Shadow libraries : access to educational materials in global higher education / edited by Joe Karaganis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Karaganis, Joe, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scholarly publishing--Economic aspects--Developing countries.

Scholarly publishing.

Scholarly electronic publishing--Developing countries.

Scholarly electronic publishing.

Piracy (Copyright)--Developing countries.

Piracy (Copyright).

Intellectual property infringement--Economic aspects--Developing countries.

Intellectual property infringement.

Copyright--Electronic information resources--Developing countries.

Copyright.

Photocopying--Developing countries.

Photocopying.

Open access publishing--Developing countries.

Open access publishing.

Communication in learning and scholarship--Technological innovations--Developing countries.

Communication in learning and scholarship.

Education, Higher--Developing countries.

Education, Higher.

Communication in learning and scholarship--Technological innovations.

Copyright--Electronic information resources.

Scholarly publishing--Economic aspects.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

313 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press ; Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, [2018]

Summary:

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 to the question of access to knowledge, particularly for students facing financial and other constraints. Open access currently provides a very limited answer to this question, which piracy answers more comprehensively. This edited volume explores how access to knowledge has changed in the past twenty years, as student populations have boomed and as educators and publishers navigated the transition from paper to digital materials. It is concerned primarily with the experience of developing countries, where growing numbers of students, rapid development of Internet and device infrastructures, and high relative inequality have produced the sharpest tensions in the publishing and educational ecosystem.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262535014

0262535017

OCLC:

1002294853