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» Classical MBA - Free lecture notes, articles, and resources pertaining to leveraging Open Source technologies and the classics in business.
» Drafting the Gift Domain - An introduction to IP law as it relates to Open Content (PDF).
» First Monday - Open Content and Value Creation - Article by Magnus Cedergren discusses models involving the driving forces in a theoretical open content value chain.
» Free Curriculum Project - An effort to create a complete K-12 curriculum and set of course materials that are "Free" in the GNU sense.
» Information Research Weblog - A forum to exchange information on publications and websites of potential interest to the readers of the journal, Information Research, an open access, refereed, electronic journal covering the information field generally.
» Linart - The purpose of the Linart project is twofold. First, to advance the use of Linux-based systems and other free, open source software for artists; and second, to define, encourage, and promote free art and a community of those who make it.
» O'Reilly Open Books Project - Read entire books online which were published under various forms of "open" copyright.
» OSCOMAK: Open Source Community On Manufacturing Knowledge - Goal: create a distributed global repository of production knowledge of past, present and future processes, materials, products.
» OpenContent - Reason for being: "facilitate the prolific creation of freely available, high-quality, well-maintained Content." Content = everything but software.
» OpenContentList - Site and mailing list focusing on Open Content projects and ideas, with extensive link list.
» OpenText Project - Mission is to lead the open source content movement in higher education, modeling textbook content after the open source software movement.
» Openlaw - The Berkman Center's open law public forum, an experiment in public, online drafting of legal argument; bringing the concepts of open source to legal argument. Current cases: Open DVD (defending DeCSS and fighting the Digital Millennium Copyright Act); El
» Rice University's Connexions - Article on the first steps of an experimental, open-source/open content project that will "give a learner... free access to educational materials that can be readily manipulated to suit her individual learning style".
» World66 - Free travel guide based on contributed open content.