Understanding knowledge as a commons from theory to practice / [electronic resource] : edited by Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007. - xiii, 367 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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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Knowledge management.
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