The access principle : the case for open access to research and scholarship / John Willinsky.
"Questions about access to scholarship go back farther than recent debates over subscription prices, rights, and electronic archives suggest. The great libraries of the past - from the fabled collection at Alexandria to the early public libraries of nineteenth-century America - stood as argumen...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Digital libraries and electronic publishing.
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| Summary: | "Questions about access to scholarship go back farther than recent debates over subscription prices, rights, and electronic archives suggest. The great libraries of the past - from the fabled collection at Alexandria to the early public libraries of nineteenth-century America - stood as arguments for increasing access. In The Access Principle, John Willinsky describes the latest chapter in this ongoing story - online open access publishing by scholarly journals - and makes a case for open access as a public good."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 287 pages ; 24 cm. Available also online via the Internet. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-269) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0262232421 9780262232425 9780262512664 0262512661 |