Athena Unbound Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All

• Main Author: Baldwin, Peter (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2023
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Educational strategies & policy; Copyright law; Open access; science; scholarship; academic knowledge; dissemination of knowledge; peer review; moral rights; networking; collaboration; author's rights; work-for-hire; copyright; Romantic authorship; libraries; serials crisis; article processing charges; controlled digital lending; intellectual property; social media; research and development; privacy; social justice; public domain; postmodernism; version of record; predatory journals
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A 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 Bald...