DSpace: An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository
The best article yet on MIT Libraries' DSpace implementation, including some good graphics that clearly illustrate the system's functionality and structure. More...

Open Content Network
From the website: "The Open Content Network is a collaborative effort to help deliver large, freely-downloadable content using peer-to-peer technology. The network is essentially a huge 'virtual web server' that links together thousands of computers for the purpose of helping out over-burdened web sites. Using a new Peer-to-Peer technology, called the 'Content-Addressable Web', indviduals will be able to help distribute free content by donating their spare bandwidth and disk space to the network." More...

Open Access Journal Business Guides
The Budapest Open Archives Initiative has just released two important and comprehensive guides: Guide to Business Planning for Converting a Subscription-based Journal to Open Access (991K PDF) and Guide to Business Planning for Launching a New Open Access Journal (686K PDF). More...

Ensuring a Free and Open (Source) Society
Quite simply, "Many governments have come to see proprietary software as a threat to their democratic institutions and have started crafting legislation to meet the challenge." The implications of the use of open source data and processing in a free society are profound. More...

Removing the Barriers to Research: An Introduction to Open Access for Librarians
As the title suggests, this article is an introduction to open access repositories. After introducing the pricing crisis in scholarly publications, Suber outlines what he calls the permission crisis: the maze of rules, regulations and licensing conditions that must be satisfied under current copyright regimes. More...

Open Source Portfolio Initiative
From the website: " The Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI) is a collaborative, open source, software development project based on the University of Minnesota System's (U of MN) electronic portfolio (ePortfolio) software." Via SiT, the OSPI has just made it's first release avaiulable as a download. More...

Open Content and Value Creation
Whe I agitate for free and open content, people are always asking me about how the writer is supposed to get paid. I respond that the writer is paid by the publisher, not by the end user, and that the publisher may be paid by any number of entities: government, corporate sponsors, foundations, or technology providers. More...

OpenEAI Educational Middleware Launch Imminent
This open source project will define an XML based message format and protocol with standardised APIs in Java for enterprise integration. More...