October 31, 2003

Penn State Program to Allow Sharing of Course Materials and Research Data

By SCOTT CARLSON

While most colleges are nursing headaches over file-sharing programs, hoping they will go away, Pennsylvania State University at University Park is actually trying to get a new file-sharing program started.

It's called LionShare, named for the university mascot, and it will be used by professors and researchers to share course materials, data, research, and other scholarly information with their colleagues through the Internet. The university recently received a $1.1-million grant from

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