Microsoft: OfficeSWORD plugin and beta of research-output repository platform

October 16, 2008

Last week Savas Parastatidis blogged about two repository-related outputs  from Microsoft Research that have just reached beta - one of which, OfficeSWORD, is open source and the other, their research-output repository, is free for non-commercial use.
Please note the following is not based on using these applications, but on what they describe themselves as doing [...]

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Journals and the right choice of words

October 7, 2008

Erik Duval has just blogged about the first issue of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.
His blog post is available at http://erikduval.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/ieee-transactions-on-learning-technologies/
I’m glad to see the launch of a new journal in the field of learning technology and very glad to see that the content is going to be Open Access after a 12 month embargo [...]

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