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Research ICT Africa! has recently published a book entitled Towards an African e-Index (available as PDF download.)
[the book..] …documents a research initiative investigating both individual and household ICT access and usage in sub-Sahara Africa.
ICT Africa! encourages others to freely use the publication in their teachings and research by licensing the book under the [...]

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A report published last week by the UK Common Information Environment outlines recommendations on the possible use of Creative Commons licenses in the UK public sector. The report is licensed Attribution 2.0 UK: England & Wales.
I highly recommend this report for anyone thinking of licensing a large quantity of varied materials Creative Commons. It gives [...]

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Actually, Ariadne has some neat stuff. Lots of back articles to search through. This one about metadata ownership & protection is worth a read as well.
Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim and Steve Probets describe how the RoMEO Project is seeking to safeguard freely available metadata disclosed and harvested under the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.
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This month’s issue of Ariadne includes an article about Creative Commons and scholarly communication.
Esther Hoorn considers ways librarians can support scholars in managing the demands of copyright so as to respond to the needs of scholarly communication.
If you’re interested in digital library intiative, you can also check out the UK Electronic Libraries Programme.

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