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Announcing the Alpha Release of Social Media Toolkit
I am happy to share an early testing release of the NewsCloud Social Media Toolkit with you.
- reifman's blog
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NewsCloud Open Source Media Platform (Expanding Access to...)
Challenges Entered:
NewsCloud is an open source platform that reduces barriers for community groups integrating news-based social networks into their existing Web sites. NewsCloud seeks funds to make its platform as easy to install and extend as Wikimedia, Drupal, et al
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Public Library of Science on the NetSquared Podcast
You can listen to an interview on the NetSquared Podcast by Net Tuesday podcaster, David Collin, with two folks from the Public Library of Science:
Richard Cave, IT Director, and Barbara Cohen, Executive Editor of PLoS Publications & Senior Editor of PLoS Medicine. You can also listen to their presentation and follow along on their PowerPoint by downloading it here. - Britt Bravo's blog
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Calling All Geeks: What You Can Do to Support PLoS
Richard Cave and Barbara Cohen from the Public Library of Science gave an awesome presentation at Net Tuesday San Francisco about open access publishing of scientific literature, and the launch of PLoS ONE. PLoS ONE is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication that features reports of primary research from all disciplines within science and medicine, and allows readers to create annotations and discussions. You can download the PowerPoint of their presentation here.
For more info on PLoS ONE's technical background, click here. I'll let you know when the podcast of their presentation and interview is posted on the NetSquared Podcast.
Cave ended the presentation with a call to action:
• Express support for the Federal Research Public Access Act
• Learn about and contribute your ideas to their work in progress on the PLoS Blog.
• Read about and share new research, sign up for eTOC alerts here.
• Spread the word.
• Surprise them by using their content in ways they could not have imagined
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Creative Commons
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Center for the Public Domain
URL:
www.creativecommons.org
Project Description:
Creative Commons is a nonprofit project that offers "an alternative to a full copyright." Creators of original material can choose on a case-by-case basis which rights to they wish to reserve. All that prospective users of the material have to do is respect the clearly stated policy about attribution, commercial use, derivative works, and future licensing. Fortunately, Creative Commons provides explanations of the policies in something close to human (as opposed to legal) language.
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