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Digital commons
The digital commons refers to shared digital resources—such as software, knowledge, data, and cultural content—that are collectively produced and governed by a community and intended for public use.[1][2] These commons are distinguished by open access, participatory management, and licensing practices that preserve reuse and redistribution. Digital commons play a vital role in areas such as education, research, software development, and civic engagement.
Local Power: Shifting Power at the Local Level - Candidate School
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Library Guides: Accessibility Toolkit for Open Educational Resources (OER): Home
Accessibility guide for creating OER
OME Project — open-metadata-exchange documentation
OME enables open educational resources to create, publish, and update their metadata on a peer-to-peer network. By solving authoring, publishing, and discovery issues, this network will provide broad visibility to current islands of OER information.
10 Tips from GetUp's Decade of Campaigning
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MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials
MIT OpenCourseWare is a web based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity
Winning The Next Climate Fight
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Is Digital Campaigning Dead?
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Reinventing Commons Governance in Modern Times | David Bollier
I gave the following remarks about commons governance on September 27 as part of the U!REKA Lab Lecture Series. U!REKA -- which stands for Urban Research and Education Knowledge Alliance -- is a consortium of eight European universities that studies urban commons. The subtitle of my talk was "Find Answers by Living the Questions."
Elections and Activism: Campaign Skills
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Deep Roots, Real Power: Candid Stories from the Field
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Building Bridges for Data Science Education
As part of the Digital Library's transition to Open Access, new features for researchers are available in the Premium Edition. Click here to learn more.
New to the Commons? | David Bollier
If you’re coming to the commons for the first time, it can be difficult to grok the idea because there are so many different ways to understand the commons. That’s because the commons is not so much a fixed, universal thing as a general concept describing durable, dynamic sets of social relationships for managing resources -- all sorts of resources: digital, urban, natural, indigenous, rural, cultural, scientific, to use some crude categories.
LibGuides: Open Access Publishing : OA Journals, Books and Repositories
This guide provides guidance in open access scholarly publishing for researchers in all disciplines.
Together for Treaty
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