Creative Commons in Action: Dramatic Growth of Open Access in Japanese and Beautiful Butterfly Creative Commons example

[Heather Morrison <heatherm@eln.bc.ca>]

Thanks to SUGITA Shigeki - and Creative Commons - the Dramatic 
Growth of Open Access series is now available in Japanese!  I am 
deeply honoured by this translation, which can be found at: 
http://drf.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/drf/index.php?Foreign%20Documents

In other Creative Commons news:

Thanks to Gaetan Lee, flickr, and Creative Commons, a beautiful 
butterfly from France has alighted on The Imaginary Journal of 
Poetic Economics, to brighten up this otherwise wordy blog, and - 
beautifully - illustrate a lesson on Creative Commons!  That is, 
this beautiful butterfly is only one of close to 200,000 images 
available through a flickr search for the word "flower", limiting 
to Creative Commons-licensed work that is both available for 
commercial use, and modifiable.

There are obvious benefits here, for all - including for-profit 
commercial publishers, to assist with illustrations and 
formatting.

Regrettably, I cannot share the image per se on Liblicense (for 
technical, not licensing reasons), but please have a look at: 
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2008/09/beautiful-butterfly-quick-lesson-on.html

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Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library.

Heather Morrison, MLIS
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com
Forthcoming book:  Scholarly Communications for Librarians, Chandos
Publishing
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