Times Higher covers call for open access to academic knowledge

Times Higher 29 July contains coverage of comments made by Brian Lamb at the Open Educational Resources International Symposium, which was sponsored by JISC.

Brian Lamb is manager of emerging technologies and digital content at the University of British Columbia.

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He called for open access to academic knowledge – and by this, he did not just mean content. THE quotes him:

“Yes, we want open content, but also open source tools, the adoption of open standards, open data and open and transparent practices”.

He went on to add that the social imperative for institutions to share knowledge on the web was, in his view, self-evident.

Brian Lamb has a blog, which he titles: Abject learning – social learning, open education and petty battles with rivals over power and money…

The THE coverage is at http://bit.ly/a3tO3n

NoWAL folk might want to look at this – the piece has already attracted a healthy crop of comments. Many of these address the question of whether or not intellectual property has ‘tangible value’ like physical artefacts.