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Comment by Dave Takaki on February 10, 2010 at 5:46am

This is extracted from Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons

Creative Commons is an initiative I became aware of when doing research in the web environment on SSL, secure socket layers (Transport Layer Security). The Creative Commons Initiative is a reflection of a broader ‘Open Source’ movement.


Creative Commons
Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.[1] The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses for free to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. An easy to understand one-page explanation of rights, with associated visual symbols, explains the specifics of each Creative Commons License. This simplicity distinguishes Creative Commons from an all rights reserved copyright. Creative Commons was invented to create a more flexible copyright model, replacing "all rights reserved" with "some rights reserved." Wikipedia is one of the notable web-based projects using one of its licenses.

The organization was founded in 2001 by Larry Lessig, Hal Abelson and Eric Eldred[2] with support of the Center for the Public Domain. The first set of copyright licenses were released in December 2002.[3] In 2008 there were an estimated 130 million works licensed under Creative Commons.[4] Creative Commons is governed by a board of directors and a technical advisory board. Esther Wojcicki, journalism teacher from Palo Alto, CA, is currently the chair of the board. Creative Commons has been embraced by many as a way for content creators to take control of how they choose to share their intellectual property. There has also been criticism that it doesn't go far enough.

Creative Commons has been described as being at the forefront of the copyleft movement, which seeks to support the building of a richer public domain by providing an alternative to the automatic "all rights reserved" copyright, dubbed "some rights reserved."[5] David Berry and Giles Moss have credited Creative Commons with generating interest in the issue of intellectual property and contributing to the re-thinking of the role of the "commons" in the "information age". Beyond that, Creative Commons has provided "institutional, practical and legal support for individuals and groups wishing to experiment and communicate with culture more freely."[6]

Creative Commons works to counter what the organization considers to be a dominant and increasingly restrictive permission culture. According to Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, it is "a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past".[7] Lessig maintains that modern culture is dominated by traditional content distributors in order to maintain and strengthen their monopolies on cultural products such as popular music and popular cinema, and that Creative Commons can provide alternatives to these restrictions.[8][9]

Types of Creative Commons licenses

There are six major licenses of the Creative Commons:[12]

* Attribution (CC-BY)
* Attribution Share Alike (CC-BY-SA)
* Attribution No Derivatives (CC-BY-ND)
* Attribution Non-Commercial (CC-BY-NC)
* Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (CC-BY-NC-SA)
* Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)

There are four major conditions of the Creative Commons: Attribution (BY), requiring attribution to the original author; Share Alike (SA), allowing derivative works under the same or a similar license (later or jurisdiction version); Non-Commercial (NC), requiring the work is not used for commercial purposes; and No Derivative Works (ND), allowing only the original work, without derivatives.[12]

As of the current versions, all Creative Commons licenses allow the "core right" to redistribute a work for non-commercial purposes without modification. The NC and ND options will make a work non-free.

Additional options include the CC0 option, or "No Right Reserved."[13] For software, Creative Commons has three available licenses: the BSD License, the CC GNU LGPL license, and the CC GNU GPL.[14][15]

Comment by Benny Ron on December 16, 2009 at 5:42pm

Free Book of Abstracts from Aquaculture America 2009
AA2009abstracts.pdf

Comment by Benny Ron on November 24, 2009 at 8:41am

UH Voyager Library System Outage starting 4 p.m. tomorrow

from UH Library Services Office
to announce@hawaii.edu
date Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:00 AM
subject UH Voyager Library System Outage starting 4 p.m. tomorrow
mailed-by lst01.its.hawaii.edu

hide details 6:00 AM (2 hours ago)

Due to a fumigation project affecting Sinclair Library on the UH Manoa campus, we will be shutting down the UH Voyager library servers after 4 p.m. on Wednesday, November 25 (Thanksgiving Eve). When this occurs, all connections to the UH Library online catalog will be down.

After getting the all clear from the fumigation company, we may be able to bring the library servers back up by the evening of November 27, at the earliest.

We will try to keep the proxy server that handles electronic resources for libraries outside of the UH Manoa campus up and running during the outage.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Comment by Benny Ron on October 8, 2009 at 6:48pm

I recently received the following message:
"Re: Open Access of "The Israeli Journal of Aquaculture – Bamidgeh
Dear Dan Mires, Editor of the Israeli Journal of Aquaculture - Bamidgeh
Let me introduce myself. I am Dr. R. K. Upadhyay, working in Central Institute of Fisheries Education (Indian Council of Agricultural Research) Deemed University, located at Mumbai India. Our main job is research, imparting training in freshwater aquaculture and Extension. I would like to thank you for your message concerning your Open Access project, congratulate your team members and wish you success.

Dr Upadhyay and other scientists from India."

I authorize you to publish this comment in Facebook and other Internet sites.

Dr. Upadhyay

Comment by Dave Takaki on October 6, 2009 at 9:53pm

Directory of Open Access Journals.html

Comment by Benny Ron on October 5, 2009 at 9:23am

Comment by Dave Takaki:

Delete Comment I think peer review journals will continue much as they have, and that the "open community" and the worries of "scientific wild assed guessing" creeping in under the door will provide venues for the intuition part of serious research. A recent essay in Seed was also somewhat sanguine on this topic.

As to the business end of publishing, things are certainly in a transitional phase. Traditional links in publishing's trophic system are unraveling. I work in publishing, and things are definitely changing...

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Comment by Michael Haring:

I think the writing is on the wall (this one!) if you are looking at a long term solution. Here in Hawaii educators are being faced with reduced salaries, furloughs, budget restraints, etc. We are faced with the inevitability of open access to materials for effective use and availability in an online format. Now, how will the scientific communities approach this, and how will "respected" journals respond to this need? Probably not without much foresight for those applying the knowledge in the trenches! $$$ and status are big stones, but stones can be moved and paradigms do shift.

Comment by Dave Takaki on October 5, 2009 at 9:06am

Following are 12 Open Access Journals that are related to Aquaculture and fisheries. The homepage is Directory of Open Access Journals and the location isdoaj?func=home


Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria
ISSN: 01371592
EISSN: 17341515
Subject: Aquaculture and Fisheries
Publisher: Akademii Rolniczej w Szczecinie
Country: Poland
Language: English
Keywords: ichthyology, fisheries, fish diseases, parasitology, aquaculture nutrition, seafood science
Start year: 1970

Aquaculture, Aquarium, Conservation & Legislation
ISSN: 18448143
EISSN: 18449166
Subject: Aquaculture and Fisheries
Publisher: Bioflux
Country: Romania
Language: English
Keywords: aquaculture, aquarium, conservation, legislation, ecology
Start year: 2008

AquaTIC
ISSN: 15784541
Subject: Aquaculture and Fisheries
Publisher: Universidad de Zaragoza
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Keywords: aquaculture
Start year: 2004

Brazilian Journal of Aquatic Science and Technology
ISSN: 18087035
Subject: Oceanography --- Aquaculture and Fisheries
Publisher: Universidade do Vale do Itajaí
Country: Brazil
Language: Portuguese, English
Keywords: oceanography, limnology, pollution, fishing administration, engineering
Start year: 1998
License:

Fishery bulletin.
ISSN: 00900656
Subject: Aquaculture and Fisheries
Publisher: Governmental Fisheries Science Publications
Country: United States
Language: English
Keywords: fisheries, aquaculture, agriculture
Start year: 1999

Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fishery Science
ISSN: 02506408
EISSN: 18131859
Subject: Aquaculture and Fisheries
Publisher: Northwest Atlantic Fishery Organization
Country: Canada
Language: English
Keywords: fisheries, oceanography, northwest atlantic
Start year: 2004

Marine and Coastal Fisheries : Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science
ISSN: 19425120
Subject: Aquaculture and Fisheries
Publisher: American Fisheries Society
Country: United States
Language: English
Keywords: fishing, estuarine fisheries, aquatic ecosystems
Start year: 2009

Naga: The WorldFish Center Quarterly
ISSN: 0116290X
EISSN: 15118533
Subject: Aquaculture and Fisheries
Publisher: WorldFish Center
Country: Malaysia
Language: English
Keywords: fisheries, aquatic sciences
Start year: 2000

Open Fish Science Journal
ISSN: 1874401X
Subject: Aquaculture and Fisheries
Publisher: Bentham open
Country: United States
Language: English
Keywords: fisheries research
Start year: 2008

Scientia Marina
ISSN: 02148358
EISSN: 18868134
Subject: Oceanography --- Aquaculture and Fisheries
Publisher: Institut de Ciències del Mar de Barcelona, CSIC
Country: Spain
Language: English
Keywords: marine biology, marine ecology, marine geology, oceanography, fisheries
Start year: 1989

Smithiana Bulletin
ISSN: 16844130
Subject: Aquaculture and Fisheries --- Biology --- Ecology
Publisher: The South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
Country: South Africa
Language: English
Keywords: ecology, biology, aquaculture
Start year: 2003

Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
ISSN: 13032712
Subject: Aquaculture and Fisheries
Publisher: Central Fisheries Research Institute, Trabzon, Turkey and Japan International Cooperation Agency
Country: Turkey
Language: English
Keywords: fisheries, aquatic sciences
Start year: 2001

Comment by Benny Ron on September 29, 2009 at 10:20pm

Dear Editor,

Thanks for your announcement. In fact we value Bamidgeh immensely and it is
really an good News for all of us that the Journal will be made available
freely.

Congratulations to you and the "The Israeli Journal of Aquaculture -
Bamidgeh" team and a lot of thanks and appreciation.

Best regards.

Dilip Kumar

Comment by Benny Ron on September 21, 2009 at 7:48am

To Dan Mires:

Dear Dan Mires
Editor
The Israeli Journal of Aquaculture - Bamidgeh
I wish you a grand success for the newly coming journal The Israeli Journal of Aquaculture under your Editorial Management and I will send my article in a week for publication. I will send my biodata for your perusal if you need my services either for editorial board or any other works I am happy to extend. I will be in touch with you for all academic and research activities.
Thanking you
Prof.M.Bhaskar
Co-ordinator
M.Sc., Animal Biotechnology
Dept.of Zoology
S.V.University
TIRUPATI-517502, A.P.