Please join OCLC Research and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries for thoughtful and provocative presentations about how libraries are already getting involved with MOOCs. MOOCs and Libraries: Massive Opportunity or Overwhelming Challenge?.
Today, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released its latest report to the President and Congress, Designing a Digital Future: Federally Funded Research and Development in Networking and Information Technology. The report is a Congressionally mandated assessment of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program, which coordinates the […]
The internet has already had a major impact on how people find and access information, and now the rising popularity of e-books is helping transformAmericans’ reading habits. In this changing landscape, public libraries are trying to adjust their services to these new realities while still serving the needs of patrons who rely on more traditional resources. […]
Welcome to the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). This site aims to give the background to, and rationale for, our vision of building a low cost, sustainable, Open Access future for the humanities. Please feel free to look around the site and get in touch if you’d like to be involved. Open Library of Humanities.
Saturday 23rd February is Open Data Day 2013! Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments. Open Data Day 2013 | Open Knowledge Foundation […]
National Day of Civic Hacking is a national event that will take place June 1-2, 2013, in cities across the nation. The event will bring together citizens, software developers, and entrepreneurs from all over the nation to collaboratively create, build, and invent new solutions using publicly-released data, code and technology to solve challenges relevant to […]
The Department of Media, Film, and Journalism Studies in the Division of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Denver invites applications for a three year lecturer-postdoctoral fellow beginning Fall 2013. Eligible candidates will have received a Ph.D. no earlier than June 2012, and have an expertise in teaching and scholarship in the […]
Description: Media@McGill is a hub of interdisciplinary research, scholarship and public outreach on issues in media, technology and culture, located in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Media@McGill offers Postdoctoral Fellowships to promising scholars engaging in media-related research, as defined in Media@McGill’s mission statement. Postdoc: Media@McGill University […]
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is looking for a full-time legal fellow to join our Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data Project. Fellowship Opportunity: Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data | Berkman Center.
The e-Humanities Group of the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences) is seeking a post-doctoral researcher to work on an EU-funded project ‘Policy Recommendations for Open Access to Research Data in Europe (RECODE)’. Vacancy Post-doc at e-Humanities Group in Amsterdam.
