Baldwin, Peter,
Athena unbound : why and how scholarly knowledge should be free for all - Cambridge The MIT Press 2023 - 405 p
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"--
9780262048002
Open access publishing.
Scholarly electronic publishing.
001.9 / BAL
Athena unbound : why and how scholarly knowledge should be free for all - Cambridge The MIT Press 2023 - 405 p
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"--
9780262048002
Open access publishing.
Scholarly electronic publishing.
001.9 / BAL