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200 10$aAthena unbound$ewhy and how scholarly knowledge should be free for all$fPeter Baldwin
210  1$aCambridge, Massachusetts$cThe MIT Press$d2023
215   $a405 p
320   $aNotes bibliogr. Index
327   $aIntro -- 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? -- Conclusion: Good Enough-Open Access Meets the Real World -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
330   $aA clear-eyed examination of the open access movement: past history, current conflicts, and future possibilities. 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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