Fortnightly Mailing

David Weinberger reports on a talk by Peter Suber about the future of Open Access

Nice live report by David Weinberger from a talk at Harvard University on 26 February by Peter Suber on the future of Open Access. Useful, though it is US flavoured, for people wanting to get to grips with Open Access in its several variants: "Green Open Access (= open access through a repository) and Gold OA (= OA through a journal). There’s also Gratis OA (free of charge but may be licensing restrictions), and Libre OA (free of charge and free of licensing restrictions)".

Naom Cohen in the NY Times on a perverse effect of the Google Books class action settlement

There is an interesting and slightly tongue in cheek piece in the 3 March 2009 New York Times - Google’s Digitized Book Project Hinges on a Retro Kind of Search - about the lengths that Google is going to to reach authors of scanned books to tell them about the rights that flow to them from the recently settled class action.

Thanks to Dick Moore for pointing this out.

Alex Jones reviews Ofsted's "The importance of ICT: information and communication technology in primary and secondary schools"

Ofsted's rather damning report, published today, is "based on evidence from inspections of information and communication technology (ICT) between September 2005 and July 2008 in 177 maintained schools in England, as well as other visits to schools where good practice was identified". Alex's review. Download the report.