The classic example is in government - for example GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters, the UK intelligence and security agency), which employs large numbers of library and information professionals. The term features in its current careers information for information specialists, which describes activities as including "
delivering a range of Information Management, Open Source Research and Information Governance services" (see http://www.gchq-careers.co.uk/roles-at-gchq/general/information-specialists/).
Sheila Corrall
On 9 March 2013 21:14, Gretchen Whitney
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Teresa Welsh writes
Open-source was used to mean "freely available"
Open-source means that a piece of software comes with source code. This
allows the purchaser of the software to study how the software works and
to potentially change the way it works. This has nothing whatsover to
do with the software being freely available.
- perhaps a better term would have been "open access".
Yes.
There is still a difference between freely available and open access
but this is more subtle and subject to debate.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
http://authorprofile.org/pkr1
skype: thomaskrichel
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Sheila Corrall
Professor and Chair, Library & Information Science Program
University of Pittsburgh
School of Information Sciences
Information Sciences Building, Room 605C
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Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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