Athena unbound why and how scholarly knowledge should be free for all
A clear-eyed examination of the open access movement: past history, current conflicts, and future possibilities. Open access (OA) could one day put the sum of human knowledge at our fingertips. But the goal of allowing everyone to read everything faces fierce resistance. In Athena Unbound, Peter Bal...
| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
The MIT Press
2023
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009762681906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction: Snatching the Good from the Jaws of the Best
- 1 Some Knowledge Wants to Be Free
- 2 The Variety of Authors and Their Content
- 3 The Open-Access Problem
- 4 Information on Wings: The History of Open Access
- 5 The Professoriate and Open Access
- 6 The Digital Disseminators
- 7 Alexandria in the Cloud: Promises and Pitfalls of Global Access
- 8 An Intellectual Aquifer: The Bulletin Board Goes Global
- 9 Finding What We Need: Searching and Filtering
- 10 Too Much Content?
- Conclusion: Good Enough-Open Access Meets the Real World
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.
