Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Liberal Arts Libraries Support Open Access Publishing. Fifty-one liberal arts college libraries have become institutional members of Public Library of Science (PLoS), a non-profit organization dedicated to making scientific and medical literature a public resource. The libraries are members of the Oberlin Group, an informal community of liberal arts colleges and libraries dedicated to promoting science education (for more on the Oberlin Group, see this brief history by Ray English and Will Bridegam). Joining PLoS promotes the growth of open access publishing by allowing authors from member institutions to publish in PLoS journals at reduced or no cost. Publication fees are a significant barrier to open access publishing of science, technical, and medical journals, and PLoS has sought to lower this barrier to entry. For more on the announcement see the press release forwarded by Peter Suber, available at the extended link below: [commons-blog] 4:32:42 AM  comment []  Trackback []     The Tofte Project. The Tofte Project is an award-winning green retrofit of an old cabin on Lake Superior. That's moderately worldchanging, but the project's website is fabulous (though... [WorldChanging: Another World Is Here] 4:32:08 AM  comment []  Trackback []     Virtually Green. Virtually Green offers online visual tours of key green buildings around the world. Limited selection now, but they promise more.... [WorldChanging: Another World Is Here] 4:31:50 AM  comment []  Trackback []     Finally, weblogs, RSS, and P2P have been combined.  This has been a dream of mine since I turned up in the Weblog world in early 2001 (and right in line with the vision in a Forrester report I wrote 1996 entitled:  Personal Broadcast Networks).  Thanks Andrew!  This is excellent. [John Robb's Weblog] 4:21:13 AM  comment []  Trackback []

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