Shadow Libraries : Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education /

Shadow Libraries : Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education /

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This collection looks at how university students in Russia, Argentina, South Africa, Poland, Brazil, India, and Uruguay get the books and articles they need for their education. The death of Aaron Swartz and the more recent controversy around the SciHub and Libgen repositories have drawn attention t...

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Other Authors: Karaganis, Joe (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ottawa, ON : International Development Research Centre, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Textbook.
Publishing.
Public sphere.
Open access.
Library.
Human activities.
Culture.
Copyright infringement.
Copyright.
Book.
Scholarly publishing > Economic aspects.
Scholarly electronic publishing.
Piracy (Copyright)
Photocopying.
Open access publishing.
Education, Higher.
Copyright > Electronic information resources.
Communication in learning and scholarship > Technological innovations.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
Education, Higher > Developing countries.
Communication in learning and scholarship > Technological innovations > Developing countries.
Open access publishing > Developing countries.
Photocopying > Developing countries.
Copyright > Electronic information resources > Developing countries.
Intellectual property infringement > Economic aspects > Developing countries.
Piracy (Copyright) > Developing countries.
Scholarly electronic publishing > Developing countries.
Scholarly publishing > Economic aspects > Developing countries.
Developing countries.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Russian origins of the online shadow library / Balázs Bodó
  • In the shadow of the gigapedia / Balázs Bodó
  • Argentina: a student-made ecosystem in an era of state retreat / Evelin Heidel
  • Access to learning resources in post-apartheid South Africa / Eve Gray and Laura Czerniewicz
  • Poland: where the state ends, the hamster begins / Alek Tarkowski and Miroslaw Filiciak
  • India: the knowledge thief / Lawrence Liang
  • Brazil: the copy shop and the cloud / Pedro Mizukami and Jhessica Reia
  • Coda: Uruguay / Jorge Gemetto and Mariana Fossatti.

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