IEEE is partnering with open-access educational repository Connexions on a major initiative to develop a critical mass of signal processing educational modules and courses that will be available for free access by anyone, anywhere, at any time. This is one of the latest education and outreach effort by the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), as announced by the SPS President Alfred O. Hero in the November 2007 issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine [PS: and blogged on OAN at the time].
The materials will pass through a careful IEEE-SPS peer review that will earn them the imprimatur of the IEEE brand for quality and eventually will be available not just in English but also in a number of languages, including Spanish and Chinese.
The project will begin accepting submissions of content for conversion and reviewing in January 2008. If you would like to get started early contributing your own content, please visit the Connexions Author’s Guide. For more information, read more from this SPM article and visit the project website.
Update (1/31/08). Also see the home page for this project. (Thanks to Mel DeSart.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/20/2007 02:14:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
