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Make a short video to illustrate the value of illustration sharing, win a Sparky Award and $1000!http://www.sparkyawards.org/Should scientific and scholarly knowledge be accessible to anyone who wants to learn? Is it important for researchers, students, and the public to have access to scholarly literature? Do taxpayers have a right to expect access to the results of the research they paid for? Should technology change the ways students, researchers and scholars work? If you think sharing information and ideas is important, make a video. Win $1000. Be famous. And, win the fabulous Sparky statuette! Mind Mashup is the theme of the 2008 sparky awards. Enter now!Directed byNELSON PAVLOSKYNarrated byARTHUR CHUMusic by Wrong Side of Dawnhttp://wrongsideofdawn.comThanks to the Internet Archive forawesome public domain video!Science footage from Thread Of Life (1960)http://www.archive.org/details/thread_of_lifeTaxes animation from Going Places (1948)http://www.archive.org/details/GoingPla1948Futuristic user interface fromthe reactable music synthesizerhttp://reactable.iua.upf.edu/The Sparky Awards contestis organized bySPARCthe Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources CoalitionCo-sponsors:*Association of College and Research Libraries*Association of Research Libraries*Penn Libraries*Students for Free Culture*The Student PIRGsThis video is licensed under a Creative CommonsAttribution-Noncommercial licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/Some rights reserved

• Release Date

  Jul 3, 2008

• Runtime

  53:58