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Open access / Peter Suber.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: The MIT Press essential knowledge seriesPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.Description: xii, 242 pages ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 9780262517638 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0262517639 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.5/7973
LOC classification:
  • Z 286 S941o 2012
Contents:
What is open access? -- Motivation -- Varieties -- Policies -- Scope -- Copyright -- Economics -- Casualties -- Future -- Self-help.
Summary: In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber's influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers. --Publisher information
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) Z 286 S941o 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000178341

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-221) and index.

What is open access? -- Motivation -- Varieties -- Policies -- Scope -- Copyright -- Economics -- Casualties -- Future -- Self-help.

In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber's influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers. --Publisher information

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