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Few can match the British Government when it comes to belligerent secrecy. Under the shameful Official Secrets Act , not only is practicall...

One of the themes these postings hope to explore is the way in which openness, in all its forms, can function as an antidote to the worst e...

Whatever your views of Dell, it's an important company in the computer world. So the news that it is now installing Firefox as standar...

Michael Eisen , a co-founder of the wonderful Public Library of Science project - a series of journals that make all of their content freel...

So Microsoft is up to its old, foxy tricks. The European Commission is threatening the company with daily fines of "up to" two m...

Tomorrow is the end of an era - though you might be forgiven if you failed to notice. Back in July , IBM announced that it was ending suppo...

If you are interested in the background to the recent ruling against the teaching of Intelligent Design alongside Darwinian evolution in sci...

The news that 12 US universities have adopted a series of guiding principles to facilitate collaborative research on open source software r...

That's the first thought that sprung to my mind when I read that something called rather grandly Digital Universe is to be launched ear...

The BBC has unveiled its long-awaited Open News Archive . Actually, it's made some 80 news reports available - not quite an "open ...

Hitherto, open access has tended to refer to scholarly papers published in journals. This makes the idea of establishing an online "pr...

The news that the Wellcome Trust has reached an agreement with three publishers of scientific journals to allow Wellcome-funded research pub...

As I have written elsewhere , blogging is as old as the Web itself. In fact, as a perceptive comment on that page remarks, the first blog w...

A piece that writes very positively about open access's future quotes a survey from the Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evalua...

Wow. Linus " my name is Linus and I am your god " Torvalds has spoken - and the answer is KDE. If you haven't been following...

For a long time, I have had two great Web hates: pages made up of PDFs and those using Flash animations. I realise now that to these I have...

Hard discs are the real engines of the computer revolution. More than rising processing speeds, it is constantly expanding hard disc capaci...

The wilful misunderstanding of Google Books by traditional publishers is truly sad to see. They continue to propagate the idea that Google...

My heart leapt last week upon seeing the latest issue of Nature magazine. The front cover showed the iconic picture of Watson and Crick, ...

The only suprising thing about Yahoo's acquisition of del.icio.us is that Yahoo got there before Google. The three-way battle between ...

" Open": it's such a small word (and a strange one at that: stare at it long enough and it begins to look like something from ...