Knowledge unbound : selected writings on open access, 2002-2011 / Peter Suber ; foreword by Robert Darnton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suber, Peter, author.

Contributor:

Darnton, Robert, writer of foreword.

SPARC (Organization), issuing body.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Open access publishing.

Communication in learning and scholarship--Technological innovations.

Communication in learning and scholarship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 436 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Peter Suber has been a leading advocate for open access since 2001 and has worked full time on issues of open access since 2003. As a professor of philosophy during the early days of the internet, he realized its power and potential as a medium for scholarship. As he writes now, "it was like an asteroid crash, fundamentally changing the environment, challenging dinosaurs to adapt, and challenging all of us to figure out whether we were dinosaurs." When Suber began putting his writings and course materials online for anyone to use for any purpose, he soon experienced the benefits of that wider exposure. In 2001, he started a newsletter -- the Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, which later became the SPARC Open Access Newsletter -- in which he explored the implications of open access for research and scholarship. This book offers a selection of some of Suber's most significant and influential writings on open access from 2002 to 2010. In these texts, Suber makes the case for open access to research; answers common questions, objections, and misunderstandings; analyzes policy issues; and documents the growth and evolution of open access during its most critical early decade.

Contents:

What Is Open Access? 23

Open Access Overview (2004) 25

Removing the Barriers to Research: An Introduction to Open Access for Librarians (2003) 43

The Taxpayer Argument for Open Access (2003) 51 "It's the Authors, Stupid!" (2004) 59

Six Things That Researchers Need to Know about Open Access (2006) 65

Trends Favoring Open Access (2007) 71

Gratis and Libre Open Access (2008) 83

More on the Case for Open Access 91

The Scaling Argument (2004) 93

Problems and Opportunities (Blizzards and Beauty) (2007) 95

Open Access and the Self-Correction of Knowledge (2008) 99

Open Access and the Last-Mile Problem for Knowledge (2008) 107

Delivering Open Access 115

The Case for OAI in the Age of Google (2004) 117

Good Facts, Bad Predictions (2006) 123

No-Fee Open-Access Journals (2006) 133

Balancing Author and Publisher Rights (2007) 141

Flipping a Journal to Open Access (2007) 149

Society Publishers with Open Access Journals (2007) 159

Ten Challenges for Open-Access Journals (2009) 167

Funder and University Policies 189

The Final Version of the NIH Public-Access Policy (2005) 191

Another OA Mandate: The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 (2006) 201

Twelve Reminders about FRPAA (2007) 205

An Open Access Mandate for the NIH (2008) 209

The Open Access Mandate at Harvard (2008) 213

A Bill to Overturn the NIH Policy (2008) 227

Open Access Policy Options for Funding Agencies and Universities (2009) 247

Quality and Open Access 269

Open Access and Quality (2006) 271

Thinking about Prestige, Quality, and Open Access (2008) 283

The Debate 301

Not Napster for Science (2003) 303

Two Distractions (2004) 307

Praising Progress, Preserving Precision (2004) 311

Who Should Control Access to Research literature? (2004) 317

Four Analogies to Clean Energy (2010) 319

More on the Landscape of Open Access 329

Promoting Open Access in the Humanities (2005) 331

Helping Scholars and Helping Libraries (2005) 341

Unbinding Knowledge: A Proposal for Providing Open Access to Past Research Articles, Starting with the Most Important (2006) 345

Open Access to Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2006) 357

Open Access for Digitization Projects (2011) 371

Bits of the Bigger Picture 393

Analogies and Precedents for the FOS Revolution (2002) 395

Thoughts on First and Second-Order Scholarly Judgments (2002) 399

Saving the Oodlehood and Shebangity of the Internet (2003) 403

What's the Ullage of Your Library? (2004) 407

Can Search Tame the Wild Web? Can Open Access Help? (2005) 409.

Notes:

Selection of writings, mostly from the author's SPARC open access newsletter.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262029902

0262029901

9780262528498

0262528495

9780262329552

0262329557

OCLC:

947116245

Publisher Number:

9780262329552

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access