Understanding Knowledge as a Commons - Table of Contents

December 2006
6 x 9, 381 pp., 8 illus.
$38.00/£28.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-08357-4
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-08357-7

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Understanding Knowledge as a Commons
From Theory to Practice
Edited by Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom

	Preface Sample Chapter - Download PDF (43 KB)	ix

I.	Studying the Knowledge Commons	1

1.	Introduction: An Overview of the Knowledge Commons Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom Sample Chapter - Download PDF (110 KB)	3

2.	The Growth of the Commons Paradigm David Bollier	27

3.	A Framework for Analyzing the Knowledge Commons Elinor Ostrom and Charlotte Hess	41

II.	Protecting the Knowledge Commons	83

4.	Countering Enclosure Reclaiming the Knowledge Commons Nancy Kranich	85

5.	Mertonianism Unbound? Imagining Free, Decentralized Access to Most Cultural and Scientific Material James Boyle	123

6.	Preserving the Knowledge Commons Donald J. Waters	145

III.`	Building New Knowledge Commons	169

7.	Creating an Intellectual Commons through Open Access Peter Suber	171

8.	How to Build a Commons Is Intellectual Property Constrictive, Facilitating, or Irrelevant? Shubha Ghosh	209

9.	Collective Action, Civic Engagement, and the Knowledge Commons Peter Levine	247

10.	Free/Open-Source Software as a Framework for Establishing Commons in Science Charles M. Schweik	277

11.	Scholarly Communication and Libraries Unbound The Opportunity of the Commons Wendy Pradt Lougee	311

12.	EconPort Creating and Maintaining a Knowledge Commons James C. Cox and J. Todd Swarthout	333

	Glossary Sample Chapter - Download PDF (44 KB)	349

	Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (71 KB)	353

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