Net-Art; Remote online digital studio art course

Net-Art is a remote online digital studio art course intended to expose and expand the vocabulary of new media art to the student’s personal visual statements. Students are expected to produce a related series of electronic art works with a…

Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication

Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication Research is international. That’s the way we like it! Multilingualism keeps locally relevant research alive. Protect it! Disseminating research results in your own language creates impact. Endorse it! It is vital to interact…

Documentary Paywall: The Business of Scholarship

Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science. The film questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit…

European Commission adopts CC BY and CC0 for sharing information

Last week the European Commission announced it has adopted CC BY 4.0 and CC0 to share published documents, including photos, videos, reports, peer-reviewed studies, and data. The Commission joins other public institutions around the world that use standard, legally interoperable…

OpenAIRE’s DOIBoost

OpenAIRE’s DOIBoost – Boosting CrossRef for Research Research in information science and scholarly communication strongly relies on the availability of openly accessible datasets of scholarly entities metadata and, where possible, their relative payloads. Since such metadata information is scattered across…

Cleveland Museum of Art, free and open digital images

CC0 at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 30,000 high quality digital images now available. The Cleveland Museum of Art is one of the most visited art museums in the world, and soon it will become one of the most important…

Dockter: a Docker image builder for researchers

Docker is a useful tool for creating reproducible computing environments. But creating truly reproducible Docker images can be difficult – even if you already know how to write a Dockerfile. Dockter makes it easier for researchers to create Docker images…