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)

General

Information

• Where Are Your Keys? ● A game for teaching languages in a fun and accessible way
• Why Open Education Matters ● A contest where people were asked to 'Create a short video that explains the benefits and promise of Open Educational Resources for teachers, students and schools everywhere.'
• Why the Heck Should I Care about the TPP? ● What it says.
• Wikipedia ● A libre encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
• WikiPremed MCAT Course ● 'WikiPremed's mission is to lower economic barriers to becoming a doctor and to improve the quality of MCAT review for everyone.'
• Winning the Web ● '[T]his report represents a comprehensive survey of techniques employed in recent access to knowledge (A2K) activism that have succeeded in taking intellectual property (IP) reform issues to a wide audience.'
• Writer's Dice Guide ● A guide for using writer's dice.
• Yorokobu ● A Spanish language magazine about innovation, inspiration, trends, sustainability and the adventures of entrepreneurs.

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Sources of Information

• SpringerOpen ● An open access publisher in medicine, science and technology.
• Standford Engineering Everywhere ● 'SEE programming includes one of Stanford’s most popular engineering sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford undergraduates, and seven more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering.'
• Stephen Kinsella ● An anti-IP libertarian writer and lawyer.
• Streetfilms ● Documenting Livable Streets Worldwide
• Talis ● A private company in the 'innovation business'.
• Techdirt ● A tech news site.
• Terry Hancock ● An author.
• The Conversation ● Peer reviewed journalism.
• The Libertarian Standard ● A libertarian blog.
• Traficantes de Sueños ● A Spanish book publisher.
• training.gov.au ● A website cooperation between state and federal governments.
• unglue.it ● A project to crowdfund the application of Creative Commons licensing
• UNZ.org ● A collection of scanned journal articles.
• Victorian Government Data Directory ● Self-explanatory.
• White House ● The website of the President of the United States.
• Wikidata ● 'Wikidata is a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike.'
• 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."
• Wiley Open Access ● A variety of journals published by Wiley.
• 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."
• Yochai Benkler ● A professor of law and author of works on commons-based production.
• Zenhabits ● 'Zen Habits is about finding simplicity in the daily chaos of our lives.'

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Books

Books

• 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?'
• 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."
• 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. '
• Frontier Encounters ● 'Frontier Encounters presents a wide range of views on how the borders between [China, Russia and Mongolia] are enacted, produced, and crossed.'
• Homotopy Type Theory: Univalent Foundations Of Mathematics ● 'Homotopy type theory is a new branch of mathematics that combines aspects of several different fields in a surprising way.'
• Is Behavioral Economics Doomed? ● 'Those of you who have read about – and who has not? – the current economic crisis may wonder just how rational economic man or woman is. Behavioral economics has become the modern rage. So is rational economic man – homo economicus – dead?'
• Open Minded CEOs ● A book.
• So You Want to Be a Librarian ● 'Provides information about librarianship as a career, including types of libraries, types of jobs within libraries, professional issues, and educational requirements.'
• The Foundations for an Open Source City ● A book about how Raleigh, North Carolina became an 'open source city'.
• The Open Source Way ● A book about open source projects.

Sources of Books

• David K Levine ● An author.
• Open Book Publishers ● A publisher of open access and shareable books.
• Pratham Books ● A publisher of multicultural and multilingual children's books.

Blogs

Blogs

• Deconcrete ● A blog about the lives of buildings and lives in buildings.
• Lowering The Bar ● Funny tales of the law.
• Open the Future ● A futurism blog.
• Sharing is Liberty ● A blog about copyright reform.

Sources of Blogs

• Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom ● Anti-IP libertarian blog from Stephen Kinsella.
• David K Levine ● An author.
• Global Voices ● A network of bloggers.

Journals

Journals

• Copyright in Databases in Australia ● An article on the circumstances under which copyright would apply to databases.
• International Free & Open Source Software Law Review ● The International Free and Open Source Software Law Review (IFOSS L. Rev.) is a collaborative legal publication aiming to increase knowledge and understanding among lawyers about Free and Open Source Software issues.
• Libertarian Papers ● A journal of libertarian scholarship.
• Open Hardware Journal ● A journal about open hardware.
• SCIRES-IT ● '[P]rovides a forum for the exchange and sharing of know-how in the areas of Digitalization and Multimedia Technologies and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) in support of Cultural and environmental Heritage (CH) documentation, preservation and fruition.'

Sources of Journals

• Directory of Open Access Journals ● 'Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals.'
• 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.
• Public Library of Science (PLOS) ● Scientific and medical knowledge shared with the world.
• UNZ.org ● A collection of scanned journal articles.

Data

Data

• 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 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.'
• BibServer ● 'BibServer is a tool for quickly and easily sharing collections of bibliographic metadata.'
• 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."
• La Cura, an Open Source Cure ● "A brain cancer. Some very personal Open Data. An opportunity."
• Linked Open Vocabularies ● '[Y]our entry point to the growing ecosystem of linked open vocabularies (RDFS or OWL ontologies) used in the Linked Data Cloud.'
• myPolice Data ● Queensland police force sharing its crimes data.
• National Elevation Data Framework ● 'Digital elevation data which describes Australia's landforms and seabed'
• Open Bibliographic Data Guide ● '[T]he business cases for Open Bibliographic Data – releasing some or all of a library’s catalogue records for open use and re-use by others.'
• Open States ● View US legislation.
• Panton Discussions ● Conversations about open data in science.
• Queensland Government Data ● 'The Queensland Government will release as much public data as possible, free to anyone who wishes to use it. This data has been gathered using public money and is the property of the people of Queensland and so, where suitable, we will release it.'

Sources of Data

• 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.
• 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.'
• Harvard Library Open Metadata ● Metadata from the Harvard Library.
• La Scuola in Chiaro ● Data about Italian education.
• Open Library ● A project to create one page for every book ever published.
• OpenCorporates ● A database on corporations.
• Victorian Government Data Directory ● Self-explanatory.
• Wikidata ● 'Wikidata is a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike.'

Gift Guides

Gift Guides

• 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.'
• Top Ten Open Source Gifts for the Holidays ● 'The opensource.com team gathered ten of our favorite gadgets to help you pick out that perfect present for that special (open source) someone.'

Sources of Gift Guides

Open Educational Resources

OER

• A Mathematical Way To Think about Biology ● 'A mathematical way to think about biology comes to life in this lavishly illustrated video book.'
• Ed Startup 101 ● 'Ed Startup is designed to acquaint educators, educational researchers, and others to the world of entrepreneurship and intrapeneurship, help you decide which one is right for you, and support you in the first steps of your journey.'
• Free to Mix ● 'The guide gives you information, activities and ideas to confidently create a remix from material you know you have the rights to reuse.'
• National Repository of Open Educational Resources ● 'National Repository of Open Educational Resources offers resources for all school subjects and grades in multiple languages. The resources are available in the form of concept maps, videos, audio clips, talking books, multimedia, learning objects, photographs, diagrams, charts, articles, wikipages and textbooks.'
• New Education Highway ● A non-profit working with OER and local educators.
• OER@AVU ● Academic material from African universities.
• OpenChem ● An entire chemistry curriculum.
• OpenTest ● 'OpenTest is a Collaborative Assessment Database for OpenEducation.'
• Oppia ● 'Oppia is a tool for creating interactive online activities that enable students to learn by doing.'
• Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning ● '[D]escribes the [OER] movement in detail, providing readers with insight into OER’s significant benefits, its theory and practice, and its achievements and challenges.'
• #PHONAR ● Undergraduate photography class.
• School of Open ● 'Learn open practices at School of Open.'
• Teaching Copyright ● 'EFF's Teaching Copyright curriculum was created to help teachers present the laws surrounding digital rights in a balanced way.'
• Why Open Education Matters ● A contest where people were asked to 'Create a short video that explains the benefits and promise of Open Educational Resources for teachers, students and schools everywhere.'

Sources of OER

• 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.
• JISC ● ' JISC is the UK’s expert on information and digital technologies for education and research'
• K-12 Tech Tools ● 'This website features a collection of free, kid-safe, online resources categorized by subject, grade level, and standard'
• Khan Academy ● Lessons and tests so you can teach yourself.
• Lumen Learning ● Open course frameworks: blueprints for teaching with OER
• mathispower4u ● 'This site provides over 2,600 free mini-lessons and example videos with no ads. The videos are organized by course and topic.'
• MIT OpenCourseWare ● 'MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.'
• OER Commons ● Support for and information about OER and a place to host it.
• OER Knowledge Cloud ● 'The OER Knowledge Cloud has been established to identify, collect, preserve and disseminate available documents of enduring value to researchers, industry, government, scholars, writers, historians, journalists and informal learners.'
• OERu ● 'OERu gives you the chance to study independently, from home, with access to world-class courses from recognised institutions.'
• Open Course Library ● 'The Open Course Library is a collection of expertly developed educational materials – including textbooks, syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments – in 81 high-enrollment college courses.'
• Open Educational Resources for Teacher Education ● The name says it all.
• OpenStax CNX ● A repository of OER.
• OpenTextBookStore ● 'We scour the Internet for the best quality textbooks issued under open licenses that allow for printing.'
• Standford Engineering Everywhere ● 'SEE programming includes one of Stanford’s most popular engineering sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford undergraduates, and seven more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering.'
• Wiley Open Access ● A variety of journals published by Wiley.