Sharing images, JISC Information Environment Team, November 9, 2008.
How can we share images more effectively for use in teaching and learning? The [Community-Led Image Collections] report looked at this question a couple of years ago and, more recently JISC and the Higher Education Academy co-funded some case studies building on that report. ... In short, we need to work both with the gravitational centres on the web (eg Flickr) and institutional facilities, and ask how these best support individuals and academic communities; we need to find ways of alleviating copyright worries without ignoring the issue; we need to come up with solutions that will work for small-scale community collections with little technical support; and we need to do all this bearing in mind that open sharing of images may not always have a business case. ... [T]he fuller summary and full reports show how these questions are worked through in visual arts, engineering, archaeology and geosciences.
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 11/10/2008 05:49:00 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.
