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Intute - the right way to provide educational resources Posted by Graham Attwellin General at 3:03 pm

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Intute - the right way to provide educational resources

Second of two posts on new open content initiatives.
“Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains 113495 records.”
Many years ago I was involved in the REM project, run by Bangor University. REM was supposed to be a Resource Locator. It sort of got built - but would only run in Netscape 4 - on a good day - when the servers were feeling friendly. REM was years ahead of its time - so of course the funding was withdrawn. Now 8 years later Intute comes along showing what REM should have been.
Its been a long wait - but its worth it.

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Open Content and publishing on Demand Posted by Graham Attwellin General, Open Content at 2:47 pm

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Inside Higher Ed :: New Model for Scholarly Publishing:
It might be summer but the Open Content movement continues to gather strength.
Here is the first of two post on recent announcements / releases.
“Rice University Press, which was killed in 1996, will be revived. But unlike every other university press, it will publish all of its books online only. People will be able to read the books for no charge and to download them for a modest fee. Editors will solicit manuscripts and peer review panels will vet submissions — all in ways that are similar to the systems in traditional publishing.”
Much to be welcomed especially given Rice’s association with the Connexions project. Interesting - why would I publish through Rice, rather than just put the PDF on my own web site. Guess the answer has to be that they see publishing through the Rice site as conveying some kind of additional prestige. I am not so sure this will work in the long term.

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