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Cambridge (Massachusetts)
USA
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ISBN-13
978-0-262-37395-1 (9780262373951)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Peter Baldwin is Professor of History at UCLA, and Global Distinguished Professor at NYU. His recent books are Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History (MIT Press); Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus Was Tackled So Differently across the Globe; and The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle. He serves on the boards of the New York Public Library, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Wikimedia Endowment, the Central European University, the Danish Institute of Advanced Studies, and as chair of the Board of the Center for Jewish History.
Introduction: Snatching the Good from the Jaws of the Best 1
1 Some Knowledge Wants to Be Free 13
2 The Variety of Authors and Their Content 39
3 The Open-Access Problem 59
4 Information on Wings: The History of Open Access 93
5 The Professoriate and Open Access 139
6 The Digital Disseminators 179
7 Alexandria in the Cloud: Promises and Pitfalls of Global Access 201
8 An Intellectual Aquifer: The Bulletin Board Goes Global 233
9 Finding What We Need: Searching and Filtering 253
10 Too Much Content? 281
Conclusion: Good Enough--Open Access Meets the Real World 307
Acknowledgments 325
Notes 327
Index 397
