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Pesquisa mundial sobre código aberto chega ao Brasil
Brasil, Terra, 14/06/2006

Quem são os desenvolvedores de software livre e de código aberto? Onde trabalham e em quais projetos buscam integração? Essas e outras questões serão respondidas por uma pesquisa sobre o impacto do modelo FLOSS de desenvolvimento. A sigla é de Free Libre Open Source Software. O estudo batizado de FlossWorld é coordenado pela Comissão Européia, e tem como parceiros no Brasil o Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia da Informação e a Unicamp. A pesquisa abrange quatro segmentos específicos: desenvolvedores, empresas, governo e universidades.
Fonte: http://tecnologia.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI1042407-EI4801,00.html

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Dinamarca exige padrões abertos
Qua, 2006-06-07 13:12.

O Parlamento da Dinamarca aprovou no início deste mês por unanimidade a resolução B103 pela qual ordena a seu Governo que, a partir de 1 de janeiro de 2008, ou antes, faça obrigatório o uso de padrões abertos informática na administração pública dinamarquesa. O Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação dará o primeiro passo e todos os seus documentos estarão disponíveis em padrões abertos (OpenDocument) a partir de 1 de Setembro de 2006. Mais info: GrokLaw
Fonte: NoticiasLinux

http://www.openoffice.org.br/?q=dinamarca_exige_padroes_abertos

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Open Letter to Ministers Oda and Bernier

Canadian Federation of Students, Ottawa, 17 Apr 06

The Honourable Maxime Bernier P.C., M.P.
Minister of Industry
5th floor, West Tower
C.D. Howe Building
235 Queen St.
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H5

The Honourable Bev Oda P.C., M.P.
Minister of Canadian Heritage
25 Eddy Street
Gatineau, Quebec
K1A 0M5

April 17, 2006

Dear Ministers,

Re: Copyright Legislation

I am writing on behalf of over one-half million members of the Canadian Federation of Students.

In the next year, Parliament will likely examine a Bill to amend the Copyright Act. Students in Canada are greatly concerned about reasonable access to information and knowledge as digital technology increasingly plays an instrumental role in learning and research. Canada’s students have concerns with respect to calls from other stakeholders for legislation that would restrict access to materials on the internet and impose unwarranted and unmanageable fees on libraries, educational institutions and students. We are writing to urge the Canadian government to reject proposals for restrictive copyright laws, and to instead embrace policies that will support Canada’s vibrant and open knowledge community.

Bill C-60, An Act to Amend the Copyright Act, died on the order paper with the fall of the 38th Parliament. While students in Canada were pleased with some of the proposed amendments, the bill could have gone much further to promote Canada’s best interests.

Specifically, our issues include:

1. Legal Protection for Technological Protection Measures (TPMs) and Digital Rights Management (DRM) Developments over the past year have demonstrated that legal protection of TPMs and DRM is unnecessary and would be harmful to Canada’s students. Lobbyists are stating such protections are necessary as an incentive to use such technologies and build “new business models” around them. However, even without special legal protection, the content industry is increasingly rolling out TPMs and DRM. As the Sony BMG “rootkit” DRM amply demonstrated, these technologies are being used not to control copying, but to segment markets and to tie consumers to specific devices, and are dangerous to consumers’ privacy. DRM and TPMs replaces copyright’s balanced allocation of rights
with one dictated by the content distributor. These often infringe on students’ rights to
practice fair dealing with digital works, such as reverse engineering. We call on the
Canadian government to refrain from legislating special protection for DRM and TPMs.

If the government chooses to so legislate, it should do so in a way that:

• Is consistent, and does not replace, copyright law;

• Recognizes appropriate limits on the invasiveness and scope of such technologies; and

• Does not outlaw the “tools” and “devices” that are essential to academic research but that may be used to circumvent TPMs or tamper with DRM.

2. Internet Service Provider (ISP) Liability – “notice and takedown” vs. “notice and notice”:

Previous discussions on this issue have focused on two methods of insulating ISPs from liability for the infringing activities of their customers: “notice and takedown” and “notice and notice”. We urge the government to adopt the “notice and notice” approach to ISP liability, as was outlined in Bill C-60. We oppose a “notice and takedown” procedure, because:

• it aims to silence an alleged infringer without proving infringement;

• it bypasses the mechanisms IP law has developed to arrest use of allegedly infringing material prior to a judgment;

• notice and takedown inhibits freedom of speech; and

• there is evidence that this system is already abused in the United States.

We urge the government to maintain the current “notice and notice” procedure as it was
proposed in Bill C-60. This procedure is preferable because:

• it achieves exactly what the law requires: notice of the allegation of infringement;

• it is up to the content user at that point to decide whether or not to continue with the allegedly infringing activity; and

• the ISP remains neutral in the dispute, and can focus on providing Internet services, not taking sides in a dispute to which it is not a party.

3. Fair Dealing

A shortcoming of the current copyright law to address is the narrow scope of Canada’s “fair dealing” defense. Students in Canada would like to see fair dealing revised to be more in line with the “fair use” defense enjoyed by students in the United States, Canadian students ask this government to amend the Act as follows:

• Eliminate fair dealing’s restrictive, categorical approach (“for the purposes of...”) in favour of an “inclusive” approach (“for purposes including...“)

• Harmonize Canadian laws with American laws to clarify that fair dealing may include making multiple copies of copyrighted materials for classroom use

• Clarify that fair dealing embraces reverse engineering, parody, and the educational use of digital materials.

4. Digital Interlibrary Loan and Distance Learning

Canadian educational institutions are increasingly relying on distance education tools to improve the opportunities for learning enjoyed by Canadian students. Copyright law must support, not impede, this development. Canada’s students increasingly rely on interlibrary loan. Libraries and students need the flexibility and support that this service can provide. We supported Bill C-60’s approach to digital interlibrary loan and distance education, but reject the wastefully burdensome and technologically-partisan manner in which it sought to curtail these user rights. In our view, the Act should not unfairly and needlessly hinder educational institutions, libraries and students. We call on this government to clarify that distance learning and digital interlibrary loan are user rights, and to implement them in a manner that is fair, productive, and technologically neutral.

5. Statutory Damages

We call on this government to reform Canada’s statutory damages regime. Statutory damages have no place in license bargaining between collectives and Canada’s public institutions. Statutory damages are an effective tool to address enforcement of IP rights in commercial piracy cases. Educational institutions, libraries and archives are not commercial pirates. They should not suffer the threat of statutory damages. Students are concerned that the collectives and the major publishing and recording industries– entities motivated by profit–have been wielding too much influence in the process to-date, thereby drowning the legitimate concerns of teachers, researchers, librarians, and students.

In drafting new legislation, we ask members of Parliament to establish widespread consultations with diverse stakeholders on the matter. The last round of consultations was already five years ago and there have been many technological advances and legal developments since then. Students have previously not participated in such consultations and we ask that we be represented in such consultations.

We would welcome the opportunity to discuss these issues with you.

Sincerely,

[Signed in original]

Angela Regnier
National Deputy Chairperson
Canadian Federation of Students

cc: Patricia Neri, Director General, Copyright Policy, Department of Canadian Heritage, Susan Bincoletto, Director General, Marketplace Framework Policy Branch, Industry Canada.

Maio

Abril

Março

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Sparc Newsletter, mês de março
02.03.2006

March issue http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/03-02-06.htm

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Fevereiro

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UniProt (Universal Protein Resource), usa agora licença Creative Commons.
23.02.2006

UniProt is the "the world's most comprehensive catalog of information on proteins",

http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archive/2006/02/09/worlds-largest-protein-db-now-under-cc-license
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_02_05_fosblogarchive.html#113958197701139211

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Textos sobre Acesso Aberto ao Conhecimento e correlatos - mês de fevereiro
23.02.2006

Steven Levy, When the Net Goes From Free to Fee, Newsweek, February 27, 2006. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11433420/site/newsweek

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Six Forthcoming Open Access Events
24/2/2006

1. Researchers and Open Access
Including Workshop on:
"Self-archiving, Institutional Repositories, and its impact on research"
1st European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and
Medicine (ECSP)
Lund, Sweden
http://www.ecspbiomed.net/
21-22 April 2006

2. The Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K)
Yale Law School, New Haven
http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/a2kspeakers.html
21-23 April 2006

3. Open Access and Information Management: International Workshop
Information Management Committee,
NATO Research & Technology Organisation,
Oslo, Norway,
10 May 2006,

4. Open Access Institutional Repositories
Current Research Information Systems (CRIS2006)
Bergen, Norway
http://ct.eurocris.org/CRIS2006/
11-13 May 2006

5. Congrès de l'ACFAS 2006:
L'information scientifique : les impacts du libre accès (515)
McGill, Montréal, Canada
http://www.acfas.ca/congres/
15 mai 2006

6. "Open Access - threat or blessing?"
2nd Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) Munich, Germany,
http://www.esof2006.org/programme2.php4
15 - 19 July 2006

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Hindawi expands its open access publishing program
February 22/2/2006 - from boai-forum@ecs.soton.ac.uk

"Hindawi Publishing Corporation" is pleased to announce a major expansion in its Open Access publishing program through the immediate conversion of over a dozen journals into the OA model. The converted journals are the following:

* Abstract and Applied Analysis
* Advances in Difference Equations
* Boundary Value Problems
* Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
* Fixed Point Theory and Applications
* Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology
* Journal of Applied Mathematics
* Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences
* Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis
* Journal of Automated Methods and Management in Chemistry
* Journal of Inequalities and Applications
* Mediators of Inflammation
* Sarcoma

All current and back volumes of these journals are immediately available free of any subscription or registration barriers on the Hindawi web site. All new articles in these journals will be published under the "Creative Commons Attribution License" which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

This conversion furthers Hindawi's position as one of the leading Open Access publishers, with more than 25 OA journals in the fields of Mathematics, Engineering, Biology, Medicine, and Chemistry. Hindawi is currently the only OA publisher with journal titles spanning such a large number of STM fields.

For more information please contact:

Paul Peters
Senior Publishing Developer
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
paul.peters@hindawi.com

"Hindawi Publishing Corporation" is an STM publisher more than 30 journals as well as two book series. The company web site is located at http://www.hindawi.com.

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INSPIRE directive against OA geographic data
16/2/2006 06:10 - from boai-forum@ecs.soton.ac.uk

The Proposed INSPIRE Directive on creating a European SpatialDataInfrastructure is a piece of EC legislation designed to help National Mapping Agencies collaborate on sharing and creating geographic data across Europe. Unfortunately the Directive as it stands will entrench a damaging 'cost recovery' (monopoly charging) policy that will create huge damage to the European economy and society.

If the INSPIRE directive is adpoted, these agencies will be encouraged to copyright all that publically funded information, making it more difficult and expensive for people to participate in these civic activities.
If you want to sign the petition to reject this decision please go to this web site:

visit: http://petition.publicgeodata.org/

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SPARC Open Access Newsletter, #94 (fevereiro)
2.02.2006

Leia online: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/02-02-06.htm

Janeiro

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OPENDOAR - Diretório de Repüositórios de Acesso Aberto anuncia lista de arquivos OA
27.01.2006, de BOAI List

OpenDOAR - the Directory of Open Access Repositories - is pleased to announce the release of its primary listing of open access archives, available from http://www.opendoar.org

Each of the repositories listed in OpenDOAR have been visited by project staff to check the information that is gathered. This in-depth approach gives a quality-controlled list of repository features.

In addition, while reviewing these archives, project staff are building a picture of the world-wide development of open access repositories, noting new features and
directions. This information is being analysed to create the next version of the listing, with further information and categories being noted for each repository. In the meantime, the newly released list will continue to grow as new repositories are added.

The Press Release on this development is available from this link: http://www.opendoar.org/documents/OpenDOAR_Press_Release_Jan06.pdf

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OpenDOAR is a joint collaboration between the University of Nottingham in the UK and Lund University in Sweden. Both institutions are active in open access initiatives. Lund operates the Directory of Open Access Journals (www.DOAJ.org), which is known throughout the world. Nottingham leads SHERPA, and runs the SHERPA/RoMEO database, which is used worldwide as a reference for publisher's copyright policies.
Staff at Lund University Libraries have created the initial OpenDOAR technical set-up and carried out repository review and classification.
OpenDOAR builds on open access work done by other researchers and projects to record and list repositories. Among others, thanks go to the Public Knowledge Project, and the universities of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Southampton.

OpenDOAR is jointly funded by four agencies, led by the international Open Society Institute (OSI). The UK higher education funding committee, JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) has provided support, along with funding from the UK-based Consortium of Research Libraries (CURL) and from SPARCEurope - an alliance of European research libraries, library organisations, and research institutions.

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Diretório de periódicos de acesso aberto chega a 2000 revistas!
13.01.2006, de [BOAI] Press release

THE DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS REACHES AN IMPORTANT MILESTONE - NOW THERE ARE 2000 JOURNALS IN THE DOAJ

Lund, Sweden – As of today the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ, http://www.doaj.org) contains 2000 open access journals, i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web.

The goal of the Directory of Open Access Journals is still to increase the visibility and accessibility of open access scholarly journals, and thereby promote their increased usage and impact. The directory aims to comprehensively cover all open access scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system. Journals in all languages and subject areas will be included in the DOAJ. The selection criteria have been updated based on feedback from users to be more understandable ( http://www.doaj.org/articles/about#criteria).

The database records are freely available for reuse in library catalogues and other services and can be harvested by using the OAI-PMH ( http://www.openarchives.org/), and thereby increase the visibility of the open access journals.

We are very happy to see that the usage of the DOAJ is constantly increasing on all parameters. Every month visitors from more than 150 countries are using the service, hundreds of libraries all over the world have included the DOAJ titles in their catalogues and other services, and commercial aggregators are as well benefiting of the service.
New titles are added frequently and to ensure that the holding information is correct you have to update your records regularly. We also have to remove titles from DOAJ if they no longer lives up to the selection criteria e.g. during the last 6 months of 2005 50 titles where removed.

We are working with publishers of hybrid journals (subscription based journals where authors /institutions for a publication charge can publish articles in open access) in order to include even these articles in the DOAJ. It is our intention to be able to inform about this in the near future.

Feedback form the community tells us that the DOAJ is an important service. In order to be able to maintain and further develop the service we have decided to launch a Donation Programme that makes it possible for all users/institutions to contribute to the continued maintenance and development of DOAJ. If you/your institution would consider contributing please go to http://www.doaj.org/articles/donation for further information.

DOAJ is or has been supported by the Information Program of the Open Society Institute ( http://www.osi.hu/infoprogram/), along with SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), ( http://www.arl.org/sparc) SPARC Europe, ( http://www.sparceurope.org/), BIBSAM, the Royal Library of Sweden (http://www.kb.se) and Axiell ( http://www.axiell.se/)

If you know of a journal that should be included in the directory, use this form to report it to the directory: http://www.doaj.org//suggest.
Information about how to obtain DOAJ records for use in a library catalogue or other service you will find at: http://www.doaj.org/articles/questions#metadata.

Lotte Jorgensen
Lars Björnshauge

Lund University Libraries, Head Office

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American Museum of Natural History Library oferece seu acervo de revistas online
06.01.2006

The American Museum of Natural History Library is pleased to announce the availability of the complete legacy of the museum’s scientific publications. Both back issues and current-ongoing issues have been digitized and all publications are now openly available on the Web at: http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace

AMNH scientific series disseminate the results of work conducted by museum scientists and their colleagues in the areas of zoological systematics, paleontology, geology, evolution, and anthropology, and are comprised of the following four titles:

American Museum Novitates, v1 - , 1921 - present Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v.1- , 1907 - present Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, v.1- , 1881 - present Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, v.1-15, 1893 - 1930.

These publications are made available using DSpace, an open source digital repository system. For more information, please visit http://www.dspace.org

This project is the result of close collaboration between the AMNH Library and the AMNH Science Senate and has been completed with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Comments and evaluations are welcome: libref@amnh.org .

Tom Moritz

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Harold Boeschenstein Director, Library Services
American Museum of Natural History
79th ST. at CPW
New York, New York 10024
1 212 769 5417
1 212 769 5009 (FAX)
http:library.amnh.org

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The Access to Knowledge Conference
Recebido por e-mail, BOAI newsletter sexta 05/01/2005

"The goal of this landmark conference is to bring together leading
thinkers and activists on access to knowledge policy from North and
South to generate concrete research agendas and policy solutions
for the next decade. This conference will be among the first to
synthesize the multifaceted and interdisciplinary aspects of access
to knowledge, ranging from textbooks and telecommunications access
to software and medicines."

The Access to Knowledge Conference
April 21-23
Information Society Project
Yale Law School
New Haven, April 21st-23rd 2006
http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/a2k.html

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3rd Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication
Recebido por e-mail, BOAI newsletter sexta 05/01/2005

The Registration to the 3rd Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication,
April 24-25, is now open at http://www.lub.lu.se/ncsc2006/

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Acesso Aberto é uma das prioridades no desenvolvimento da Sociedade da Informacao na Ucrania
- Recomendacoes do Parlamento ucraniano
Recebido por e-mail, BOAI newsletter sexta 02/01/2005

Open access is one of the priorities in developing information society in Ukraine — Recommendations of Ukrainian Parliament

Ukrainian Parliament (Verhovna Rada) passed resolution On Recommendations of Parliamentary hearing on Developing information society in Ukraine (from 01.12.2005 ? 3175-IV) where open access is called one of the priorities in developing information society in Ukraine. In Close 2 Developing informational infrastructure of this Resolution it is recommended for the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to create favorable conditions for developing open access repositories in archives, libraries, museums and other cultural institutions. In Close 5 Creating accessible electronic information resources it is recommended for the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to stir to activities on creating accessible national electronic information resources especially with scientific-technical and economical information; to develop model regulation on repository of electronic documents; and for the Ministry of education and science of Ukraine to speed up development of state program on ICT in educatio! n and science including the close on development of open access resources in science, technology and education with open access condition to state funded researches.

(Ukrainian version of this resolution: http://zakon.rada.gov.ua/cgi-bin/laws/main.cgi?nreg=3175%2D15)

Open Access is also one of the priorities in National strategy on developing information society in Ukraine introduced to Ukrainian Parliament by Parliamentary Committee on Science and Education.
Open Access recommendations in Ukraine where first introduced by the participants of Open Access Scholarly Communication Workshop, February 17-19 2005, organized by International Renaissance Foundation, Open Society Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, International Association of Academies of Sciences and National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy and supported by the British Council Ukraine.

Iryna Kuchma
Social Capital and Academic Publications Program Manager International Renaissance Foundation
phone: (+380) (44) 461-9500
fax: (+380) (44) 486-0166
e-mail: kuchma(a)irf.kiev.ua http://www.irf.kiev.ua/programs/scaap