Friday, May 25, 2012

World Bank Live Event Report: Open Access Policy and Development

The World Bank hosted an event called What the World Bank’s Open Access Policy Means for Development.  Participants included Peter Suber from Harvard University, Michael Carroll from American University (Mike is on the Board of Directors at Creative Commons), and Cyril Muller and Adam Wagstaff from the World Bank. The discussion was timely given the Bank’s recently-announced Open Access Policy and Open Knowledge Repository.   See more...http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/32839 

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Georgia State University Decision on Fair Use

Read summary and recap here: http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/gsu_issuebrief_15may12.pdf

Open Access Spreads to Miami University

http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/05162012/open-access-spreads-miami-university