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Athena unbound : why and how scholarly knowledge should be free for all / Peter Baldwin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baldwin, Peter, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Open access publishing.
- Scholarly electronic publishing.
- Physical Description:
- 405 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "This expansive history of knowledge and its openness makes a strong and nuanced case for opening scholarly knowledge to the public"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Snatching the good from the jaws of the best
- Some knowledge wants to be free
- The variety of authors and their content
- The open-access problem
- Information on wings : the history of open access
- The professoriate and open access
- The digital disseminators
- Alexandria in the cloud : promises and pitfalls of global access
- An intellectual aquifer : the bulletin board goes global
- Finding what we need : searching and filtering
- Too much content?
- Conclusion. Good enough : open access meets the real world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-395) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Baldwin, Peter, 1956- Athena unbound
- ISBN:
- 9780262048002
- 0262048000
- OCLC:
- 1333688465
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