Access to academic research and publications for all those without university library accounts. Full text articles from a fairly useful selection of journals. Not as good as doing research in the biomedical library at UCLA or Dartmouth, but...it allows
BRII – Berkeley Research Impact Initiative
co-sponsored by UC Berkeley's Vice Chancellor for Research and the University Librarian
BRII home
New Program Announcement (PDF)
Program Description
Frequently Asked Questions
Instructions for Application and Reimbursement
UCB Scholarly Communication website
Contact Us
Frequently Asked Questions
What is BRII?
The Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) supports faculty members who want to make their journal articles free to all readers immediately upon publication. An 18-month pilot program, BRII will subsidize, in various degrees, fees charged to authors who select open access or paid access publication. The pilot will also yield data that can be used to gauge faculty interest in — as well as the budgetary impacts of — these new modes of scholarly communication on the Berkeley campus.
we're informing libraries about the benefits of open source, enabling them to make choices about how best to provide their communities and staff with better technology services. We enable libraries to use open-source software to its full potential by providing outstanding commercial support services - hosting, migration assistance, staff training, support, software maintenance, and development – solutions tailored to each customer's needs.
Use of open source not only lowers the per-library cost of running software, it also empowers libraries with a higher level of control over customization and the overall direction of software development.
No apology for Wikipedia, either. For the vindication of Wikipedia as an academic source, Harvard University Library [a lead partner in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Project] has expanded Wikipedia’s works on books to over 60,000 [Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory, ShelfLife Collaborative, Librarycloud Demo]:
... two-way integration with Wikipedia,... is ... an example of how DPLA can weave itself into the knowledge ecosystem of the Web. If an item has a Wikipedia page, we let you see all the other items categorized with it at Wikipedia.
We're proud of this; it took considerable effort and ingenuity.
…
If the DPLA collection doesn't contain that work, we put the work's Wikipedia page on the shelf.
[see “How did you do the integration with Wikipedia?” on the FAQ page]
Open Source Discovery Portal Camp
Join the development teams from VuFind and Blacklight at PALINET, November 6, 2008, for day of discussion and sharing. We hope to examine difficult issues in developing discovery systems, such as:
*
ILS Connectivity
*
Authority Control
*
Data Importing
*
User Interface Issues
*
Federated Search
*
Virtual shelf list
*
De-dupping
*
Usage Recording and Reporting
Implementing or hacking an Open Source discovery system such as VuFind or Blacklight?
Interested in learning more about Lucene/Solr applications?
Join the development teams from VuFind and Blacklight at PALINET, November 6, 2008, for day of discussion and sharing. We hope to examine difficult issues in developing discovery systems, such as:
*
ILS Connectivity
*
Authority Control
*
Data Importing
*
User Interface Issues
*
Federated Search
*
Virtual shelf list
*
De-dupping
*
Usage Recording and Reporting
All Open Library contributions are in the public domain. Open Library doesn't assert any copyright or other proprietary rights over any of the material in the Open Library database. Furthermore, most of the material in Open Library cannot be copyrighted as it consists only of facts which are not copyrightable in the US (see Feist v. Rural Telephone Service).
Our records come many sources. Many of them come from the Library of Congress which, as a US Government work, is also in the public domain.
TG-Gallium3D is a hardware- and API- neutral intermediate format that will allow Tungsten Graphics to efficiently build graphics drivers to support a variety of hardware platforms for modern 3D APIs on various OS environments.