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TOP STORIES FOR WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2005
Dutch Academics Launch Open-Access Site
Hamlet Database Nears Completion
Google Offers More Direct Searches with Scholar Service
FBI Thwarted Computer Attacks
NCAA Finds Online Course Fraud
DUTCH ACADEMICS LAUNCH OPEN-ACCESS SITE
Dutch academics have publicly announced a Web site that offers free
access to scholarly material from all of the country's universities.
The Digital Academic Repositories (DARE) project, which started a year
ago as a test program, is a joint effort among all Dutch universities,
the National Library of the Netherlands, the Royal Netherlands Academy
of Arts and Sciences, and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
Research. DARE includes 47,000 academic articles and other digital
resources, including bibliographic information, full text materials,
and audio and video files. Organizers of the project said no other
country allows such widespread and easy access to its academic
research. Such open access publishing projects remain anathema to most
commercial publishers, but supporters of open access argue that it is
the appropriate publishing model, given digital technologies and
increasing subscription costs for traditional academic publishing.
The Register, 11 May 2005
http://www.theregister.com/2005/05/11/open_access_research/
HAMLET DATABASE NEARS COMPLETION
An online database that includes all available commentary on
Shakespeare's Hamlet is expected to debut within the next few months.
The database was the brainchild of Bernice W. Kliman, who, in the early
1990s was working on a printed edition of such a collection for the
Modern Language Association. Kliman saw the Internet as a better tool
for such a project, and she raised about $1 million from the National
Endowment for the Humanities for her idea. Over the past 10 years,
scholars including Eric C. Rasmussen, a professor of English at the
University of Nevada at Reno, have been working to gather every bit of
scholarship and criticism ever written about the play and add it to the
database. When the database is complete, users will be "able to see 400
years' worth of commentary" for any single line of the play, according
to Rasmussen. Certain items from critics in the 20th century had to be
left out, however, due to copyright concerns. "We tried to, of course,
credit the edition," said Kliman, "but also just paraphrase rather than
copy sentence by sentence."
Chronicle of Higher Education, 10 May 2005
http://chronicle.com/free/2005/05/2005051001t.htm
GOOGLE OFFERS MORE DIRECT SEARCHES WITH SCHOLAR SERVICE
Computer users at more than 100 colleges and universities can now take
advantage of changes made to the Google Scholar search tool that give
more information about and easier access to available resources. Those
institutions that are participating in the service have given Google
details about which resources they have in their libraries and lists of
online databases for which they have subscriptions. Users indicate
their campus, and search results will direct them to the most direct
means of getting the desired resource. Google said that initially the
service will be free of advertisements, as the company works to build a
base of "happy users." Steven J. Bell, library director at Philadelphia
University, noted that for universities that do not have necessary
database tools, the new service is not an option. Bell also commented
that although the service will be useful for some users, its
limitations, including the resources available in the searches, will be
problematic for other users, especially those with a deep understanding
of a particular discipline.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 11 May 2005
http://chronicle.com/free/2005/05/2005051101t.htm
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FBI THWARTED COMPUTER ATTACKS
An investigation into the theft of part of the operating system
software for Cisco routers has prevented network attacks on government
and university computers, according to the FBI. In May 2004, a hacker
was able to access Cisco's software and reportedly used that
information to compromise networks at several military installations
and at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Computers at
the Argonne National Laboratory, the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center were also
compromised. The FBI said that law enforcement action has apparently
ended the break-ins. As part of the investigation, authorities in
Sweden detained a teenager thought to be involved in the malicious
activity, though it remains unclear whether U.S. authorities will be
able to prosecute that person.
Wall Street Journal, 11 May 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111569768679229042,00.html
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NCAA FINDS ONLINE COURSE FRAUD
An investigation of student athletes at Nicholls State University in
Louisiana has revealed that students and university staff had engaged
in "gross academic fraud" by fraudulently completing online courses to
preserve the students' eligibility for sports. The university's
registrar discovered the fraud after noticing that many student
athletes were completing online courses from Brigham Young University
(BYU), often with much higher grades than for classes they took at
Nicholls. As it turned out, two coaches and an academic adviser were
giving students answers for the courses and in some cases serving as
proctors for the students' tests. The National Collegiate Athletic
Association (NCAA) confirmed the fraud and imposed penalties on the
school's athletic programs, but the episode has raised a red flag
about the potential for similar abuse of online programs. "There
appeared generally not to be sufficient monitoring either by BYU or ...
by Nicholls State," according to Josephine Potuto, member of the NCAA
panel that conducted the investigation. A statement from the panel
noted, "This case illustrates the ease with which individuals can
manipulate and then breach security protocols for online correspondence
courses."
Inside Higher Ed, 11 May 2005
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/05/11/nicholls
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