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  • Reassembling Scholarly Communications

    Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access

    A range of perspectives on the complex political, philosophical, and pragmatic implications of opening research and scholarship through digital technologies.The Open Access Movement proposes to remove price and permission barriers for accessing peer-reviewed research work--to use the power of the internet to duplicate material at an infinitesimal cost-per-copy. In this volume, contributors show ... Read more

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  • Open Knowledge Institutions

    Reinventing Universities

    The future of the university as an open knowledge institution that institutionalizes diversity and contributes to a common resource of knowledge: a manifesto.In this book, a diverse group of authors—including open access pioneers, science communicators, scholars, researchers, and university administrators—offer a bold proposition: universities should become open knowledge institutions, acting with ... Read more

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  • Is Technology Good for Education?

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    Digital technologies are a key feature of contemporary education. Schools, colleges and universities operate along high-tech lines, while alternate forms of online education have emerged to challenge the dominance of traditional institutions. According to many experts, the rapid digitization of education over the past ten years has undoubtedly been a ‘good thing’.Is Technology Good For Education? ... Read more

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  • Planned Obsolescence

    Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy

    Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013A bold approach to re-envisioning the future of academic publishingAcademic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing at multiple levels: presses are stressed as never before, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and tenure committees are facing a range of new ways of working ... Read more

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  • The Engaged Scholar

    Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today’s World

    Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact. Rigorous analysis of facts, the hard boundary between truth and opinion, and fidelity to reputable sources of factual information are all in alarming decline. A 2018 report published by the RAND Corporation labeled this problem "truth decay" and Andrew J. Hoffman lays the challenge of fixing it at the door of the academy. But, as he ... Read more

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  • Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies

    Caring For (Big) Data?

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Open Access book investigates the methodological and ethical dilemmas involved when working with digital technologies and large-scale datasets in relation to ethnographic studies of digital migration practices and trajectories. Digital technologies reshape not only every phase of the migration process itself (by providing new ways to access, to share and preserve relevant information) but ... Read more

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  • Co-Production and Co-Creation

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