[Air-L] book announcement

[Scott MacLeod]

Dear Sylvie, Alan and AoIR,

In response to this 'Book' thread, here's the WUaS Library Resources'
wiki subject page at World University and School (WUaS) -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources. 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)
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,
for example. And the WUaS Subjects' page facilitates open,
people-to-people teaching and learning, for example, here -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - 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 -
and wish to collaborate.

Best,
Scott


Scott MacLeod

World University and School
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University


http://scottmacleod.com




On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Tjarda Sixma <sixma.vijselaar at planet.nl> wrote:
> One other issue is that access to (digital) databases is limited to people
> directly associated with Universities.
>
> As soon as I graduated from Utrecht University I lost access to both the
> University library and their online databases. My aim to combine my practise
> as a visual artist with a more theoretical approach to new media was thus
> hard to realise. After a few lectures on several art schools, and one
> published article, I simply had to give up.
>
> Whereas Art Studies in the USA are part of University studies, in the
> Netherlands they are taught at separated (lower level) Art Academies. Thus
> there is little dialogue between both fields.
>
> It would be great if - for a small fee maybe - graduated University students
> would still have access to the digital databases. This would be one little
> step to break open the academic enclave.
>
> I agree with Alan Sondheim that it is utterly frustrating to have to watch
> the dialog occur elsewhere, and not be able to do one's bit.
>
> Best,
> Tjarda
>
>
>>
>>
>> Hi -
>>
>> Want to add my two bits here - that for people like myself, who are not
>> university affiliated, prices like these just keep the books out of our ken
>> altogether. The same goes for conference fees (unless they're waived, which
>> is a rarity), etc. The two tiered system is in place, here and now, and a
>> lot of us are tired of back-peddling to get the latest findings in research,
>> JSTOR, etc. This creates an academic enclave that parallels those described
>> by Davis re: homeowners associations, etc. You pay your dues, literally, or
>> remain ignorant and end up always - always - watching the dialog occur
>> elsewhere.
>>
>> Personally, I'm disgusted by these prices; I wish there were waivers for
>> those of us in the pale, below the poverty line, whatever. A 'Handbook' is
>> supposed to be useful, almost in the sense of fieldwork - but whose field-
>> work?
>>
>> - Alan
>
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