A quick observation -- MIT's OCW materials use the NC restriction and therefore do not qualify as free content under the free cultural works definition. The access may be open -- but they are certainly not free materials :-)
Visit the CC site to see which licenses are approved as free cultural works. Fortunately WE and the Wikimedia foundation projects have been smart enough to use free content licenses! Cheers Wayne On Mar 30, 5:51 am, James Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MIT, Elsevier Offer Free Content From More Than 2,000 > Journalshttp://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/about/media/elsevier_announce/elsevier_... > > CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Mar. 7, 2008 - In a move to encourage open education, > MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Elsevier have agreed to make available > figures and text selections from any of Elsevier's more than 2,000 > journal titles for use on OCW. > > As a result of this landmark agreement, select Elsevier content can now > be included within the open access OCW course materials - to be freely > downloaded, used and shared under a Creative Commons license. The > Elsevier content includes up to three figures (including tables and > illustrations) per individual article (or ten per journal volume) and up > to 100 words from a single text extract (or 300 words from a series of > extracts). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
