Shadow libraries : access to educational materials in global higher education

Shadow libraries access to educational materials in global higher education

This collection looks at how university students in Russia, Argentina, South Africa, Poland, Brazil, India, and Uruguay get the books and articles they need for their education. The death of Aaron Swartz and the more recent controversy around the SciHub and Libgen repositories have drawn attention t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Karaganis, Joe, editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Ottawa, ON : The MIT Press [2018]
Colección:International Development Research Centre
Materias:
Scholarly publishing > Economic aspects > Developing countries.
Scholarly electronic publishing > Developing countries.
Piracy (Copyright) > Developing countries.
Intellectual property infringement > Economic aspects > Developing countries.
Copyright > Electronic information resources > Developing countries.
Photocopying > Developing countries.
Open access publishing > Developing countries.
Communication in learning and scholarship > Technological innovations > Developing countries.
Education, Higher > Developing countries.
INFORMATION SCIENCE/Library Science
INFORMATION SCIENCE/General
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423006606719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Russian origins of the online shadow library / Balázs Bodó
  • In the shadow of the gigapedia / Balázs Bodó
  • Argentina: a student-made ecosystem in an era of state retreat / Evelin Heidel
  • Access to learning resources in post-apartheid South Africa / Eve Gray and Laura Czerniewicz
  • Poland: where the state ends, the hamster begins / Alek Tarkowski and Miroslaw Filiciak
  • India: the knowledge thief / Lawrence Liang
  • Brazil: the copy shop and the cloud / Pedro Mizukami and Jhessica Reia
  • Coda: Uruguay / Jorge Gemetto and Mariana Fossatti.

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