - Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
• http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ - The Open Journal System of the Public Knowledge Project
• Berkeley Press - Has Advice to Universities Seeking to Create Institutional Repositories
• Guide to Open Licensing - Blurring the Distinction between Sharing and Owning

Blogs, Articles and Newsletters on Open Access

• http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html - Open Access News by Peter Suber
• http://kairosnews.org/taxonomy/term/61?from=45 - Kairsonews blog on Open Content
• http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.09/start.html?pg=3 - Wired on Peer Review
• Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog Item - On Revenue and Open Access Journals

A Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with minimal centralized editorial control.

• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page - Open content textbooks - Wikibooks
• http://www.editthis.info/marketing_ontology/Main_Page - Marketing Ontology Wiki
• http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page - The Psychology Wiki
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page - The original Wikepedia

Open Access is related to Open Source software and the Open Innovation trends

• http://www.opensource.org/ - Open Source Initiative site has copyright boilerplate.
• Open Innovation Bibliography - Found on the Open Innovation Internet Clearing House