Information (Shareable)
Non-fiction stuff.
This page shows all shareable information. For a list that only contains free, libre and open works, see Information (Libre)
Information
- 2012 Holiday Giving Guide ● 'The gifts in the left column respect your freedom much more than those in the right column.'
- 2012 Libre Gift Guide ● 'A list of libre things that one might enjoy receiving from one's acquaintances at upcoming gift-giving occasions.'
- A Byte Of Python ● '"A Byte of Python" is a free book on programming using the Python language. It serves as a tutorial or guide to the Python language for a beginner audience.'
- A Free, Libre & Open Glossary ● A definition of terms like 'open source', 'crowdsourcing', 'gratis' and 'shareable content'.
- A Guide to Open Content Licenses ● What it says.
- A Mathematical Way To Think about Biology ● 'A mathematical way to think about biology comes to life in this lavishly illustrated video book.'
- A Story of Healing ● The first CC licensed Academy Award winning film.
- A Survey about Copyright in the Digital Age ● A survey about people's conception of copyright.
- Accessibility, Sustainability, Excellence ● '[R]ecommends a programme of action to enable more people to read and use the publications arising from research.'
- Achieving Impossible Things ● 'Six "impossible things": GNU/Linux, Wikipedia, the Creative Commons, the Blender Foundation, Open Hardware, and the OLPC/Sugar project. All created under free licenses for everyone to use, in defiance of our conventional ideas of business economics. Is it magic, coincidence, or just plain common sense at work here?'
- Aerogel.org ● '[A]n encyclopedic reference about aerogels, how-to guides for making aerogels and building a do-it-yourself supercritical dryer, the world's most comprehensive aerogel image gallery, a podcast with the world's leading aerogel scientists, and more.'
- Against Intellectual Property ● 'Kinsella [argues] that the very existence of patents are contrary to a free market, and adds in here copyrights and trademarks too.'
- All Right to Copy? ● '"All Right to Copy?" is a resource designed to teach students about copyright, and how it impacts them as both users and creators.'
- An Anarchist FAQ ● 'This web page holds an anarchist FAQ. Its aim is to present what anarchism really stands for and indicate why you should become an anarchist.'
- An Open World ● "This collection offers some of the most enpowering stories from our open source community—and perhaps you could be in the next edition."
- Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication ● "Addressing a field that has been dominated by astronomers, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, the contributors to this collection raise questions that may have been overlooked by physical scientists about the ease of establishing meaningful communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence."
- Atlas of Living Australia ● 'The Atlas of Living Australia (Atlas) contains information on all the known species in Australia aggregated from a wide range of data providers: museums, herbaria, community groups, government departments, individuals and universities.'
- Australian Budget 2012-2013 ● The federal government budget and budget overview for 2012-2013.
- Australian Census 2011 ● 'Census DataPacks contain comprehensive data about people, families and dwellings for all available geographic areas, with associated Geographic Information System digital boundary files.'
- Australian Government Intellectual Property Manual ● Government guidelines for implementing 'open licensing'.
- Beginning Titan - The distributed graph database ● "Beginning Titan is a comprehensive guide to Titan database."
- BibServer ● 'BibServer is a tool for quickly and easily sharing collections of bibliographic metadata.'
- Bound By Law? ● A comic book about intellectual property law.
- Boundless ● Textbooks.
- Bounty Hunters, Map Makers & Gold Diggers ● Metaphors for Designing Fair Intellectual Property Laws
- Catastroika ● A documentary about privatisation.
- Centre for Policy Development ● A thinktank.
- Choosing an OSS license doesn’t need to be scary ● A guide to choosing a licence.
- CIA World Factbook ● Details about all the countries of the world.
- Coase's Penguin ● An analysis of the economics behind free, libre and open source software.
- Code ● 'cyberspace has no “nature.” It only has code-the software and hardware that make cyberspace what it is. That code can create a place of freedom-as the original architecture of the Net did-or a place of oppressive control. '
- Code School ● Learn to program.
- Consequences, Risks, and side-effects of the license module Non-Commercial – NC ● The title is comprehensive.
- Constructs of Innocence in Selected Works of Cyberpunk ● A Masters thesis dedicated to Aaron Swartz.
- Cookbook ● Reflections on preparing a crowdsourced FLO textbook.
- Copyright and Creation ● A report from the London School of Economics and Political Science, finding that online sharing does not reduce creator profits.
- Copyright for Librarians ● '"Copyright for Librarians" (CFL) is an online open curriculum on copyright law that was developed jointly with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.'
- Copyright in Databases in Australia ● An article on the circumstances under which copyright would apply to databases.
- Copyright Week ● A project from the EFF about problems with copyright.
- CopySouth Dossier ● 'Issues in the economics, politics, and ideology of copyright in the global South'
- #COPYWRONG ● Facts about how Australian copyright law is out of touch.
- Cosmo Noticias ● Information about space.
- Creative Commons & Government Guide ● A guide to using Creative Commons licensing in government.
- Creative Commons: A User Guide ● A step-by-step guide to the world of CC licences.
- CrisisCommons Wiki ● 'A volunteer and project collaborative space for organizing projects and efforts around disaster relief.'
- Critical Point Of View ● An INC Reader for Wikipedia.
- CryptoParty Handbook ● 'This 392 page, Creative Commons licensed handbook is designed to help those with no prior experience to protect their basic human right to Privacy in networked, digital domains.'
- Data Journalism Handbook ● "[A] free, open source reference book for anyone interested in the emerging field of data journalism."
- Debtocracy ● A documentary about the debt crisis.
- Deconcrete ● A blog about the lives of buildings and lives in buildings.
Sources of Information
- 4uPress ● A crowdsourced newspaper/
- Adapt ● A repository of Australian OER for Adaptation Studies.
- Against Monopoly ● A blog on intellectual property.
- Australian Digital Alliance ● An Australian body providing a 'balanced voice' in copyright discussions.
- Australian Electoral Commission ● The government body that supervises and manages elections.
- Australian Government ● The government of the Commonwealth of Australia.
- Authors Alliance ● 'The Authors Alliance embraces the unprecedented potential digital networks have for the creation and distribution of knowledge and culture. We represent the interests of authors who want to harness this potential to share their creations more broadly in order to serve the public good.'
- Autodesk ● 'You can freely borrow from the Autodesk Help, Support and Video libraries to build a new learning experience for anyone with a particular need or interest.'
- Bloomsbury Academic ● Non-fiction
- Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom ● Anti-IP libertarian blog from Stephen Kinsella.
- Center For The Study Of The Public Domain ● A center at Duke Law School.
- CK-12 Foundation ● Creates open access textbooks for primary and secondary school students.
- CommentHow.com ● Step-By-Step DIY Tutorials for any of the world's almost 7,000 languages.
- Commonwealth of Learning ● An organisation which encourages the sharing of research, knowledge and technology.
- Communia ● 'The Association’s mission is to educate about, advocate for, offer expertise and research about the public domain in the digital age within society and with policy-makers.'
- Comunes ● 'Comunes is a non-profit collective dedicated to facilitating the use of free/libre web tools and resources to collectives and activists alike, with the hopes of encouraging the Commons.'
- Connexions ● An open education repository.
- CopySouth Research Group ● A group of researchers seeking to reveal the negative impact of copyright on the Global South.
- Creationistas ● A lobbying site in favour of fair use.
- Creative Commons ● A non-profit organisation devoted to increasing the number of works available for all to share and adapt.
- Critical Hits ● The journal of gamer culture.
- Crystal Obelisk ● A collection of resources for medieval study and tabletop gaming.
- dados.gov.br ● A portal to the Brazilian government's open data.
- data.gov.au ● 'Data.gov.au provides an easy way to find, access and reuse public datasets from the Australian Government and state and territory governments.'
- data.gv.at ● Data from the Austrian government.
- dati.camera.it ● Data from the Italian Parliament.
- David Bollier ● "David Bollier is a journalist, activist, and longtime scholar of the commons."
- David K Levine ● An author.
- Directory of Open Access Journals ● 'Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals.'
- Electronic Frontier Foundation ● 'Defending your rights in the digital world'
- FarmSubsidy.org ● 'The European Union spends around €55 billion a year on farm subsidies. This website helps people find out who gets what, and why.'
- Free Curricula Center ● The Free Curricula Center (FCC) helps students worldwide reach their educational potential by producing and distributing university-level curricula that can be copied freely and modified cooperatively.
- Freebase ● A repository of structured data.
- FreeLab ● A 'technical support collective for freedom oriented intentional communities'
- Global Voices ● A network of bloggers.
- GoodSemester ● A place to share class notes.
- Greg London ● A programmer, science fiction author and copyright minimalist.
- Harvard Library Open Metadata ● Metadata from the Harvard Library.
- iCommons ● "iCommons is a registered UK charity that promotes collaboration among proponents of open education, access to knowledge, free software, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world."
- Independent Australia ● News.
- Institute of Network Cultures ● An institute which studies media, networks and the Internet.
- Internet Archive ● An organisation devoted to permanent access to digital collections.
- IssueLab ● A collection of information.
- Italian Constitutional Court ● Has an experimental open data section.
- Jagannath Mohanty ● An Odia author and academic.
- JISC ● ' JISC is the UK’s expert on information and digital technologies for education and research'
- Jono Bacon ● Man who is involved in Ubuntu community, also in a band.
- Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication ● "The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication is a quarterly, peer-reviewed open-access publication for original articles, reviews and case studies that analyze or describe the strategies, partnerships and impact of library-led digital projects, online publishing and scholarly communication initiatives."
- Journal of Sustainable Development ● A transdisciplinary international journal published monthly.
- K-12 Tech Tools ● 'This website features a collection of free, kid-safe, online resources categorized by subject, grade level, and standard'
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