The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship

by John Willinsky

Book Overview

An argument for extending the circulation of knowledge with new publishing technologies considers scholarly, economic, philosophical, and practical issues.

Questions about access to scholarship go back farther than recent debates over subscription prices, rights, and electronic archives suggest. The great libraries of the past--from the fabled collection at Alexandria to the early public libraries of nineteenth-century America--stood...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262512661
• ISBN13: 9780262512664
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher