SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) announces the Second Annual Sparky Awards, a contest that recognizes the best new short videos on the value of information sharing and aims to broaden the discussion of access to scholarly research by inviting students to express their views creatively.
The 2008 contest theme is [...]
Entries from April 2008
April 30, 2008
“MindMashup”: Call for Entries
April 23, 2008
Living Libraries – a new take on learning
A new library allows readers to borrow people for a 30-minute chat. Here is the experience of one man who offered himself as a human book…troubling the waters of prejudice with face to face conversation.
April 18, 2008
Free Science & Illustrated Words
The Open Science Directory is attempting to bridge the scientific “digital divide” by providing access to a wide range of journals to researchers in both developing and developed countries. On a smaller scale, the Biology Corner offers online labs, worksheets, and “webquests” oriented towards upper level high school students and their teachers. [...]
