Peter Baldwin

Athena Unbound

Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780262048002
• ISBN-10: 0262048000
• Artikelnr.: 65344487

Autorenporträt

Peter Baldwin

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Snatching the Good from the Jaws of the Best 1
1 Some Knowledge Wants to Be Free 13
2 The Variety of Authors and Their Content 39
3 The Open-Access Problem 59
4 Information on Wings: The History of Open Access 93
5 The Professoriate and Open Access 139
6 The Digital Disseminators 179
7 Alexandria in the Cloud: Promises and Pitfalls of Global Access 201
8 An Intellectual Aquifer: The Bulletin Board Goes Global 233
9 Finding What We Need: Searching and Filtering 253
10 Too Much Content? 281
Conclusion: Good Enough--Open Access Meets the Real World 307
Acknowledgments 325
Notes 327
Index 397