Part 1 of the Open and Libraries Presentation Series

1. Ellyssa Kroski

2. What’s the big deal about Open?

4. Over half of all websites worldwide are hosted by the Open-Source Apache Web Server - Netcraft September 2008 Web Server Survey

5. An estimated 29 million people use Linux, an Open Source operating system - Linux Counter (2005)

6. Open Source Software represents a 23% share of the software market in the US and Europe - 2007 Gartner Open Source Summit

7. There are over 135,000 Open Source Software applications available today.

11. The Theory of Relativity is on YouTube

12. The Theory of Evolution is on iTunes

13. 31% of MIT freshmen knew about MIT OCW before applying… – and it was a significant influence in their decision for 35% of them.

16. Wikipedia topped 10 million articles in 2008

17. The National Institute of Health mandated in December 2007 that all funded researchers make their publications openly accessible on the Web.

18. In January 791 universities in 46 European countries unanimously voted for Open Access mandates

19. Harvard faculty unanimously voted in February 2008 to make their scholarly articles openly available to the public online.

23. "Just at the time that technology is enabling all sorts of new creativity, to build on this material and do stuff with it, the law is getting in the way and locking it up." - Lawrence Lessig.