Format:
1 Online-Ressource (321 pages)
ISBN:
9780262345699
Series Statement:
International Development Research Centre Ser.
Content:
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
Content:
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 Library -- Copyright 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 Diets -- Conclusion -- 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
Content:
Student Resistance and the Publishing Underground -- The 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 Editions -- The 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 -- Toward a Digitally Mediated Ecosystem -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 6 Poland: Where the State Ends, the Hamster Begins -- Miroslaw Filiciak and Alek Tarkowski -- The Higher Education System in Poland after 1989 -- Language and Publishing -- Libraries and Databases -- Open Access and Educational Exceptions to Copyright Law -- Student Practices -- Field Differences between Law and Communications -- Libraries and Databases -- Content Sharing by Course Instructors and Students -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7 India: The Knowledge Thief -- Academic Libraries Real and Imagined
Content:
Access to Databases in University Libraries -- The Universal Library -- From Alexandria to Shadow Libraries -- Ekalavya -- The Social and Political Life of Books -- The Unfulfilled Public Library -- Publishing Politics -- Nationalization of the Textbook Market -- Books for Wheat -- Higher Education Publishing -- Book Piracy -- How Students Get What They Need -- Digital Access -- Enforcement and the Delhi University Photocopy Case -- The Decision -- Toward a Better Legal Framework for Access to Educational Materials -- The Right to Education -- The Library Exception -- Open Access -- Notes -- References -- 8 Brazil: The Copy Shop and the Cloud -- Universities, Publishers, and the Battle over Copying -- The Internet as Source -- Student Practices -- Conclusion: Taking Access for Granted -- Notes -- References -- 9 Coda: Uruguay -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780262535014
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Shadow libraries New York : The American Assembly at Columbia University, 2018 ISBN 9780262535014
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
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