Yale launches "Open Access" policy

Yale University has announced open access to online images of millions of objects housed in their museums, archives, and libraries. With their new policy they are also the first Ivy League university to make high quality digital images of their vast cultural heritage collections in the public domain openly and freely available.Yale's collections are among the strongest in depth and breadth of any academic institution in the world.Meg Bellinger, director of the Yale Office of Digital Assets and Infrastructure (ODAI) says that increased access to high-quality content and new linked data technologies will revolutionize the way people search and relate to cultural objects.View a sampling of their collection in this Open Access Slideshow.Source: http://news.yale.edu/2011/05/10/digital-images-yale-s-vast-cultural-collections-now-available-free