Analysis & counterpoints
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Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era (chapter 4.1): Libraries, museums, and archives as speculative knowledge infrastructure
From Afrofuturist thinking, five spectra for designing enabling knowledge infrastructure.
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Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era (section 4): Archives and preservation
The fourth section of the series turns its focus to archives and preservation.
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Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era (chapter 3.4): Open access, “publicity,” and democratic knowledge
John Holmwood argues that open access provides data to organizations that wish harm to universities.
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Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era (chapter 3.3): Libraries and their publics in the United States
Librarian and scholar Maura A. Smale argues that libraries should embrace open access for its transformative potential.
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International Open Access Week 2022: Open for Climate Justice
Tackling the climate crisis requires the rapid exchange of knowledge across geographic, economic, and disciplinary boundaries.
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The US has ruled all taxpayer-funded research must be free to read. What’s the benefit of open access?
Lack of free access to research leads to discrimination, both in academia and for us all. This new guidance is…
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In the know: KM4AgD Challenge, UKRI open access policy, Acume, Meet Libby
In the know is a regular roundup of knowledge management (KM) items of interest.
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Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era (chapter 3.2): The political histories of UK public libraries and access to knowledge
History reveals that current debates around open access – and how this should be paid for – are nothing new.
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Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era (chapter 3.1): The Royal Society and the noncommercial circulation of knowledge
The desire to make scholarship widely available and free to read is far longer than we might otherwise presume.
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Open access in sub-Saharan Africa
There are three clear questions practically related to OA in sub-Saharan Africa.
