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Sub-Categories in Open Content

Encyclopedias (9)
Idea Banks (8)

Licenses (8)
Open Directory Project@ (1131)

Web Sites in Category Open Content

Classical MBA - Free lecture notes, articles, and resources pertaining to leveraging Open Source technologies and the classics in business.

Drafting the Gift Domain - An introduction to IP law as it relates to Open Content (PDF).

First Monday - Open Content and Value Creation - Article by Magnus Cedergren discusses models involving the driving forces in a theoretical open content value chain.

Free Curriculum Project - An effort to create a complete K-12 curriculum and set of course materials that are "Free" in the GNU sense.

Information Research Weblog - A forum to exchange information on publications and websites of potential interest to the readers of the journal, Information Research, an open access, refereed, electronic journal covering the information field generally.

Linart - The purpose of the Linart project is twofold. First, to advance the use of Linux-based systems and other free, open source software for artists; and second, to define, encourage, and promote free art and a community of those who make it.

O'Reilly Open Books Project - Read entire books online which were published under various forms of "open" copyright.

OpenContent - Reason for being: "facilitate the prolific creation of freely available, high-quality, well-maintained Content." Content = everything but software.

Openlaw - The Berkman Center's open law public forum, an experiment in public, online drafting of legal argument; bringing the concepts of open source to legal argument. Current cases: Open DVD (defending DeCSS and fighting the Digital Millennium Copyright Act); Eldred v. Reno (challenging the copyright term extension); Open Access (demanding open access to cable broadband); the Microsoft Remedy (analyzing the antitrust case).

OpenText Project - Mission is to lead the open source content movement in higher education, modeling textbook content after the open source software movement.

OSCOMAK: Open Source Community On Manufacturing Knowledge - Goal: create a distributed global repository of production knowledge of past, present and future processes, materials, products.

Rice University's Connexions - Article on the first steps of an experimental, open-source/open content project that will "give a learner... free access to educational materials that can be readily manipulated to suit her individual learning style".

World66 - Free travel guide based on contributed open content.

Related Categories:

Reference > Open Access Resources
Society > Organizations > Open Access
Society > Issues > Intellectual Property

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