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Understanding knowledge as a commons [electronic resource] : from theory to practice / edited by Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom.

Contributor(s): Hess, Charlotte | Ostrom, Elinor | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007Description: xiii, 367 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Knowledge management | Information commonsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 001 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Introduction : an overview of the knowledge commons / Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom -- The growth of the commons paradigm / David Bollier -- A framework for analyzing the knowledge commons / Elinor Ostrom and Charlotte Hess -- Countering enclosure : reclaiming the knowledge commons / Nancy Kranich -- Mertonianism unbound? : imagining free, decentralized access to most cultural and scientific material / James Boyle -- Preserving the knowledge commons / Donald J. Waters -- Creating an intellectual commons through open access / Peter Suber -- How to build a commons : is intellectual property constrictive, facilitating, or irrelevant? / Shubha Ghosh -- Collective action, civic engagement, and the knowledge commons / Peter Levine -- Free/open-source software as a framework for establishing commons in science / Charles M. Schweik -- Scholarly communication and libraries unbound : the opportunity of the commons / Wendy Pradt Lougee -- EconPort : creating and maintaining a knowledge commons / James C. Cox and J. Todd Swarthout.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : an overview of the knowledge commons / Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom -- The growth of the commons paradigm / David Bollier -- A framework for analyzing the knowledge commons / Elinor Ostrom and Charlotte Hess -- Countering enclosure : reclaiming the knowledge commons / Nancy Kranich -- Mertonianism unbound? : imagining free, decentralized access to most cultural and scientific material / James Boyle -- Preserving the knowledge commons / Donald J. Waters -- Creating an intellectual commons through open access / Peter Suber -- How to build a commons : is intellectual property constrictive, facilitating, or irrelevant? / Shubha Ghosh -- Collective action, civic engagement, and the knowledge commons / Peter Levine -- Free/open-source software as a framework for establishing commons in science / Charles M. Schweik -- Scholarly communication and libraries unbound : the opportunity of the commons / Wendy Pradt Lougee -- EconPort : creating and maintaining a knowledge commons / James C. Cox and J. Todd Swarthout.

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