Grants.gov. Grants.govhttp://www.grants.gov/ [Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker] this is handy

U.S. Prisons and Mental Illness. Prisons have become America's default mental health system. According to a new study by Human Rights Watch, between two and three hundred thousand men and women in U.S. prisons are seriously mentally ill, about three times more than the number of mentally ill who are in mental hospitals. [Via TalkLeft.] […]

Crisis and opportunities in scholarly publishing. The 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies took place in Philadelphia, May 9-10, 2003. The presentations from the one public session, Crises and Opportunities: the Futures of Scholarly Publishing, are now online. See the separate pages by Carlos Alonso, Cathy Davidson, John Unsworth, and Lynne […]

Computers don't do good security screening. It's a recurring fantasy: if we could compile a nice database of information on people and then load it into a computer we could set the computer on “autopilot” and it would tell us which people to watch out for…. [Ernie The Attorney]

Preliminary speed of the G5 cluster: 7.41 teraflop/s. I updated my story about the G5 cluster at Virginia with preliminary benchmark results. The R_max figure of 7.41 teraflop/s would put this supercluster to position 4 in the top-500 list of supercomputers. Not bad at all. [Universal Rule] ——- it seems pretty slow to me, i […]

UNESCO statement on universal access to information. On October 14, a UNESCO Ministerial Round Table Meeting (Paris, October 9-10) issued communiqué, Towards Knowledge Societies. The communiqué ranks “universal access to information and knowledge” on a par with “freedom of expression” as a priority for the world community. Excerpt: “No society can claim to be a […]

Which Dr. Seuss character are you? brought to you by Quizilla —— this is one i like

Australian report endorses open access archives. John Houghton, Colin Steele, and Margaret Henty, Changing Research Practices in the Digital Information and Communication Environment, Department of Education, Science and Training, Commonwealth of Australia, August 2003. Excerpt: “We find that there is a new mode of knowledge production emerging, changing research practices and bringing new information access […]

Free Culture!. I helped put together the new Creative Commons CD featuring all sorts of great licensed music, and it's all available for download. Now that the pool of CC-licensed music has grown, we had a great deal of choices and as a result there are all sorts of songs in the mix. I've been […]

Guide to Institutional Repository Software. http://www.soros.org/openaccess/software/ Really helpful report from George Soros' Open Society Institute that looks at the currently available open source institutional repository systems that comply with the Open Archives Initiative metadata harvesting protocols. (Note these aren't 'learning object' repositories per se – these are typically more focused on archiving scholarly publishing and […]