Peer REview for Publication & Accreditation of Research Data in the Earth sciences (PREPARDE) is a UK JISC funded international project that brings together a wide range of experts in research, academic publishing and data management to produce data publication guidelines applicable across a range of research disciplines and data types.
CKAN is a powerful data management system that makes data accessible – by providing tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding and using data. CKAN is aimed at data publishers (national and regional governments, companies and organizations) wanting to make their data open and available.
This site aims to give the background to, and rationale for, our vision of building a low cost, sustainable, Open Access future for the humanities. The Open Library of Humanities aims to provide a platform for Open Access publishing that is: Reputable and respected through rigorous peer review, Sustainable, Digitally preserved and safely archived in perpetuity ...
SHERPA's new JULIET service breaks down the differing requirements from each of the Research Councils to try and simplify what the policy says has to be done, what authors should archive, when they should archive, and where they should archive their outputs. The list then categorises the different sets of advice in comparison to an ideal Open Access mandate. The JULIET list complements the well-known RoMEO list, which summarises publishers' permissions for archiving research articles.
The D-Net Software Kit is an Open Source service-oriented solution for the construction of customized Data Infrastructures. Data Infrastructures address the need increasingly manifested by research communities to operate over the integration of content collected from several information sources (such as institutional repositories endowed with OAI-PMH interfaces, or archives of research data).
The Budapest Open Access Initiative: an international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the internet. Recommendations for the next 10 years.
E-prints for Library and Information Science (E-LIS) is an international open access archive for e-prints related to Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related application disciplines. This service aims to support individuals who wish to publish or otherwise make their papers available worldwide.
The A2K (Access to Knowledge) movement takes concerns with copyright law and other regulations that affect knowledge and places them within an understandable social need and policy platform: access to knowledge goods.
a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualise human development. Making sense of the world by having fun with statistics! Gapminder promotes sustainable global development by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.
The European Parliament could entrench a policy of charging citizens for information they have already paid to collect, enforced by state copyright over geographic information.
Stevan Harnad. "My text is not like data or software, to be modified, built upon, and then redistributed (perhaps as your own). You may use its content, but you may not alter it and then distribute the altered version, online or on-paper. "
ScientificCommons.org aims to provide the most comprehensive and freely available access to scientific knowledge on the internet. Core functions and aims of the project fare to provide the identification of repositories, the indexing of full-text document
dedicated to improving the scholarly and public quality of research. brings together faculty members, librarians, and graduate students dedicated to exploring whether and how new technologies can be used to improve the professional and public value of sc
a registry of open knowledge packages and projects (and a few closed ones). CKAN is the place to search for open knowledge resources as well as register your own.
a novel browsing interface designed for freebase, an open database of the world’s information, including Wikipedia, MusicBrainz, and the SEC archives...
“insanely useful Web sites” for government transparency. They provide a broad range of information available to track government and legislative information, campaign contributions and the role of money in politics.
DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data.
a "ning" community designed strictly for the media, open government communities, journalists, non-profits, and others seeking transparency in our government.
a not-for-profit organization with the aim of promoting (and protecting) open knowledge -- any kind of content, information or data: genes to geodata, sonnets to statistics. strong emphasis on decentralized collaboration. primary aim is to help others develop open knowledge. Also develops specific projects (for example Open Shakespeare)
allows you to thread together 'factlets' into narratives which can be re-organized in a number of ways, at the click of a button. product of the open knowledge foundation
Sunlight Foundation. This bipartisan, collaborative initiative will study the Senate’s current information-sharing practices to recommend how to improve public access to the Senate’s work on the Web. This project is modeled off of Sunlight’s parallel initiative, the Open House Project.