Knowledge Unbound (eBook)

Selected Writings on Open Access, 2002-2011

Peter Suber (Autor)

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2016
456 Seiten
The MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-32955-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Influential writings make the case for open access to research, explore its implications, and document the early struggles and successes of the open access movement. 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, "e;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."e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.4.2016
• Vorwort: Robert Darnton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Kryptologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• ISBN-10: 0-262-32955-7 / 0262329557
• ISBN-13: 978-0-262-32955-2 / 9780262329552