Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors

• Hess, Charlotte.
• Ostrom, Elinor.

Description

xiii, 367 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Knowledge management
• Information commons

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 07-1882

ISBN

• 0262083574 (hardcover)
• 9780262083577

LCCN

2006027385

OCLC

71223038

Title

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

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Added Author

Hess, Charlotte.

Ostrom, Elinor.

Research Call Number

JFE 07-1882