Knowledge Unbound
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Influential writings make the case for open access to research, explore its implications, and document the early struggles and successes of the open access movement. Peter Suber has been a leading advocate for open access since 2001 and has worked full time on issues of open access since 2003. As a professor of philosophy during the early days of the internet, he realized its power and potential as a medium for scholarship. As he writes now, "it was like an asteroid crash, fundamentally changing the environment, challenging dinosaurs to adapt, and challenging all of us to figure out whether we were dinosaurs." When Suber began putting his writings and course materials online for anyone to use for any purpose, he soon experienced the benefits of that wider exposure. In 2001, he started a newsletter—the Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, which later became the SPARC Open Access Newsletter—in which he explored the implications of open access for research and scholarship. This book offers a selection of some of Suber's most significant and influential writings on open access from 2002 to 2010. In these texts, Suber makes the case for open access to research; answers common questions, objections, and misunderstandings; analyzes policy issues; and documents the growth and evolution of open access during its most critical early decade.

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Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780262029902
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Library & Information Science
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction
  5. Knowledge as a Public Good
  6. Open Access, Markets, and Missions
  7. What Is Open Access?
  8. Open Access Overview
  9. Removing the Barriers to Research: An Introduction to Open Access for Librarians
  10. The Taxpayer Argument for Open Access
  11. “It’s the Authors, Stupid!”
  12. Six Things That Researchers Need to Know about Open Access
  13. Trends Favoring Open Access
  14. Gratis and Libre Open Access
  15. More on the Case for Open Access
  16. The Scaling Argument
  17. Problems and Opportunities (Blizzards and Beauty)
  18. Open Access and the Self-Correction of Knowledge
  19. Open Access and the Last-Mile Problem for Knowledge
  20. Delivering Open Access
  21. The Case for OAI in the Age of Google
  22. Good Facts, Bad Predictions
  23. No-Fee Open-Access Journals
  24. Balancing Author and Publisher Rights
  25. Flipping a Journal to Open Access
  26. Society Publishers with Open Access Journals
  27. Ten Challenges for Open-Access Journals
  28. Funder and University Policies
  29. The Final Version of the NIH Public-Access Policy
  30. Another OA Mandate: The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006
  31. Twelve Reminders about FRPAA
  32. An Open Access Mandate for the NIH
  33. The Open Access Mandate at Harvard
  34. A Bill to Overturn the NIH Policy
  35. Open Access Policy Options for Funding Agencies and Universities
  36. Quality and Open Access
  37. Open Access and Quality
  38. Thinking about Prestige, Quality, and Open Access
  39. The Debate
  40. Not Napster for Science
  41. Two Distractions
  42. Praising Progress, Preserving Precision
  43. Who Should Control Access to Research Literature?
  44. Four Analogies to Clean Energy
  45. More on the Landscape of Open Access
  46. Promoting Open Access in the Humanities
  47. Helping Scholars and Helping Libraries
  48. Unbinding Knowledge: A Proposal for Providing Open Access to Past Research Articles, Starting with the Most Important
  49. Open Access to Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
  50. Open Access for Digitization Projects
  51. Bits of the Bigger Picture
  52. Analogies and Precedents for the FOS Revolution
  53. Thoughts on First and Second-Order Scholarly Judgments
  54. Saving the Oodlehood and Shebangity of the Internet
  55. What’s the Ullage of Your Library?
  56. Can Search Tame the Wild Web? Can Open Access Help?
  57. Glossary
  58. Index