http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/legal/copyright.htm#flickr

Images from the collections of The National Archives posted on Flickr may be downloaded and reused without permission in any format for purposes of research, private study or education (non-commercial use) only.

Images from The National Archives that are part of The Commons on Flickr are labelled “no known copyright restrictions?” indicating that The National Archives is unaware of any current copyright restrictions on these images either because they are Crown Copyright and the copyright is waived or the term of copyright has expired. All of the images may be subject to other third party rights, such as rights of privacy. You are responsible for obtaining other such necessary permissions for reuse.

It is self contradictory to say "no known copyright restrictions" and not to allow commercial re-use. Thus: FEEL FREE TO RE-USE AS YOU LIKE. This and nothing other is the sense of Flickr Commons.

http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5918219

There are now 123 articles by Professor Knoll.

None of the 23 newest articles (at the time of my test there were 100 Knoll articles in DASH) is Open Access in DASH - all are only providing links to the published version: "At the direction of the depositing author this work is not currently accessible through DASH."

There is now an field "Other sources" with links to eventually free online versions. But these links are not complete, see e.g.

http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3190372

With Google Scholar one can find a free version for this article.

It seems that all links I gave for free versions are now added as "other sources" (I didn't check all), including

http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3119240

Let's conclude:

(i) Regarding Open Access to the works of the famous Professor Knoll all other webpages are more important than DASH.

(ii) It is useful that DASH gives hints to free versions elsewhere in the web but most OA advocates would have thought that the core mission of Harvard's repository is another.

(iii) It seems clear that Professor Knoll doesn't like the Harvard FAS OA Policy which is described at
http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/OpenAccess/policytexts.php

"Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Open-Access Policy
voted February 12, 2008

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University is committed to disseminating the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible. In keeping with that commitment, the Faculty adopts the following policy: Each Faculty member grants to the President and Fellows of Harvard College permission to make available his or her scholarly articles and to exercise the copyright in those articles. In legal terms, the permission granted by each Faculty member is a nonexclusive, irrevocable, paid-up, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her scholarly articles, in any medium, and to authorize others to do the same, provided that the articles are not sold for a profit. The policy will apply to all scholarly articles written while the person is a member of the Faculty except for any articles completed before the adoption of this policy and any articles for which the Faculty member entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement before the adoption of this policy. The Dean or the Dean's designate will waive application of the policy for a particular article upon written request by a Faculty member explaining the need."

Did I miss something? It seems that Professor Knoll has received a permanent waiver for all his publications completed after the adoption of the policy.

Now we see that Harvard's OA policy is pure bragging.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/arts/television/16cspan.html

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/

What is C-Span? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-SPAN

Via E-Mail:

I am sorry you had difficulty locating this on our website!

Actually, Digital Library of the Week is not an award; it's a feature
that appears in our electronic weekly newsletter, American Libraries
Direct. Connecticut History Online was featured in our February 24
issue, which you can find at
http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/al_direct/02242010 (scroll down
the right-hand sidebar until you get to a picture of a sailing vessel).

AL Direct has been featuring an editor-selected Digital Library each
week since 2007. You can find a cumulated list of them on the "I Love
Libraries" website at http://www.ilovelibraries.ala.org/diglibweekly/ .

It appears there because until January 2010, we did not have the
capability of putting our e-newsletters on our own website. We do now,
but we are still developing the capability for searching the AL Direct
section.

If you would like to subscribe to the e-newsletter, you can sign up for
free at http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/aldirect .

Thanks for your interest!

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1566148

See here
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/4346892/

http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Skriptorium/Archiv/2009/Juni#Wikisource_als_Open-Access-Repositorium.3F

The Smallbean.org Citizen Archivist Project in Kwala, Tanzania from Smallbean on Vimeo.

This movie summarizes the Smallbean Citizen Archivist Project pilot in Kwala, Tanzania in February, 2010. Smallbean installed a solar-powered technology lab using donated and refurbished electronics. Once the lab was constructed, students learned computer and technology skills while documenting community life in Kwala. Citizen Archivist Project participants collected oral histories, along with accompanying photo and video footage, all of which will be soon viewable in the Smallbean Digital Archive on our website, located at http://www.smallbean.org.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/technology/15fedflix.html?hp

The league plans to upload NARA's collection of 3,000 DVDs in what Mr. Malamud calls an “experiment in crowd-sourced digitization.”

See also
http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/02/international-amateur-scanning.html

On Malamud see our earlier posts:

http://archiv.twoday.net/search?q=malamud

Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, explores how commerce, government, and people battle to determine the historical record, and how we could engineer systems that are more accurate, complete, and contextual.

This lecture was delivered on March 3rd, 2010 as part of Duke University's Provost's Lecture Series.

http://blogs.nybooks.com/post/437005501/britain-the-disgrace-of-the-universities