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Understanding knowledge as a commons : from theory to practice

Title
Understanding knowledge as a commons : from theory to practice / edited by Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Hess, Charlotte.
  • Ostrom, Elinor.
Description
xiii, 367 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Knowledge management
  • Information commons
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction : an overview of the knowledge commons / Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom -- 2. The growth of the commons paradigm / David Bollier -- 3. A framework for analyzing the knowledge commons / Elinor Ostrom and Charlotte Hess -- 4. Countering enclosure : reclaiming the knowledge commons / Nancy Kranich -- 5. Mertonianism unbound? : imagining free, decentralized access to most cultural and scientific material / James Boyle -- 6. Preserving the knowledge commons / Donald J. Waters -- 7. Creating an intellectual commons through open access / Peter Suber -- 8. How to build a commons : is intellectual property constrictive, facilitating, or irrelevant? / Shubha Ghosh -- 9. Collective action, civic engagement, and the knowledge commons / Peter Levine -- 10. Free/open-source software as a framework for establishing commons in science / Charles M. Schweik -- 11. Scholarly communication and libraries unbound : the opportunity of the commons / Wendy Pradt Lougee -- 12. EconPort : creating and maintaining a knowledge commons / James C. Cox and J. Todd Swarthout.
ISBN
  • 0262083574 (hardcover)
  • 9780262083577 (hardcover)
LCCN
2006027385
OCLC
  • OCM71223038
  • 71223038
  • SCSB-5926588
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries