open access
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Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era
Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era (chapter 2.1): Insights for today from the historical origins of modern copyright
Can we once again find the advantages for learning among the play of scholarly publishing commercial interests, knowing that this…
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Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era
Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era (section 2): Knowledge cultures
The ways in which we think about knowledge itself, and how this shapes our understandings of digital and open transformations…
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Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era
Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era (chapter 1.4): Can open scholarly practices redress injustices in knowledge-making?
Open access infrastructures and practices need to intentionally aim to highlight voices, worldviews and ways of knowledge-making that have been…
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Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era
Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era (chapter 1.3): A locally-driven “library as a publisher” service for Africa
Academic publishing marginalizes research voices from the Global South. In response, a proactive and locally driven "library as a publisher"…
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Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era
Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era (chapter 1.2): Scholarly communications and social justice
Scholarly communications rooted in equity and justice rather than colonization and dominance are critical to an open access movement that…
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Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era
Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era (chapter 1.1): The alienation of African knowledge – open access as a pharmakon
Open access contains a poisonous element for Africa. We can remedy this situation if we adopt cognitive decolonization and redesign…
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Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era
Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era (section 1): Colonial influences
This section reflects upon issues of global inequality and paints a very different picture to the scene with which those…
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Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era
Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era: Introduction
An inflexible historical understanding of open access risks leading us into either overly instrumental conceptions or critiques that foreclose the…
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Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era
Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era: Foreword and series overview
The social, technical, and economic conditions of academic research publication practice make the endeavour of open access far thornier than…
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COVID-19 coronavirus
Science publishing has opened up during the coronavirus pandemic. It won’t be easy to keep it that way
The COVID-19 pandemic has made a compelling case for open access to research knowledge. However, there is still a lack…