Information (Libre)

Non-fiction stuff.

This page only shows free, libre and open information. For a list that includes semi-libre (that is to say, noncommercial and verbatim works), see Information (Common Content).

General

Information

• Australian Budget 2012-2013 ● The federal government budget and budget overview for 2012-2013.
• Australian Government Intellectual Property Manual ● Government guidelines for implementing 'open licensing'.
• Bounty Hunters, Map Makers & Gold Diggers ● Metaphors for Designing Fair Intellectual Property Laws
• CopySouth Dossier ● 'Issues in the economics, politics, and ideology of copyright in the global South'
• Creative Commons: A User Guide ● A step-by-step guide to the world of CC licences.
• Critical Point Of View ● An INC Reader for Wikipedia.
• Data Journalism Handbook ● "[A] free, open source reference book for anyone interested in the emerging field of data journalism."
• Drafting The Gift Domain ● "an introduction to Open Content projects with respect to how they work, how they are designed, and how they continue to exist alongside Market driven entities."
• eLife ● "eLife is a unique collaboration between funders and practitioners of research to communicate influential discoveries in the life and biomedical sciences in the most effective way."
• Free as in Freedom ● A biography of free software guru Richard Stallman.
• Free Beer (book) ● A book about free software and free culture from the speakers at FSCONS 2008.
• Full Circle Magazine ● A free, independent magazine for Ubuntu Linux.
• Integrity at Scale ● A book proposing the Redesign Revolution.
• International Journal of the Commons ● A journal that discusses resources that can be shared and used collectively.
• In the Shade of the Commons ● About bridging the gaps between information societies.
• Is It Open Data? ● "We've made it easy for you to make enquiries to data holders about the openness of the material they hold — and to record publicly the results of those efforts."
• It's a Jetsons World ● A book which contrasts extraordinary private innovation with government recalcitrance.
• Let's CC ● A South Korean search engine for Creative Commons materials.
• Libre Culture ● An anthology arguing for freeing up works from copyright.
• Libre Graphics Magazine ● A magazine focused on GIMP, Inkscape and other open source graphics software — as well as the art created from that software.
• Moving Image Contest ● The results of a contest to explain the tension between culture and copyright.
• Open Data Handbook ● 'This handbook introduces you to the legal, social and technical aspects of open data. It can be used by anyone but is especially useful for those working with government data. It discusses the why, what and how of open data – why to go open, what open is, and the how to do open.'
• Open Data, Open Society ● A research project about openness of public data in EU local administrations
• Open Educational Resources in the People’s Republic of China ● "IITE has published a new analytical survey “Open Educational Resources in the People’s Republic of China: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects for Development” prepared by Chunyan Wang and Guodong Zhao."
• Producing Open Source Software ● "How to Run a Successful Free Software Project"
• Spectrum of Rights ● A cute explanation of how Creative Commons licences work
• Tex for the Impatient ● 'TeX for the Impatient is a ~350 page book on TeX, plain TeX, and Eplain, written by Paul Abrahams, Kathryn Hargreaves, and Karl Berry.'
• The Case for Copyright Reform ● "The book is a compilation of the strongest articles on reform of the copyright monopoly from Christian Engström (MEP) and [Rick Falkvinge]"
• The Digital Public Domain ● "[T]he authors argue that the Public Domain — that is, the informational works owned by all of us, be that literature, music, the output of scientific research, educational material or public sector information — is fundamental to a healthy society."
• The Libre Labyrinth ● "Navigating the Maze of Free and NonFree Licenses"
• The Open Utopia ● An open content take on Thomas More's Utopia.
• The Power of Open ● A book from Creative Commons about how those licences have been used in various projects.
• WE_Magazine ● A magazine about collective action.
• Wikipedia ● A libre encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
• Writer's Dice Guide ● A guide for using writer's dice.

Sources of Information

• Against Monopoly ● A blog on intellectual property.
• Australian Electoral Commission ● The government body that supervises and manages elections.
• Australian Government ● The government of the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Center For The Study Of The Public Domain ● A center at Duke Law School.
• 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.'
• Connexions ● An open education repository.
• CopySouth Research Group ● A group of researchers seeking to reveal the negative impact of copyright on the Global South.
• Creative Commons ● A non-profit organisation devoted to increasing the number of works available for all to share and adapt.
• Crystal Obelisk ● A collection of resources for medieval study and tabletop gaming.
• 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."
• Freebase ● A repository of structured data.
• 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."
• Institute of Network Cultures ● An institute which studies media, networks and the Internet.
• Internet Archive ● An organisation devoted to permanent access to digital collections.
• La Quadrature du Net ● 'La Quadrature du Net is an advocacy group defending the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet.'
• La Scuola in Chiaro ● Data about Italian education.
• LectureLeaks ● A site that encourages students to post recordings of their lectures.
• Nina Paley ● Question Copyright's artist in residence.
• OnlineComputerBooks.com ● A website with many free ebooks, some of which are open.
• Open Knowledge Foundation ● 'We build tools and communities to promote open knowledge around the world.'
• opensource.com ● "At opensource.com, we want to show you the places where the open source way is multiplying ideas and effort, even beyond technology."
• Openstax College ● 'OpenStax College offers students free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses.'
• O'Reilly ● A publishing company.
• P2PU ● An online learning community.
• President of Russia ● The website of the President of the Russian Federation.
• Public Domain Review ● Reviews and catalogues of works in the public domain.
• Public Knowledge ● Preserves 'the openness of the Internet and the public's access to knowledge, promotes creativity through balanced copyright, and upholds and protects the rights of consumers to use innovative technology lawfully.'
• Public Library of Science ● Scientific and medical knowledge shared with the world.
• QuestionCopyright.org ● An advocacy group for copyright reform.
• Richard Stallman ● Free software advocate and guru.
• Safecast ● A project to empower people with data by distributing the load of data collection.
• Saylor Foundation ● A foundation to make education free for all.
• SpringerOpen ● An open access publisher in medicine, science and technology.
• The Libertarian Standard ● A libertarian blog.
• Wikimedia Foundation ● A free culture project that gathers a number of wikis.
• Wikinews ● "The Wikinews project is a free content news source of the Wikimedia Foundation that seeks to provide content, free of charge, where everyone is invited to contribute reports about events large and small, either from direct experience, or summarized from elsewhere."
• World Bank Open Knowledge Repository ● "The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products."

Blogs

Blogs

Sources of Blogs

About Libre

Works About Libre

• Bounty Hunters, Map Makers & Gold Diggers ● Metaphors for Designing Fair Intellectual Property Laws
• CopySouth Dossier ● 'Issues in the economics, politics, and ideology of copyright in the global South'
• Creative Commons: A User Guide ● A step-by-step guide to the world of CC licences.
• Drafting The Gift Domain ● "an introduction to Open Content projects with respect to how they work, how they are designed, and how they continue to exist alongside Market driven entities."
• Free as in Freedom ● A biography of free software guru Richard Stallman.
• Free Beer (book) ● A book about free software and free culture from the speakers at FSCONS 2008.
• International Journal of the Commons ● A journal that discusses resources that can be shared and used collectively.
• It's a Jetsons World ● A book which contrasts extraordinary private innovation with government recalcitrance.
• Libre Culture ● An anthology arguing for freeing up works from copyright.
• Libre Graphics Magazine ● A magazine focused on GIMP, Inkscape and other open source graphics software — as well as the art created from that software.
• Moving Image Contest ● The results of a contest to explain the tension between culture and copyright.
• Open Data Handbook ● 'This handbook introduces you to the legal, social and technical aspects of open data. It can be used by anyone but is especially useful for those working with government data. It discusses the why, what and how of open data – why to go open, what open is, and the how to do open.'
• Open Data, Open Society ● A research project about openness of public data in EU local administrations
• Spectrum of Rights ● A cute explanation of how Creative Commons licences work
• The Libre Labyrinth ● "Navigating the Maze of Free and NonFree Licenses"
• The Power of Open ● A book from Creative Commons about how those licences have been used in various projects.

Sources of Works About Libre

Data

Data

• Data Journalism Handbook ● "[A] free, open source reference book for anyone interested in the emerging field of data journalism."
• Is It Open Data? ● "We've made it easy for you to make enquiries to data holders about the openness of the material they hold — and to record publicly the results of those efforts."

Sources of Data

• data.gv.at ● Data from the Austrian government.
• dati.camera.it ● Data from the Italian Parliament.
• Harvard Library Open Metadata ● Metadata from the Harvard Library.
• La Scuola in Chiaro ● Data about Italian education.