Free Software Linux

The (open) social calendar is getting full; first the World Day Against Software Patents, and now the Open Access Day: SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and Students for FreeCulture have jointly announced the first international Open Access Day. Building on the worldwide momentum toward Open Access to publicly funded research, Open Access Day will create a key opportunity for the higher education community and the general public to understand more clearly the opportunities of wider access and use of content.

As you may have noticed, debian experimental got firebird2.0 (2.0.4) and firebird2.1 (2.1.0). I would really appreciate if you give these some testing. 2.0.4 is more urgent as this is what I very much want to release with Lenny. 2.1.0 is possible for Lenny too, especially if 2.1.1 comes out soon. Thanks in advance. It is my pleasure to announce the widest [...]

This is something that I've thought a good idea for a while; now, it seems to be taking shape: SPARC Europe (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), a leading organization of European research libraries, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Lund University Libraries today announced the launch of the SPARC Europe Seal for Open Access journals. Growing numbers of peer-reviewed research journals are opening-up their content online, removing access barriers and allowing all interested readers the opportunity of reading the papers online, with over 3300 such journals listed in the DOAJ, hosted by Lund University Libraries in Sweden.