Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Flash webGeology Resources These excellent flash resources can be used as instructional supplements in the teaching of Geology. They are made available from Norway's University of Tromso. Take a look at these resources even if you are not teaching Geology or Earth Sciences; they are interesting to view and illustrate what can be accomplished with flash tools. Resource listings are in English, Norwegian, and Russian. ______JH 3:14:44 PM    COMMENT []

Open Access Books by Cal Tech Authors Peter Suber provides a link to the new OA book resource at Cal Tech. I agree with Peter that it would be highly desirable for other institutions to establish similar sites. There are some OA textbooks nested within MIT's OpenCourseWare Project and at other OCW sites but they are hard to find. The Cal Tech site is searchable and browseable. The books are available in both pdf and html formats. _____JH _________ OA books by Caltech authors. The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has launched an OA repository of OA books by Caltech authors. (Thanks to Michael Knee.) So far the repository contains 12 books originally published between 1959 and 2005. PS: Kudos to Caltech. I don't know of any other university doing this. By noemail@noemail.org (Peter Suber). [Open Access News] 3:09:06 PM    COMMENT []