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Image via Wikipedia This from Odd News: Harvard University's moves to seek U.S. trademarks for everyday phrases such as "Ask what you can do" are defensive measures, a school official says. What else are they trademarking?  "Lessons Learned" and "Managing Yourself" said the Boston Globe in their August first, 2009 Article.  It also has a pending application for "The world’s thinking." The Boston Globe reports: "Securing each trademark costs from $500 to $1,000 in the United States and thousands more overseas, Calixto said. Legal disputes run up the costs. Harvard pays for the effort with the more than $1 million in royalties it earns each year from licensing its trademarks to such entities as bookstores and mall kiosks selling Harvard apparel; about a third of royalties go toward scholarships, he said." To me, it is interesting, but also disconcerting.  I have a cousin who was in a music program at a public universit...

I'm looking at the policies for Open Access coming down from Universities. ( Add your institution to this growing list which also includes links to those repositories.)  This one from the University of Southern California : "University of California faculty shall routinely grant to The Regents of the University of California a license to place in a non-commercial open-access online repository the faculty member's scholarly work published in a scholarly journal or conference proceedings. In the event a faculty member is required to assign all or a part of his or her copyright rights in such scholarly work to a publisher as part of a publication agreement, the faculty member shall retain in the publication agreement the right to grant the foregoing license to the Regents. Faculty may opt out of this policy for any specific work or invoke a specified delay before such work appears in an open-access repository [in accordance with [an] opt-out mechanism set forth [in the...

I echo Grumpy Old Teacher's sentiments exactly when he says: Again I say, let's get our students (and colleagues) to stop using Google Images, and get some real quality images into their work! Amen to that, grumpy! Suggestions, including one new one: Every Stock Photo -- Free search Engine for stock photos including the ability to critique and share your photos.  What a great idea. (from Grumpy) Flickr Storm - (Also from Grumpy) Creative Commons Search - I've been using the built in creative commons searches in Firefox to find ours. (This is what we use.) What are your places for good, high quality, free photos?