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Battle for Open:How openness won and why it doesn't feel like victory
With the success of open access publishing, Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education practices, the open approach to education has moved from the periphery to the mainstream. This marks a moment of victory for the open education movement, but at the same time the real battle for the direction of openness begins. As with the green movement, openness now has a market value and is su…
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- 9781909188365
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- x, 232p. : ill.
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- 378.17344678 WEL b
Open access and the humanities :contexts, controversies and the future
If you work in a university, you are almost certain to have heard the term 'open access' in the past couple of years. You may also have heard either that it is the utopian answer to all the problems of research dissemination or perhaps that it marks the beginning of an apocalyptic new era of 'pay-to-say' publishing. In this book, Martin Paul Eve sets out the histories, contexts and controversie…
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- 9781107484016
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- xv, 209p. : ill.
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- 001.30285 EVE o
Shadow libraries :access to educational materials in global higher education
How students get the materials they need as opportunities for higher education expand but funding shrinks.From the top down, Shadow Libraries explores the institutions that shape the provision of educational materials, from the formal sector of universities and publishers to the broadly informal ones organized by faculty, copy shops, student unions, and students themselves. It looks at the hist…
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- 070.5 SHA s
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