BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; } Dear Sylvie, Alan and AoIR (sorry for the curious code at the top of this email - not sure why this occurs), In response to this thread, here's the WUaS Library Resources' wiki subject page at World University and School (WUaS) - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources [1] . WUaS is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW. WUaS plans to facilitate linking all online libraries, especially academic ones, with significant web content (eventually in ALL languages). This may eventually articulate, for example, with the Digital Public Library of America (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/digital_public_library) [2] project, which friends at Harvard and elsewhere are focusing on developing. This doesn't provide access to copyrighted books at present, but the future of this is unclear. With skillful planning, collaboration, and all of us working together, an online, free, university library will emerge here, in the aggregate. World University and School focuses on great universities' open course ware for its academic content, listed here: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings, [3] for example. And the WUaS Subjects' page facilitates open, people-to-people teaching and learning, for example, here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects [4] - all the while developing an academic standard based on MIT OCW, Berkeley Webcast, Yale OYC, etc., eventually for free online degrees. See the FREE Harvard doctoral degree in education on the WUaS Courses' page, for example. World University and School as wiki hopes to open up university discourse, for all. Here's a Facebook group if you're interested in more information - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141 [5] - and wish to collaborate. Best, Scott Scott MacLeod World University and School http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University http://scottmacleod.com [6] On Wed 09/03/11 7:29 AM , Alan Sondheim sondheim@panix.com sent: Or even make papers available for free; some of the cosmologists I read (an area I'm interested in) make their work, even their technical work that's been peer-reviewed, available on their websites. And of course with things like ITunesU and the initiatives from MIT, Stanford, Links: ------ [1] http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources [2] http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/digital_public_library) [3] http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#University_course_listings, [4] http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects [5] http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141 [6] http://scottmacleod.com