"Thesocialopac.net is the official website of the Social OPAC application suite--an open source social discovery platform for bibliographic data. The purpose of this site is to build a cohesive community of users and developers around the SOPAC project suite."

Getting Started guide
Documentation page

Etude comparative des principaux SIGB libres
(source: Tristan Müller, Premier congrès mondial de l’Association Internationale Francophone des Bibliothécaires Documentalistes (AIFBD) et colloque satellite IFLA 2008 en collaboration avec le Programme ALP, « Francophonies et bibliothèques : innovations, changements et réseautage », août 2008)

"Cette étude comparative des principaux SIGB libres identifie d’abord les SIGB libres qui sont véritablement des logiciels libres dont leur communauté est vivante et présente des éléments de viabilité et de pérennité. Les SIGB libres identifiés sont ensuite évalués selon le nombre de fonctionnalités disponibles et la qualité d’implantation de celles-ci dans une grille de 797 spécifications regroupées en catégories et en modules. Cette méthodologie scientifique éprouvée permet de faire ressortir les forces et les faiblesses de chaque SIGB libre. Koha est le SIGB libre qui démontre le plus de potentiel, de vitalité et pérennité. Il est aussi le plus achevé, suivi de près par Evergreen qui démontre également un grand potentiel de vitalité et de pérennité et par la qualité de l’implantation de ses fonctionnalités, puis par PMB qui ne démontre pas autant de vitalité que souhaité et par ses fonctionnalités orientées Web 2.0 et services Web."

Via Klog

- Free for All: Open Source Software
(source: School Library Journal, 01/08/08 / par Karen Schneider)
Open source software has become a catchword in libraryland. Yet many remain unclear about open source’s benefits—or even what it is.

- SPARC Open Access Newsletter (n° 124, août 08)

- Open.Michigan
(source: OAN, 03/08/08)
Le portail des projets sur le libre accès de l'université du Michigan (E.-U.).
Voir aussi: [blog] [wiki]

- Open Web Foundation
(source: O'Reilley Radar, 24/07/08)
"An organization that will help the creation and acceptance of Open Web. As the web grows there is an increasing need for interoperability between sites"

- Are Online and Free Online Access Broadening or Narrowing Research?
(source: Open Access Archivangelism, 03/08/08)
Réflexion de S. Harnard à propos de l'article suivant: Evans, James A. (2008) Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship Science 321(5887): 395-399 DOI:10.1126/science.1150473

- Open Access Publishing in Science: Why It Is Highly Appreciated But Rarely Used
(source: OAN / à paraître dans Communications of the ACM)

- O’Reilly OSCON Open Source Convention (présentations)
(source: iLibrarian, 07/08/08)

- Open access: ressources
(source: W. Crawford sur Palinet Leadership Network / via iLibrarian, 11/08/08)

- Modèles économiques des revues en libre accès
(source: Open Access Directory)

- Politique de libre accès de l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), France
En sciences sociales et humaines

- The Open Software Service Definition (v1.0)
(source: The Open Knowledge Definition / via OAN, 14/07/08)
An open software service is one:
1. Whose data is open as defined by the open knowledge definition with the exception that where the data is personal in nature the data need only be made available to the user (i.e. the owner of that account).
2. Whose source code is: 2.1. Free/Open Source Software (that is available under a license in the OSI or FSF approved list -- see note 3); 2.2. Made publicly available

- Open Source: The Dark Horse of Software?
(source: Computing Reviews, 15/07/08)
Frequently we have the need to explain open source software (OSS) to people who may not have a high level of familiarity with, and perhaps actually skepticism of, the concept. Unfortunately, all too frequently articles or other informational pieces that could be useful take on a decidedly "rah-rah" tone in support of OSS, which casts serious doubts on the validity and objectivity of the piece. Thankfully, this is not the case with this article. In a well laid out and neutral fashion based on evidence culled from research into open source projects, the author describes the major issues one faces related to evaluation and implementation of open source software and gives some practical tips related to both topics. Written from the perspective of a researcher, this article could be useful as an "intro piece" for your library's administrative team if you are in the midst of evaluating open source software.

- Public Domain, Copyright Licenses and the Freedom to Integrate Science
(source: Journal of Science Communication, vol. 7, n° 2, 2008)
In this article, John Wilbanks, Vice President of the Science Commons, makes a passionate plea for putting scientific databases in the public domain.

- NIH Public Access Policy Webcast
(source: ARL, 10/03/08)
The webcast explored options for institutional responses to the new Public Access Policy adopted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and focused particularly on the need for institutions to develop strategies for ensuring the retention of deposit rights by investigators.

- LiveContent 2.0
(source: Creative Commons via PSLB, 10/03/08)
LiveContent 2.0 is a LiveDVD full of free and open source software and Creative Commons' licensed open content - audio, video, image, text and educational resources. LiveContent is a project for anyone to explore to learn more about about open content that can be freely used, copied, and built upon

- Open Source Hardware (présentation/pdf)
(source: JISC Cetis, 17/03/08)

- Acceptance of the JISC/SURF Licence to Publish & accompanying Principles by traditional publishers of journals (pdf)
(source: Surf Foundation, rapport final, déc. 07 via Libre accès à l'IST, 10/03/08)

- Publisher Proxy Deposit Is A Potential Trojan Horse
(source: Open Access Archivangelism, 18/03/08)

- Springer courtise les informaticiens: A Free Library of Computer Science Knowledge

- IGLOO
Built by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), the IGLOO Library is an Open Access online repository comprised of thousands of electronic resources gathered from hundreds of partnering organizations from around the world. All documents are available for free full-text download from anywhere at anytime.

A lire, notamment, dans la dernière livraison de D-Lib Magazine (vol. 14, n° 3-4, mar.-avr.08):

- The Australian METS Profile - A Journey about Metadata
(Judith Pearce, David Pearson, Megan Williams and Scott Yeadon, National Library of Australia)
In any journey, there's a destination but half the 'fun' is getting there. This article chronicles our journey towards a common way of packaging and exchanging digital content in a future Australian data commons – a national corpus of research resources that can be shared and re-used. Whatever packaging format is used, it has to handle complex content models and work across multiple submission and dissemination scenarios. It has to do this in a way that maintains a history of the chain of custody of objects over time. At the start of our journey we chose METS extended by PREMIS to do this. We learnt a lot during the first two stages that we want to share with those travelling to a similar destination.

- Using Open Source Social Software as Digital Library Interface
(Erik Mitchell and Kevin Gilbertson, Wake Forest University)
This article investigates the use of social software applications in digital library environments. It examines the use of blogging software as an interface to digital library content stored in a separate repository. The article begins with a definition of digital library approaches and features, examines ways in which open source and social software applications can serve to fill digital library roles, and presents a case study of the use of blogging software as a public interface to a project called Digital Forsyth, a grant-funded project involving three institutions in Forsyth County, NC. The article concludes with a review of positive and negative outcomes from this approach and makes recommendations for further research.

- SPARC Open Access Newsletter (mars 2008)
Largement consacrée au mandat récemment adopté à Harvard.

- How To Integrate University and Funder Open Access Mandates
(source: Open Access Archivangelism, 03/03/08)

- Another Blow to DRM: Major Audio Book Publishers Drop It
(source: DigitalKoans)
First Random House, now the Penguin Group have said that they will drop DRM (Digital Rights Management) protection from digital audio books and use the popular MP3 format instead.
Read more about it at "Penguin Audiobooks to Be Copyright-Free" and "Publishers Phase Out Piracy Protection on Audio Books"

- De Robbio, Antonella (2008), Non solo copyright: le vie dell'Open Access (*). Delivered at Non solo copyright: le vie dell'Open Access, Padova (Italy). Présentation déposée sur E-LIS (05/03/08).
(*) "Pas seulement une question de copyright: les voies du libre accès"

- Publisher partnership ready to go for gold
(source: Research Information, fév.-mar. 08)
Sage has become the first major journal publisher to break ranks and announce the creation of a range of new open-access (OA) electronic titles in partnership with established OA publisher Hindawi. The joint venture will use the ‘gold’ OA model, where authors pay for their papers to be published, and the journals have a liberal licensing structure that allows free redistribution.

- Interview de John Wilbanks, vice-président de Science Commons, par Richard Poynder
(source: Libre accès à l'IST, 05/03/08)

- Proteopedia
(source: OAN, 04/03/08)
OA database for "making structural biology clearer for chemists and biologists by linking textual content to 3D structures".

- Kjerstin Gjengedal, Harvard makes Open Access compulsory. In light of recent move by Harvard, Norway's University of Bergen is considering an OA policy
(source: På Høyden, 03/03/08 via OAN, 04/03/08)

- Peter Murray-Rust, Repositories for Scientific Data (at OR08), A Scientist and the Web, March 4, 2008.
(source: OAN, 06/03/08)
An abstract of a forthcoming keynote address at Open Repositories 2008 (April 1-4, 2008, Southampton)

- IEEE rejoint l'initiative SCOAP3 (communiqué de presse/pdf)
(source: Libre accès à l'IST, 07/03/08)

- Open Bibliographic Data: The State of Play
(source: Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog via OAN, 07/03/08)

- OA mandate at the U of Tasmania
(source: OAN, 08/03/08)

- Microsoft affiche sa volonté d'ouverture
(source: Le Monde)
Le numéro un mondial des logiciels a annoncé, jeudi [28/02/08], qu'il va donner accès librement et gratuitement à la documentation technique associée à la plupart de ses produits phares.

- Open Science, Open Seminars
(source: UK Web Focus)

- A new OSI-supported OA source book
(source: EPT via OAN)

- SCOAP3 US Focal Meeting (Berkeley, 29/02/2008): les présentations sont en ligne
(source: OAN)

- Michael Jensen, Open Access, re Journals vs. Books (29/02/2008)
(source: Publishing Frontier via OAN)

- BMC Research Notes
(source: BioMed via OAN)
New, peer-reviewed OA journal published by BioMed Central

- Perspectivia.net
(source: OAN)
OA platform for the research of the six German historical institutes outside Germany

- Open Access is the answer for interdisciplinary research
(source: PhysMath Central Blog via OAN)

- Free Online Courses from Great Universities (podcasts)
(source: OpenCulture via OAN)

- Chris Anderson, Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business
(source: Wired Magazine)

- Columbia University Press has announced that Gutenberg-e is now an open access site. These award winning monographs, coordinated with the American Historical Association, afford emerging scholars new possibilities for online publications, weaving traditional narrative with digitized primary sources, including maps, photographs, and oral histories.
(source: université de Columbia via PSLB)

- Scholarly Research Exchange
(source: PSLB)
A peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles in all areas of science, technology, and medicine. In addition to its open access publication model, Scholarly Research Exchange brings a number of important innovations to the traditional scholarly journal publishing system. Most importantly, the journal employs a transparent peer review system in which authors and reviewers interact directly. The names of the reviewers and their assessment of the quality of the manuscript will be published alongside accepted manuscripts. In addition, each of the reviewers can opt for publishing a written commentary on the manuscript.

Une interview de Chris Anderson sur CNet News à propos de l'open source et de la "longue traîne" (long tail).

Q: How does open source play into the Long Tail?
Anderson: Anybody writing software for anyone to consume for any reason. That's the Long Tail applied to open source. Open source is fundamentally a marketplace in which anyone can participate. It's a meritocracy. It's a more efficient way of discovering development talent, rather than the old model of hiring out of universities and such.
This has serious repercussions for an industry that is starved for talent. The distribution of participants is more dispersed in the online world. As a result, you get more new ideas, different approaches, talents, and energies that come from surprising places. These would not have been identified in past years. (I interjected that Ross Mason, founder of the Mule project and inhabitant of Malta, is a good example of this.)

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JISC -- Interview de Ross Gardler (boss de OSS Watch) à propos des applications open source

Educause -- The Top-Ten Challenges of the Academic Technology Community