Athena unbound : why and how scholarly knowledge should be free for all / Peter Baldwin.

By:

Baldwin, Peter, 1956-

Contributor(s):

Ohio Library and Information Network

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]Description: 1 online resource (405 p.)ISBN:

9780262373968
0262373963
9780262373951
0262373955

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

070.5/7973 23/eng/20220628

LOC classification:

Z286.O63

Online resources:

MIT Press (Open Access) Connect to resource

Contents:

Introduction: Snatching the Good from the Jaws of the Best -- 1: Some Knowledge Wants to Be Free -- 2: The Variety of Authors and Their Content -- 3: The Open-Access Problem -- 4: Information on Wings: The History of Open Access -- 5: The Professoriate and Open Access -- 6: The Digital Disseminators -- 7: Alexandria in the Cloud: Promises and Pitfalls of Global Access -- 8: An Intellectual Aquifer: The Bulletin Board Goes Global -- 9: Finding What We Need: Searching and Filtering -- 10: Too Much Content? -- Good Enough—Open Access Meets the Real World.

Summary: Open access (OA) could one day put the sum of human knowledge at our fingertips. But the goal of allowing everyone to read everything faces fierce resistance. In Athena Unbound, Peter Baldwin offers an up-to-date look at the ideals and history behind OA, and unpacks the controversies that arise when the dream of limitless information slams into entrenched interests in favor of the status quo. In addition to providing a clear analysis of the debates, Baldwin focuses on thorny issues such as copyright and ways to pay for “free” knowledge. He also provides a roadmap that would make OA economically viable and, as a result, advance one of humanity's age-old ambitions. Baldwin addresses the arguments in terms of disseminating scientific research, the history of intellectual property and copyright, and the development of the university and research establishment. As he notes, the hard sciences have already created a funding model that increasingly provides open access, but at the cost of crowding out the humanities. Baldwin proposes a new system that would shift costs from consumers to producers and free scholarly knowledge from the paywalls and institutional barriers that keep it from much of the world. Rich in detail and free of jargon, Athena Unbound is an essential primer on the state of the global open access movement.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Elektronička knjiga	Open Acess (Otvoreni pristup)	070.5/7973BALat (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Otvoreni pristup		6170938

Introduction: Snatching the Good from the Jaws of the Best --

1: Some Knowledge Wants to Be Free --
2: The Variety of Authors and Their Content --
3: The Open-Access Problem --
4: Information on Wings: The History of Open Access --
5: The Professoriate and Open Access --

6: The Digital Disseminators --
7: Alexandria in the Cloud: Promises and Pitfalls of Global Access --
8: An Intellectual Aquifer: The Bulletin Board Goes Global --
9: Finding What We Need: Searching and Filtering --
10: Too Much Content? --
Good Enough—Open Access Meets the Real World.

Open Access Electronic Book.

Open access (OA) could one day put the sum of human knowledge at our fingertips. But the goal of allowing everyone to read everything faces fierce resistance. In Athena Unbound, Peter Baldwin offers an up-to-date look at the ideals and history behind OA, and unpacks the controversies that arise when the dream of limitless information slams into entrenched interests in favor of the status quo. In addition to providing a clear analysis of the debates, Baldwin focuses on thorny issues such as copyright and ways to pay for “free” knowledge. He also provides a roadmap that would make OA economically viable and, as a result, advance one of humanity's age-old ambitions.

Baldwin addresses the arguments in terms of disseminating scientific research, the history of intellectual property and copyright, and the development of the university and research establishment. As he notes, the hard sciences have already created a funding model that increasingly provides open access, but at the cost of crowding out the humanities. Baldwin proposes a new system that would shift costs from consumers to producers and free scholarly knowledge from the paywalls and institutional barriers that keep it from much of the world.

Rich in detail and free of jargon, Athena Unbound is an essential primer on the state of the global open access movement.

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