"OpenCourseWare: An 'MIT Thing'?"

Hal Abelson, “Interview: OpenCourseWare and the Mission of MIT,” Academe, vol. 88, no. 5, September/October 2002, pp. 25+.

David Diamond, “MIT Everyware,” Wired, vol. 11, no. 9, September 2003, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/mit_pr.html]

(accessed April 2006).

Steven R. Lerman and Shigeru Miyagawa, “OpenCourseWare,”

Academe, vol. 88, no. 5, September/October 2002, pp. 23–27.

Anne H. Margulies, “A New Model for Open Sharing: Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s OpenCourseWare Initiative Makes a Difference,” PLoS Biology vol. 2, no. 8, 2004, pp. e200+.

MIT OpenCourseWare Frequently Asked Questions[http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/OCWHelp/help.htm]. An extremely helpful flowchart of the publishing process is located at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/HowTo/content-mit-approach.htm. The MIT OCW site discusses in depth the technologies involved in the entire publishing

process[http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/technology.

htm]. For a list of other OCW projects, see http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/otherocws.htm and http://ocwconsortium.org/about/members/index.html. To read more about the OCW Consortium site, see http://ocwconsortium.org/about/index.html.

“The Spirit of Public Libraries in Free Culture,” Lessig Blog guest post by Sid Srivastava, July 30, 2005 [http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003059.shtml].

Robin Peek, “Giving Away the MIT Store,” Information Today, vol. 20, no. 1, January 2003, p. 11.

William Reilly, Robert Wolfe, and MacKenzie Smith, “MIT’s

CWSpace Project: Packaging Metadata for Archiving Educational Content in DSpace,” International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 6, no. 2, 2006, pp. 139–47.

MacKenzie Smith, et al., “DSpace: An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository,” D-Lib Magazine, vol. 9, no. 1, January 2003 [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/smith/01smith.html].

Charles M. Vest, “Why MIT Decided to Give Away All Its Course Materials via the Internet,” Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 50, no. 21, pp. B20+.

Charles M. Vest, “Igniting an Educational Revolution: MIT OpenCourseWare,” Science Literacy for the Twenty-first Century, edited by Stephanie Pace Marshall, Judith A. Scheppler, and Michael J. Palmisano (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003).

Ann Wolpert, “The Role of the Research University in Strengthening the Intellectual Commons: the OpenCourseWare and DSpace Initiatives at MIT,” The Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain: Proceedings of a Symposium, edited by Julie M. Asanu and P. F. Uhlir (Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2003), pp. 189+.

Jeffrey R. Young, “‘Open Courseware’ Idea Spreads,” Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 51, no. 26, March 4, 2005, pp. A32–A33.