Open Divide

• Titel: Open Divide
• Titelzusatz: critical studies on open access
• Mitwirkende: Herb, Ulrich [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Schöpfel, Joachim [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Ulrich Herb, University and State Library, Saarland University (Germany), Joachim Schöpfel, Departement of Information and Document Sciences, University of Lille (France)
• Verlagsort: Sacramento, CA
• Verlag: Library Juice Press
• Jahr: 2018
• Umfang: 188 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Diagramme
• ISBN: 978-1-63400-029-1
• Schlagwörter: (s)Open Access / (s)Wissenschaftskommunikation / (s)Wissenschaftliche Literatur
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: AK 39950
• K10plus-PPN: 898342066

Abstract

"Provides a critical assessment of the concept and the reality of open access, with a special attention to its impact in the countries of the Global South"--

Abstract

Part one. Global issues -- Openness as tool for acceleration and measurement : reflections on problem representations underpinning open access and open science -- Open access, a new kind of emerging knowledge regime? -- Open/access : negotiations between openness and access to research -- The paradox of success -- Open access and symbolic gift giving -- Cooperative futures : technologies of the common in the collaborative economy -- Part two. North/South -- The contribution of the Global South to open access -- Postcolonial open access -- Open access initiatives and networking in the Global South -- Open science, open access : opportunities for the Global South, or just another Trojan horse from the North? -- A tale of two globes : exploring the North/South divide in engagement with open educational resources -- Ubuntu : a social justice pillar for open access in Sub Saharan Africa -- Asymmetry and inequality as a challenge for open access : an interview