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Searcher
March 2006
Paula Berinstein |
Wikipedia and Britannica: The Kid's All Right (And So's the Old Man) Can the public concoct and maintain a free, authoritative encyclopedia that's unbiased, complete, and reliable?   |
Wired
May 22, 2009
Kevin Kelly |
The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online The frantic global rush to connect everyone to everyone, all the time, is quietly giving rise to a revised version of socialism. |
Searcher
December 2002
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Just Can't Hardly Give It Away: Generosity Versus Copyright Many do not want to give up their copyright and the financial return on their creative work, but a growing number of creators do want to make their creations freely available. |
Wired
March 2005
Daniel H. Pink |
The Book Stops Here Jimmy Wales wanted to build a free encyclopedia on the Internet. So he raised an army of amateurs and created Wikipedia. |
Wired
November 2003
Gary Rivlin |
Leader of the Free World How Linus Torvalds became benevolent dictator of Planet Linux, the biggest collaborative project in history. |
Reason
June 2007
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Wikipedia and Beyond Wikipedia was born as an experiment in aggregating information. But the reason it works isn't that the world was clamoring for a new kind of encyclopedia. It took off because of the robust, self-policing community it created. Despite its critics, it is transforming our everyday lives. |
Searcher
January 2002
Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Searcher
March 2005
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories. |
BusinessWeek
January 6, 2011
Drake Bennett |
Assessing Wikipedia, Wiki-Style, on Its 10th Anniversary How the online "temple of the mind" became the go-to site for looking stuff up: A drama told in the open-source style of Wikipedia. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 20, 2006
Martha Lagace |
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation Practices in the open source software community offer a model for encouraging large-scale scientific problem solving. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2011
Castellucci & Giglia |
OAI7 - CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication The spirit of the meeting is sharing best practices, experiences and ideas, as well as connecting people and creating new possibilities for the achievement of "openness" within national and international institutions. |
Wired
June 2006
Jamie Shreeve |
Free Radical Harold Varmus won a Nobel Prize for changing how we think about cancer. Then he overhauled the NIH. Now he's battling publishers to make all scientific research free and universally available. |
Bio-IT World
February 10, 2003
Kevin Davies |
Library Science Can the obscene costs of subscriptions to specialty journals be justified? |
Information Today
July 7, 2003
Miriam. A. Drake |
Free Public Access to Science -- Will It Happen? If Congressman Martin Sabo of Minnesota has his way, the results of federally funded research in science and medicine will be available freely to all. |
Information Today
August 31, 2009
Barbara Quint |
PLoS Currents Uses Google Knol Collections Feature for Swine Flu Reports The Public Library of Science has launched a new experimental service called PLoS Currents, which is designed to support quick turnaround among scientists on hot research topics. |
BusinessWeek
January 31, 2005
Steve Hamm |
Linux Inc. Linus Torvalds once led a ragtag band of software geeks. Not anymore. Here's an inside look at how the unusual Linux business model increasingly threatens Microsoft. |
Linux Journal
August 1, 2002 |
Linux Timeline 100 of the most significant events in Linux history. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 23, 2007
Sean Silverthorne |
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't) Harvard Business School professors conduct a case study on how online cultures are made and maintained, the power of self-policing organizations, the question of whether the service is drifting from its core principles, and whether a Wikipedia-like concept can work in a business setting. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 26, 2007
Sean Silverthorne |
Best Practices of Global Innovators Innovation is increasingly driven through collaborative teams due to product complexity, availability of a low-cost but highly skilled labor pool, and advances in development tools. |
Information Today
October 30, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Citizendium: A Kinder, Truer Wikipedia? Over the last year, Wikipedia online encyclopedia has faced an international furor over its reliability and accuracy. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2011
Vera Munch |
Open Access: Shaking the Basics of Academic Publishing Although open access is not a new concept, the all-embracing structural upheaval caused by digital technology is still turning academic publishing upside down. |
Fast Company
March 15, 2007
Alan Deutschman |
Why Is This Man Smiling? Jimbo Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, slayer of Britannica, has a new giant in his sights: Google. And he thinks he has got a better way to search. Is he delusional -- or inspired? |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 9, 2008
Sean Silverthorne |
Monetizing IP: The Executive's Challenge In this Q&A, Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner discusses current trends in Intellectual property, including the rise of patent pools. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Elizabeth Svoboda |
One-Click Content, No Guarantees Should you trust Wikipedia, the world's first user-generated encyclopedia? |
Wired
June 2004 |
The Free & The Unfree The notion that ideas can be protected, like land or gold, from bandits predates Gutenberg's printing press. But only in the digital age has the concept of intellectual property set off an international free-for-all. |
Information Today
August 2004 |
NewsBytes LexisNexis, Biz360 Form Alliance... Marketresearch.com Opens London Office... Ohio Academic Libraries Support PloS... ABC-CLIO, Ingenta Announce Linking Partnership... IEEE Adds New Members to Advisory Council... etc. |
D-Lib
November 2005 |
In Brief Summary of the seventh Russian Conference on Digital Libraries... Will users use library portals?... Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) calls for national leadership grant applications... Oxford Open first quarter results released... etc. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2008
Pressley & McCallum |
Putting the Library in Wikipedia Few online resources provoke as much controversy in the library community as Wikipedia. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2008
William Badke |
What to Do With Wikipedia Often banned by professors, panned by traditional reference book publishers, and embraced by just about everyone else, Wikipedia marches on like a great beast, growing larger and more commanding every day. |
Information Today
March 3, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
University Libraries Offer an Alternative to Traditional Publishing As digital tools get easier to use, many institutions are starting their own publishing programs in an effort to offer more varied services to their communities. |
Bio-IT World
Jul/Aug 2006
Kevin Davies |
Science Publishing and the Web Several technologies are poised to radically change the ability of scientists to share data and develop ideas both within and between organizations: Nature Network Boston... PLoS ONE... |
Information Today
August 27, 2007
Paula J. Hane |
PLoS and Partners Offer Video Communications With SciVee SciVee lets scientists communicate their works as multimedia presentations incorporated with the content of their published articles. |
Chemistry World
April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2005
Ben Klemens |
New Legal Code Copyrights should replace software patents. |
InternetNews
January 11, 2005
Jim Wagner |
IBM Pledges Patents to Open Source IBM said Tuesday it is pledging 500 software patents to developers of open source software so they can develop without fear. The patents are available to those who abide by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and use one of 50 OSI-certified licenses. |
PC World
February 21, 2007
Scott Spanbauer |
Mine the Net for the Latest Research and Knowledge Hone your search skills to uncover troves of serious, primary-source material on the Web. |
Information Today
January 2004
Robin Peek |
Open Access Expands Its Reach Trying to keep up with all the recent twists and turns in the open-access movement would make you a busy bee. And just in case you aren't certain about what open access means, BioMed Central would like to help you out. |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Karen Valby |
Wikipedia's Librarian to the World Wikipedia director Sue Gardner has transformed the site's broken business into a growing hub with global ambitions. Can a fast-talking iconoclast out-think silicon valley's gurus? |
The Motley Fool
April 26, 2005
Dave Mock |
The Lowdown on Patent Shakedowns The business of extorting license fees for patents can be very lucrative -- and damaging. It is important for investors to understand how the companies they own utilize and protect their inventions -- and what approach management has taken to deal with intellectual property disputes. |
Information Today
December 30, 2002 |
NewsBreaks Weekly News Digest Yahoo! to Acquire Inktomi... Nstein and Gale Announce Partnership... AIP Offers Free Bibliographic Search Service... Public Library of Science Announces New Journals |
Pharmaceutical Executive
April 10, 2014
Peter Houston |
Fixing Wikipedia Will Pharma join a growing effort to make the world's leading online health information resource more relevant to providers and safer for patients? |
D-Lib
January 2003 |
In Brief Digital Library Federation Electronic Resource Management Initiative... Preserving the Chinese Internet: The DACHS Project... Introducing the Information Environment Service Registry... CRL Political Communications Archiving Investigation... etc. |
The Motley Fool
January 16, 2007
Mac Greer |
Finding Gold Online An interview with Don Tapscott, the author of 10 books, including the recently published Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything on how the Web is moving beyond social networking. |
Salon.com
April 24, 2001
Andrew Leonard |
A boy and his computer Linus Torvalds' autobiography reveals a geek's geek who is changing the world, just for the heck of it... |
Information Today
August 2002
Elisabeth Winter |
E-Libraries Comes into Its Own Pamela Cibbarelli served as E-Libraries conference chair, and as in past years her expertise brought diversity and timeliness to the slate of presentations. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 19, 2015
Michael Blanding |
Which Has More Bias? Wikipedia or the Encyclopedia Britannica By identifying politically biased language in Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia, Feng Zhu hopes to learn whether professional editors or open-sourced experts provide the most objective entries. |
Macworld
October 31, 2005
Teague & Teague |
Encyclopedia Software Two of the most popular physical encyclopedias, World Book and Encyclopedia Britannica, have recently updated their virtual equivalents. Plus, the free Wikipedia Dashboard widget now makes it even easier to look up information. |
Information Today
March 2003
Dick Kaser |
The Future of Journals Elsevier executive Pieter Bolman talks about the future of scholarly publishing and the competition emerging from alternative publication models like the Public Library of Science |
Entrepreneur
June 2007 |
In the Know Find out all you can about patents, trademarks and copyrights now - your business will thank you later. |
Wired
September 25, 2007
Thomas Goetz |
It's Time to Free the Dark Data of Failed Scientific Experiments What do scientists do when their experiments don't yield positive results? They usually tuck it away in a drawer. However, new efforts are being made to make the data public so others can learn from the negative. |
