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:

1 online resource (313 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

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

System Details:

text file

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:

1 Introduction: Access from Above, Access from Below / Joe Karaganis Karaganis, Joe 1

2 The Genesis of Library Genesis: The Birth of a Global Scholarly Shadow Library / Balázs Bodó Bodó, Balázs 25

3 Library Genesis in Numbers: Mapping the Underground Flow of Knowledge / Balázs Bodó Bodó, Balázs 53

4 Argentina: A Student-Made Ecosystem in an Era of State Retreat / Evelin Heidel Heidel, Evelin 79

5 Access to Learning Resources in Post-apartheid South Africa / Eve Gray Gray, Eve, Laura Czerniewicz Czerniewicz, Laura 107

6 Poland: Where the State Ends, the Hamster Begins / Miroslaw Filiciak Filiciak, Miroslaw, Alek Tarkowski Tarkowski, Alek 159

7 India: The Knowledge Thief / Lawrence Liang Liang, Lawrence 183

8 Brazil: The Copy Shop and the Cloud / Pedro Mizukami Mizukami, Pedro, Jhessica Reia Reia, Jhessica 233

9 Coda: Uruguay / Jorge Gemetto Gemetto, Jorge, Mariana Fossatti Fossatti, Mariana 273.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262345699

0262345692

OCLC:

1033673589

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access