Topic 5 2015, Page 2

In 2014, Getty Images, the world’s largest stock photo agency, made a vast number of its photo library free to use, in order to try and combat piracy. [1] Some saw this unprecedented move as a “game changer for bloggers and content marketing in general.” [2] But the news of Getty’s change was met with frustration from some angry photographers whose images may now never be used commercially. Continue reading →

The common model for producers of music artists for years has been to create music and then sell it which seems like quite a good business model. With the rise of the internet this model has been blown out of the water as content can easily be distributed between people for free which means that artists are having to come up with other ways of earning money. Continue reading →

“Piracy is a service problem” – Gabe Newell, founder of digital video game store Steam, one of the most successful digital stores in the world Before I make my cool points about free open content on the internet and put on my sunglasses and surf, I’m going to talk briefly about Netflix. See traditional media hit a bit of a snag once the internet strolled into town, I mean pirated movies used to be easy to crack down on – you just arrested the distributor. Continue reading →

“Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment.” For one of my modules this semester, I was asked to assess the causal relationship of an environmental factor and health outcome. Sir Austin Bradford Hill states that medical plausibility is dependent on “the biological knowledge of the day”. But if we cannot access this knowledge, how can we decide? http://www.theguardian. Continue reading →

Open Source refers to the concept of publishing the source code of your program. This means publishing absolutely every detail of how it works, has been manufactured and tested. Open Source was first proposed by the free software movement, and goes one step further than free access to the software. Continue reading →

You’d be hard pressed to find a student or scientist who is against the concept of Open Access. After all, information is power and power belongs to the people. But at the same time people also deserve to be compensated for their work. How do you reconcile these two competing ideas in a society that reflects the value of […] The post Open Access: Can It All Be So Simple? appeared first on Russell Kingsfield. Continue reading →

First of all, check out the short Powtoon I made… This week I am going to be discussing the advantages and disadvantages of a content producer making their materials freely available online. Open access is defined nicely in this video: ‘Open access is free, immediate, online availability of research articles with full re-use rights.’ This means the content is available to anyone wherever in the world. Continue reading →

For this week’s blog I have decided to do a prezi, there is no sound on it and I have posted all links in the reference section here. Please enjoy. https://prezi.com/nm-g1z6fl7kj/open-access/ References http://www.forbes.com/sites/skollworldforum/2013/04/07/education-finally-ripe-for-radical-innovation-by-social-entrepreneurs/ http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/feb/18/open-access-key-issue-university-leaders?CMP=twt_gu http://www.theguardian. Continue reading →

Source Open access is “about making all scientific research content available for anyone anywhere in the world” (Shockey and Eisen, 2012). The short video below explains the key difference between open and restricted access, using the characters of Charles and Julie. Throughout this module, we have been embracing the digital tools and information available to us in order to develop our knowledge on different topics and make new discoveries. Continue reading →

Whilst doing my research for my first blog post for Topic 5, I read the contributions of the UOSM2033ers who were quicker off the mark this week. Continue reading →

The open access debate is exhaustive with passionate stances both for and against publishing freely available online content. Before reading anything, this question didn’t seem debatable to me: of course everything should be open access, to facilitate educational and scientific advances. After all, “education is first and foremost an enterprise of sharing”. However after some research, I realised that in practice it’s not as easy nor perhaps as beneficial as it may seem. Continue reading →

No such thing as a free lunch: adverts targeted at users subsidise free sites. Image: https://digitalfireflymarketing.com/why-facebook-free-use.   I was going to start with a wonderful article on the benefits of freely available web content – but I couldn’t remember my password to access it. I am, of course, joking. A great deal of web material is available for free, even if some publishers choose to charge a fee for many of their articles. Continue reading →

Taken from http://blog.okfn.org/category/open-access/ Sir Tim Berners-Lee envisaged the internet as being something accessible to as many people as possible which is why he invented the World Wide Web. The open access movement share this belief and push for information, particularly scholarly information, to be more widely available without charge. The idea of content being available freely online seems highly desirable but it is not without its risks. Continue reading →

The face of an Open Internet? Confused? You won’t be if you have been following the latest victory in Open Access this year. This is the news that since the start of December 2015, the Sun has removed its online paywall. So now we are free to see the latest addition of Dear Deidre: Dear Deidre – My girlfriend is a PORNSTAR and a CHEAT What does this signal for Open Access? This signals a reversal of claims made saying 90% of businesses content will be behind paywalls. Continue reading →

Explain the advantages and disadvantages to a content producer of making their materials freely available online Hi everyone, I enjoyed making my Topic 4 summary so much that I decided to try and use SlideShare this week! Please let me know what you think in the comments. This presentation looks way more professional than iSkysoft Slideshow I made last week, so pleased with this weeks development. Continue reading →