On Being Open The Real Meaning of Open Access, Open Content, and Open Source
Abstract
This paper describes notions of openness: open source, open courseware, open access publishing, and other efforts to make digital information more accessible. It notes the growing global interest and support for open projects by individuals, governments, foundations, and corporations. The paper closes with a proposal for an international center dedicated to educating individuals about open source and open access projects.
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- Figure 1: Miss Thurday Next from Jasper Fforde’s series of Thursday Next novels.
- Figure 2: The onion, sliced.
- Figure 3: The onion, as a model for openness.
- Figure 4: Plot of interactions for SquirrelMail.
- Figure 5: A view of a complex network called the World Wide Web.
- Figure 6: Opening page of First Monday, circa January 2005.
- Figure 7: Open page of MITOpenCourseWare.
- Figure 8: Thaddeus Hajek (1525–1600).
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