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020 _a9780262345699
020 _z9780262535014 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 _a(OCoLC)1045087489
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050 0 4 _aZ286.S37
_bS48 2018
082 0 _a070.5
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245 0 0 _aShadow Libraries
_bAccess to Knowledge in Global Higher Education /
_cedited by Joe Karaganis.
264 1 _bInternational Development Research Centre,
264 3 _bProject MUSE,
300 _a1 online resource (pages cm.)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aThe 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.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _aThis 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 to the question of access to knowledge, particularly for students facing financial and other constraints. Open access currently provides a very limited answer to this question, which piracy answers more comprehensively. This edited volume explores how access to knowledge has changed in the past twenty years, as student populations have boomed and as educators and publishers navigated the transition from paper to digital materials. It is concerned primarily with the experience of developing countries, where growing numbers of students, rapid development of Internet and device infrastructures, and high relative inequality have produced the sharpest tensions in the publishing and educational ecosystem.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aEducation, Higher
_zDeveloping countries.
650 0 _aCommunication in learning and scholarship
_xTechnological innovations
_zDeveloping countries.
650 0 _aOpen access publishing
_zDeveloping countries.
650 0 _aPhotocopying
_zDeveloping countries.
650 0 _aCopyright
_xElectronic information resources
_zDeveloping countries.
650 0 _aIntellectual property infringement
_xEconomic aspects
_zDeveloping countries.
650 0 _aPiracy (Copyright)
_zDeveloping countries.
650 0 _aScholarly electronic publishing
_zDeveloping countries.
650 0 _aScholarly publishing
_xEconomic aspects
_zDeveloping countries.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aKaraganis, Joe,
_eeditor.
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/60832/
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