On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Denver Gingerich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm helping organize an open content awareness event at my school (the > University of Waterloo) and I'd like to get some suggestions on types > of things that we can use to promote open content. We will have a > projector setup in our Student Life Centre and we're thinking of > handing out pamphlets and CDs with open content. Currently, the plan > is to show the "Get Creative" video at > http://support.creativecommons.org/videos/ every hour and fill the > rest of each hour with either open content music or videos. The event > will run for 3 hours and is taking place next Monday, October 29. > > The things that we'd particularly like input on are the following: > - Are there better videos than "Get Creative" to teach people about > Creative Commons licensing? > - What sorts of open content (music or videos) would be good to show > between viewing of the "Get Creative" (or other) video? > - Are there pamphlets explaining open content available online that we > can print out and give to students? > - What is a good set of songs to include on open content CDs? I've > browsed http://freemusic.freeculture.org/ and http://www.jamendo.com/, > but it's difficult to find a good selection of music that will appeal > to a wide range of people. > > Any suggestions at all would be appreciated. If you have any > questions about the event I've described, I'd be happy to answer them. > > Denver
One of the central points to get across is that we, authors and readers, need no longer negotiate with publishers of scholarly journals. This point is understood by physicists and mathematicians, but is not yet understood as widely in the faculties of biology and medicine. The old publishers of paper and ink journals have nothing we want, nothing we need. We need not talk to them. We may simply make our own journals, or, if we love the tradition of a particular journal published since before the Net, take over its management and distribution. Many mathematicians and physicists publish early, middle, late, and final, drafts of works on the arXiv: http://arxiv.org Here is the notice of the Annals of Mathematics, a Serious Journal, the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem was published in it, becoming an "overlay journal", quoted from http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/news/all 8 May 2001: The Annals of Mathematics is now an arXiv overlay journal We are pleased to announce that the Annals of Mathematics is now on-line and an arXiv overlay journal. We would like to thank the Annals editorial board, and especially Robert MacPherson, for helping make this possible. That the Annals is an overlay means that all articles in the Annals from November 1998 onward have been contributed or will be contributed to the mathematics arXiv. In addition the Annals web site has hyperlinks to the arXiv copies. You can also now search or browse Annals articles within the arXiv, for example by following this link. As a consequence of the overlay arrangement, the Annals shares the commitment of the arXiv itself to remain permanently and freely available on the Internet. With the addition of the Annals there are now four arXiv overlay journals, the other three being Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics and the sibling journals Geometry and Topology and Algebraic and Geometric Topology. This prestigious collection of journals illustrates a new phase of the mathematics arXiv. The mathematics arXiv is now not only a "preprint server", but also a permanent digital library that can support peer review as a second layer. We believe that scholarly communication in mathematics is at a crossroads. With the advent of the Internet, mathematicians can disseminate their work through proprietary subscription journals which are published electronically. Or mathematicians can distribute it through an ad hoc array of home pages and web sites. We believe that neither of these systems is adequate and that mathematicians should, in addition, contribute their papers to a free, universal archive extended by peer review. Two precendents speak in favor of this approach. One is the wide success of the arXiv in many areas of physics, as reported in the Science Section of the May 1 New York Times. The other is CTAN, the free universal archive of TeX software and TeX macros. All TeX users, even subscription journals, rely on CTAN directly or indirectly. Today's news about the Annals is only one step on a long road, but we hope that it can lead to discussions about the future. So please circulate this announcement among your colleagues, and feel free to add your own comments. -- Robert Bryant, Bill Casselman, Rob Kirby, Greg Kuperberg, Elliott Lieb, Peter Michor, David Morrison, Andrew Odlyzko, Richard Palais, Jim Stasheff, and Bill Thurston, on behalf of the math arXiv advisory committee References: New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/01/science/01ARCH.html?ex=1193284800&en=c561fbbc3dcc5be8&ei=5070 CTAN: http://www.ctan.org oo--JS. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
