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The Instructional Architect A National Science Digital Library service that was used in creating this presentation

The Berlin Declaration on Open Access A major international statement and the launch of a series of annual international conferences on open access to knowledge in the sciences and humanities


Third Berlin Conference recommendation Prodding institutions to make their scholarly work open access

Open access to literature and to medicines Access to scientific knowledge and access to medical treatments are closely intertwined.

The most recent Berlin Conference A truly worldwide community is involved in open-access advocacy.

Open Access in Developing Countries Open access is seen as extremely important in countries that are less privileged than those where most of us grew up.

European Cultural Heritage Online Here is evidence of the multi-disciplinary nature of open-access issues.

Creative Commons Copyright that protects the rights of authors but does not erect barriers to access

Peer Review - discussion in Nature The process of reviewing scholarly work for publication may also become more open, allowing an active role for a much wider community of scholars.

The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Resources for teaching and learning that have been peer-reviewed are being organized into searchable and browsable archives that are mostly open-access.

Neuroscience Animations at Howard Hughes Medical Institute An example of a resource in the NSDL

D-Lib Magazine Articles on open-access digital libraries in all disciplines

Open Access to Folk Music and Art A project to create an open-access archive of folk music documents

LibriVox Open-access audiobooks

Connexions at Rice University Open-access modules for courses and textbooks

Open Text Book A registry of open-access textbooks

The Open Knowledge Foundation A more comprehensive view of open access to knowledge

GNU/Linux Openness in software - a free computer operating system, a major competitor of Windows and Mac OS X

The Open Source Initiative The vision of software that is free and that users are free to use and modify as they wish

Open Office.org An open-source suite of office software, a viable competitor for Microsoft Office

Moodle An open-source course management software package designed to facilitate innovative pedagogy and adopted by a worldwide user community

Bethel's Moodle site Continue the discussion here at "Digital Media Discussion and Resources."

The R Project for Statistical Computing Free software for graphs and statistics

EPrints.org - Creating Digital Repositories Open-source software for institutional open-access archives of documents

One Laptop per Child An international project to make computers available to children - surely impossible without open-source software