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Athena unbound : why and how scholarly knowledge should be free for all

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge The MIT Press 2023Description: 405 pISBN:
  • 9780262048002
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Contents:
Introduction: Snatching the Good from the Jaws of the Best -- Some Knowledge Wants to Be Free -- The Variety of Authors and their Content -- The Open Access Problem -- Information on Wings: The History of Open Access -- The Professoriate and Open Access -- The Digital Disseminators -- Alexandria in the Cloud: Promises and Pitfalls of Global Access -- An Intellectual Aquifer: The Bulletin Board Goes Global -- Finding What We Need: Searching and Filtering -- Too Much Content? -- Conclusion: Good Enough: Open Access Meets the Real World.
Summary: "This expansive history of knowledge and its openness makes a strong and nuanced case for opening scholarly knowledge to the public"--
Item type: BOOKS List(s) this item appears in: New Arrivals (06 October 2023)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Snatching the Good from the Jaws of the Best -- Some Knowledge Wants to Be Free -- The Variety of Authors and their Content -- The Open Access Problem -- Information on Wings: The History of Open Access -- The Professoriate and Open Access -- The Digital Disseminators -- Alexandria in the Cloud: Promises and Pitfalls of Global Access -- An Intellectual Aquifer: The Bulletin Board Goes Global -- Finding What We Need: Searching and Filtering -- Too Much Content? -- Conclusion: Good Enough: Open Access Meets the Real World.

"This expansive history of knowledge and its openness makes a strong and nuanced case for opening scholarly knowledge to the public"--

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