Various credential based approaches have been proposed for realizing access control on shared data sources. These approaches use various types of credentials like identity certificates, attribute c...
Paper written for a first-year graduate-level course in Information and Society, at the School of Information Studies at McGill University. On issues concerning copyright and open access, as they ...
This briefing is the sixth in
a series of short publications
for non-specialists and journalists on issues relating
to the information society.
All human development is based on the acquisiti...
A postscript to "The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education"
by Curtis J. Bonk
Professor Indiana University, USA
Source: http://worldisopen.com/
This paper tackles the issues of overlay publications (journals, but also edited
monographs and books in general). Its two parts are aimed at providing theoretical
understanding of what an overla...
FONTES is an E-Publishing platform for the open access publication of electronic Full Texts of Sources and Documents in the History of Art as well as a platform for publishing studies, bibliographi...
You hold in your hand a copy of the Asia and the Commons case studies booklet. It represents an effort to uncover exemplary individuals and organisations engaged in the commons in the Asia-Pacific ...
The catalog promotes the open access editions published by Polimetrica Publisher. The administrator explains that he enjoys working with people to develop plans to achieve significant changes in t...
Scientists at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), based in the Philippines, generate a huge volume of research results emanating from multi-donor-funded projects on rice and rice-rela...
This is a paper compilation of models and experiences in open access of organizations similar to IRRI’s science publishing heavily drawn from European experiences. The objective of this paper is t...
Access to and sharing of data is essential for biodiversity conservation. However, workers from
developing nations that harbor rich biodiversity often do not have access to biodiversity informatio...
Translated from an article written in Japanese; Materials Integration, 21 [12] 75-76 (2008). A research paper that I presented in English at a material informatics workshop caught a Japanese lingu...
Abstract
Journals being offered for open access have been on the increase for over a decade, growing to around 1,200 journals to date. Authors wishing to be published are charged a publication fe...