Understanding Knowledge as a Commons From Theory to Practice 1st Edition by Charlotte Hess, Elinor Ostrom 142942107X 9781429421072

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ISBN 10: 142942107X 

ISBN 13: 9781429421072

Author: Charlotte Hess, Elinor Ostrom

Knowledge in digital form offers unprecedented access to information through the Internet but at the same time is subject to ever-greater restrictions through intellectual property legislation, over-patenting, licensing, overpricing, and lack of preservation. Looking at knowledge as a commons, as a shared resource, allows us to understand both its limitless possibilities and what threatens it. Here, experts from a range of disciplines discuss the knowledge commons in the digital era, how to conceptualize it, protect it, and build it. Contributors consider the concept of the commons historically and offer an analytical framework for understanding knowledge as a shared social-ecological system. They look at ways to guard against enclosure of the knowledge commons, considering, among other topics, the role of research libraries, the advantages of making scholarly material available outside the academy, and the problem of disappearing Web pages. They discuss the role of intellectual property in a new knowledge commons, the open access movement (including possible funding models for scholarly publications), the development of associational commons, the application of a free open source framework to scientific knowledge, and the effect on scholarly communication of collaborative communities within academia, and offer a case study of EconPort, an open access, open source digital library for students and researchers in microeconomics. The essays clarify critical issues that arise within these new types of commons, and offer guideposts for future theory and practice–From publisher description

Table of contents:

Introduction : an overview of the knowledge commons / Elinor Ostrom and Charlotte Hess

The growth of the commons paradigm / David Bollier

A framework for analyzing the knowledge commons / Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom

Countering enclosure : reclaiming the knowledge commons / Nancy Kranich

Mertonianism unbound? : imagining free, decentralized access to most cultural and scientific material / James Boyle

Preserving the knowledge commons / Donald J. Waters

Creating an intellectual commons through open access / Peter Suber

How to build a commons : is intellectual property constrictive, facilitating, or irrelevant? / Shubha Ghosh

Collective action, civic engagement, and the knowledge commons /

Peter Levine

Free/open-source software as a framework for establishing commons in science / Charles M. Schweik

Scholarly communication and libraries unbound : the opportunity of the commons / Wendy Pradt Lougee

EconPort : creating and maintaining a knowledge commons / James C. Cox and J. Todd Swarthout

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