Enlightenment 2.0 or it looks like information wants to be free

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Here you got:
"Welcome to MIT OpenCourseWare a free, open, publication of MIT Course Materials. We invite you to view all the courses available at this time."

Also there is the movement to create an open public library of scientific papers,
who got a model archive called "PubMed Central" and an ongoing petition for scientists approving the idea at http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org.

I think these initiatives are great gifts to humanity and I hope the concept will be copied elsewhere (suggestions?).

Anyone have other legal examples of this "open source" trend?

Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 4 April 2003 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

What, you mean this thread isn't actually about Enlightenment?

caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 4 April 2003 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Is this just a 'good free archives on the web' thread?

How about:

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834

("A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.")

N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 4 April 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

How long do you suppose they worried about using the phrase "non-elite"?

Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 4 April 2003 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Or 6500 hours of lo-res Pathe newreel at

http://www.britishpathe.com/index.cfm


(you have to go through the same process as if you were ordering one of the chargeable hires versions, which is a bit cumbersome, but it's a great resource. I imagine Gareth and Robin would love it)

N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 4 April 2003 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

That Pathé site looks great:

BY 6 GOALS TO NIL!
06/03/1933 Black & White

Everton beat Luton Town to go through to the next round of the FA Cup.

Was Michael Jones's dad at that one?

Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 4 April 2003 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

(as well as being lo-res, you also have to put up with 'PATHE NEWSREEL - PREVIEW ONLY' being superimposed over the middle of the screen, but hey.

N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 4 April 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Back in academia, you can get MEDLINE access for free these days

N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 4 April 2003 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Is this just a 'good free archives on the web' thread?
no and yes.
free university courses would fit under this but at the same time it is quite a paradigm shift isn'it? Usually higher education is reserved for people of a certain age who can afford it and are ready to relocate so opening it up to everyone will surely increase the richness of our culture. Anyway I was very impressed with MIT for having the guts to go ahead with this idea.

This thread is also about the social impact of the "free stuff", like the public library for scientific papers will have for effect that scientists won't have to reivent the wheel over and over in solo so we'll cure diseases much faster. If only private pharmaceutical compagnies would join in...

Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 4 April 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

There's Citeseer too.

Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 4 April 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Project Gutenberg

Ed (dali), Friday, 4 April 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

http://hri.shef.ac.uk/db/bailey/gtrial.jsp?id=t17280501-13&orig=c

Wow.

Andrew (enneff), Friday, 4 April 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...
online science and math textbooks

Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Free Internet Access to Traditional Journals

Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 24 April 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks! Now I need to buy a laser printer.

Millar (Millar), Thursday, 24 April 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

ADUni.org: Free Computer Science Resources

Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

nupedia : "We are building the world's largest international, peer-reviewed encyclopedia."

Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

wikipedia: another free encyclopedia.

Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

These are very nice, Sébastien.

Anyone have other legal examples of this "open source" trend?

It's this thing!

(thank you Phil and MIT)

felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

grrrr . . . anyway, our source was adapted from http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/

felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

(although I think Graham rewrote a fairly big slab of it)

electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, it's vastly, vastly improved now.

felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I believe that Graham said he didn't use any of the old code, in the end. Maybe he based some code on it, though, I don't know.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

it's that thing

felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...
textz.com
got lot of good info.
here's some good stuff that rapidly caught my eye:
Vernor Vinge True Names
Theodor W. Adorno On Popular Music, Culture Industry Reconsidered
Jean Baudrillard Radical Thought
Guy Debord Society of the Spectacle
Gilles Deleuze Anti-Oedipe et Mille plateaux , rhizome etc
Umberto Eco Foucalt's Pendulum
Michael Hardt / Antonio Negri Empire
Friedrich Nietzsche On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
lot of txt from Internationale Situationniste
Raoul Vaneigem The Book Of Pleasures etc
Slavoj Zizek Welcome To The Desert Of The Real
Henri Bergson Laughter
Pierre Bourdieu La télévision peut-elle critiquer la télévision ?
etc etc (!)

Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...
Wow - the Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1847-1902 is online, fully keyword searchable and in fascimile.

N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 5 June 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin was mentionned on the who are the champions of gastrosophy? thread. Yesterday I found his
Physiologie du goût, ou Méditations de gastronomie transcendante
! Joy!

It is at Gallica, bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France. The place have a lot of classics: Molière, Balzac, Corneille, Racine, etc, lot of more or less obscure stuff from the great french tradition of libertine atheists, hedonists and materialists: Condillac, Cabanis, daf de sade, Laclos, François Bernier, Mirabeau,
Alembert, Condorcet,Thomas, Crébillon, Diderot, Naudé, Rétif de La Bretonne, etc!
(too bad I couldn't locate txt by François Luillier,
Guy de La Brosse, La Mothe Le Vayer, Jacques Vallée des Barreaux,
Gassendi)

Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...
"Qu'est-ce que l'Encyclopédie Sonore ?

C'est un service éducatif en ligne proposé par plusieurs universités françaises et étrangères. Il s'agit d'une banque de données documentaires et d'un système de diffusion de conférences universitaires."
Ça m'a l'air assez bien c'truc.

Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

This guy scanned all of the notes he took in every class at MIT

Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=news_bbc

"The BBC Creative Archive, first announced by former BBC Director-General, Greg Dyke at the Edinburgh Television Festival in August 2003, launches in autumn 2004 and will allow people to download clips of BBC factual programmes from bbc.co.uk for non-commercial use, keep them on their PCs, manipulate and share them, so making the BBC's archives more accessible to licence fee payers.

Access to the BBC Creative Archive will be based on the Creative Commons model already working in the United States (www.creativecommons.org) which proposes a middle way to rights management, rather than the extremes of the pure public domain or the reservation of all rights."

this is most excellent news.

Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 26 July 2004 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 13 September 2004 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Some psychology journals are now going online, eg Journal of psychology:

http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp?CRID=jp_journal_of_psychology&OFFID=se1jp&KEY=journal_of_psychology

A small journal these days, albeit with an illustrious past, but it's a start.

the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 13 September 2004 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...
good content licenced "creative commons" at http://www.arteradio.com

ps @ people interested in good web design, their navigation is worth the détour.


Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...
Les classiques des sciences sociales

Creative Commons Search

Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 3 April 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)


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