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Title Shadow libraries : access to knowledge in global higher education / Joe Karaganis, editor.

Publication Info. Cambridge : MIT Press, 2018.
Ottawa, ON, CA : International Development Research Centre, 2018.
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (321 pages) : illustrations
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The Russian origins of the online shadow library / Balázs Bodó -- In the shadow of the gigapedia / Balázs Bodó -- Argentina: a student-made ecosystem in an era of state retreat / Evelin Heidel -- Access to learning resources in post-apartheid South Africa / Eve Gray and Laura Czerniewicz -- Poland: where the state ends, the hamster begins / Alek Tarkowski and Miroslaw Filiciak -- India: the knowledge thief / Lawrence Liang -- Brazil: the copy shop and the cloud / Pedro Mizukami and Jhessica Reia -- Coda: Uruguay / Jorge Gemetto and Mariana Fossatti.
Intro; Contents; 1 Introduction: Access from Above, Access from Below; Piracy; The Common Thread; The Higher Education Boom and State Retreat; Access from Below; Conflict; Universities; Change; Policy; The Country Studies; Notes; References; 2 The Genesis of Library Genesis: The Birth of a Global Scholarly Shadow Library; (Pirate) Libraries on the Internet; Library Genesis; The Communist Ideal of the Reading Nation; Censorship; The Soviet and Post-Soviet Literary and Scientific Underground; The Emergence of Do-It-Yourself Digital Libraries in RuNet; Maxim Moshkov and lib.ru.
Toward a Million-Book Scientific LibraryCopyright and "Copynorms" in Russian Pirate Librarianship; The Co-development of Copynorms and Copyright Laws in the Post-Soviet Era; Formalization of the IP Regime in the 2000s; Closure of the Legal Regime; Notes; References; 3 Library Genesis in Numbers: Mapping the Underground Flow of Knowledge; The Supply of Documents in Library Genesis; Preexisting Collections; Linguistic and Thematic Expansion of Library Genesis; Publishers; The Age of Works in Library Genesis; The Legal Supply of Works in Library Genesis; The Demand Side; Demand by Country.
Country-Level Knowledge DietsConclusion; Notes; References; 4 Argentina: A Student-Made Ecosystem in an Era of State Retreat; Eudeba: The University Press as Democratizer of Knowledge; From Public to Private: El Centro Editor de América Latina; How Students Survived Changes in the Ecosystem; The Losing Battle against Copying; Toward Online Digital Libraries; BiblioFyL; Notice and Takedown; Reintermediation; Notes; References; 5 Access to Learning Resources in Post-apartheid South Africa; Eve Gray and Laura Czerniewicz; Higher Education under Apartheid.
Student Resistance and the Publishing UndergroundThe Anti-apartheid Academic Boycott and the Rise of a Copying Culture; Post-apartheid Higher Education Policy; The Right of Access to a Locally Relevant Education: Aspirations and Realities; National Education Policy-A Divided Agenda; Completion Rates; The Academic Publishing Sector in a Period of Change; Post-apartheid Market Consolidation; The Demise of the Radical Publishers; The Rise of the International Mega-textbook; Supply Chain Problems; Cross-national Pricing: Territorial Markets and Parallel Importation Prohibition.
International Student EditionsThe Impact of Kirtsaeng v. Wiley; South-South Trade in Textbooks: South Africa and India; Price and Affordability of International Textbooks; Growth in Local South African Textbook Publishing; Scholarly Publishing and University Presses; Copyright Meets the Right to Education; The Copyright Act; Enforcement; Exceptions and Limitations; Collective Licensing; Student Loans and Stipends; Student Practices; Buying Books; Student Sharing Networks; Photocopying; Digital Materials; The Modular, Flexible Future; Open Educational Resources (OER); e-Textbooks.
Note Toward a Digitally Mediated Ecosystem.
Summary Examining the new ecosystems of access that are emerging in middle- and low-income countries as opportunities for higher education expand but funding for materials shrinks. This collection looks at how university students in Russia, Argentina, South Africa, Poland, Brazil, India, and Uruguay get the books and articles they need for their education. The death of Aaron Swartz and the more recent controversy around the SciHub and Libgen repositories have drawn attention to the question of access to knowledge, particularly for students facing financial and other constraints. Open access currently provides a very limited answer to this question, which piracy answers more comprehensively. This edited volume explores how access to knowledge has changed in the past twenty years, as student populations have boomed and as educators and publishers navigated the transition from paper to digital materials. It is concerned primarily with the experience of developing countries, where growing numbers of students, rapid development of Internet and device infrastructures, and high relative inequality have produced the sharpest tensions in the publishing and educational ecosystem.
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Subject Education, Higher -- Developing countries.
Communication in learning and scholarship -- Technological innovations -- Developing countries.
Open access publishing -- Developing countries.
Photocopying -- Developing countries.
Copyright -- Electronic information resources -- Developing countries.
Intellectual property infringement -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries.
Piracy (Copyright) -- Developing countries.
Scholarly electronic publishing -- Developing countries.
Scholarly publishing -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries.
Globalization -- Libraries.
Computers -- Libraries.
Education, Higher -- Materials.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
Communication in learning and scholarship -- Technological innovations. (OCoLC)fst01982416
Copyright -- Electronic information resources. (OCoLC)fst00878731
Education, Higher. (OCoLC)fst00903005
Open access publishing. (OCoLC)fst01737144
Photocopying. (OCoLC)fst01061532
Piracy (Copyright) (OCoLC)fst01064762
Scholarly electronic publishing. (OCoLC)fst01106853
Scholarly publishing -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst01106871
Developing countries. (OCoLC)fst01242969
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Added Author Karaganis, Joe.
Other Form: Print version: Karaganis, Joe. Shadow Libraries : Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education. Cambridge : MIT Press, ©2018 9780262535014
ISBN 9780262345699 (electronic book)
0262345692 (electronic book)
9781552506080 (print)
1552506088 (print)
9780262535014
Music No. 10097230 CaOOCEL (Public Documents)
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