Shadow Libraries Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education / edited by Joe Karaganis.

This collection looks at how university students in Russia, Argentina, South Africa, Poland, Brazil, India, and Uruguay get the books and articles they need for their education. The death of Aaron Swartz and the more recent controversy around the SciHub and Libgen repositories have drawn attention t...

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Online Access: Access E-Book
Access Note:Open Access.
Corporate Author: Project Muse.
Other Authors: Karaganis, Joe (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ottawa, ON : International Development Research Centre, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Russian origins of the online shadow library / Bala⁺ѓzs Bodo⁺ѓ In the shadow of the gigapedia / Bala⁺ѓzs Bodo⁺ѓ Argentina: a student-made ecosystem in an era of state retreat / Evelin Heidel
  • Access to learning resources in post-apartheid South Africa / Eve Gray and Laura Czerniewicz
  • Poland: where the state ends, the hamster begins / Alek Tarkowski and Miroslaw Filiciak
  • India: the knowledge thief / Lawrence Liang
  • Brazil: the copy shop and the cloud / Pedro Mizukami and Jhessica Reia
  • Coda: Uruguay / Jorge Gemetto and Mariana Fossatti.