Typer Neylon: Elsevier Loses Its Mind – Seeks to Embargo Knowledge for Four Years

Defend the Right to Share Your Work Academic publisher Elsevier recently changed their rules on how authors may share their work. Authors were previously allowed to share their manuscripts through repositories immediately upon publication; now they may have to wait up to 4 years before doing so. The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), a …

Owl: GoodGopher.com Favors Alternative Media, Bans Corporate and Government Propaganda

Health Ranger launches world’s first search engine that favors New Media while banning corporate and government propaganda: GoodGopher.com The official beta launch announcement is here! The world’s first privacy-protecting search engine that bans corporate propaganda and government disinformation is now ready for webmasters to submit their sites for indexing. The name of the new search …

Nader Ale Ebrahim: Open Knowledge

The Future of Knowledge Sharing for Development in a Digital Age: Delivering an open and fair digital society. Rachel Playforth introduces a new report on how digital technologies might contribute to or damage development agendas in the coming years. Through scenario development planning, the project investigated the landscape of developing countries in the digital age and how …