Lund University in Sweden has recently launched the Directory of Open Access Journals featuring hundreds of peer-reviewed, scholarly journals from scientific and cultural communities. Their principal aim is to secure the right of “users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles.” Along with the searchable directory,…
We’ve just flipped the switch on a discussion area for public participation as part of our new project development process (image). We’re using mailing lists to facilitate the discussion of new license options, our International Commons project, and metadata strategies. We kicked off the new model today with development of a sampling license, with discussion…
Web Developers and designers looking for that perfect color might want to check out Eric Meyer’s Color Blender, recently released under a Creative Commons license. You input two colors and specify how many midtones you’ll need, and it does the rest. Since it’s written entirely in javascript, you can download it and use it yourself.
The people at Project Gutenberg, long known for creating and hosting public domain works, are releasing a “Best Of” CD under a Creative Commons license.
John Sundman, author of the books “Acts of the Apostles” and “Cheap Complex Devices” has recently applied a Creative Commons license to his works. The full text of the books are available for download from his site.