Tweet I have always been a fan of www.scientificcommons.org, as the electronic thesis records I curate are among the institutional repositories that are indexed though automated OAI-PMH metadata retrieval to create an organized and searchable record of more than 34 million publications. One minor complaint I have expressed concerns the absence of advanced searching. I [...]
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Tweet What is at the foundation of the open content movement for education? A definition: The essence of an 4R framework described above is a very close cousin of the Creative Commons licensing movement, which has been providing free licenses to mark creative work with legal permission (license) to share, remix, and distribute a broad array [...]
Tags: Biomedical Semantics, Medical Education, OAI-PMH, Open Content, Open Courses
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Tweet Set up an institutional repository of biomedical pre- or post-print papers, theses, or open curriculum, and you wonder: how will my content be discovered? A very elegant solution exists called OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). The original specifications for the OAI-PMH emerged from a coalition of web visionaries and programmers from both the Coalition for [...]
Tags: Andrew Mellon Foundation, CNI, DLF, Green OA, NSF, OAI-PMH, Open Archives Initiative, serials pricing crisis
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