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From the Wall Street Journal‘s Technology Blog, digits: YouTube Edu Launches From the article: YouTube Edu lets viewers sort clips by school or number of views, and the schools offer content ranging from complete courses to campus events to information for prospective students. I love, love, love the idea of YouTube Edu! What a wonderful [...]
GREAT find by Libraryman – read the post on his blog at Music You Want. Now. Free. (and not via the Library) + twitter video fun Grooveshark. Love music? Try it out. I was listening to my Pandora music stations today at work and commented to myself how much I love Pandora. But this… this [...]
I’m having a laugh (and an educational experience at the same time) by reading through the Library Society of the World‘s 2009 Shovers & Makers list. It’s a play off of the Library Journal‘s annual Movers & Shakers list that profiles the lucky few designated with the prestigious honor of “shaping the future of libraries.” [...]
Via Peter Suber & Gavin Baker‘s Open Access News: MIT adopts a university-wide OA mandate Something must be in the water! Just after yesterday’s announcement that Oregon State University Librarians adopted an open access mandate, MIT has done the same thing — university-wide! Barbara Fister from the ACRL blog writes some nice thoughts about this [...]
Go Beavs! Oregon State University Librarians have adopted an open access mandate, requiring deposit of scholarly work by the University’s faculty librarians into ScholarsArchive@OSU. From the mandate: “The faculty members of the OSU Libraries support open access to our scholarship and knowledge. Consequently, we grant to the OSU Libraries permission to make our scholarly work [...]
