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Pirate philosophy for a digital posthumanities
How philosophers and theorists can find new models for the creation, publication, and dissemination of knowledge, challenging the received ideas of originality, authorship, and the book.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262332217
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 248 pages).
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Beyond bibliometrics :harnessing multidimensional indicators of scholarly impact
Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available tools and data that can reveal patterns of intellectual activity and impact that were previously invisible: mentions, acknowledgments, endorsements, downloads, recommendations, blog posts, tweets. This book describes recent the…
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- 9780262323284
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- 1 online resource (viii, 466 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Living books :experiments in the posthumanities
"Living Books explores the potential futures of the scholarly book in an increasingly digital environment"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366460
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Knowledge unbound: Selected writings on open access, 2002-2011
Selection of writings, mostly from the author's SPARC open access newsletter.Peter Suber has been a leading advocate for open access since 2001 and has worked full time on issues of open access since 2003. As a professor of philosophy during the early days of the internet, he realized its power and potential as a medium for scholarship. As he writes now, "it was like an asteroid crash, fundamen…
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- 9780262329552
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 436 pages)
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Scholarship in the digital age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet
Scholars in all fields now have access to an unprecedented wealth of online information, tools, and services. The Internet lies at the core of an information infrastructure for distributed, data-intensive, and collaborative research. Although much attention has been paid to the new technologies making this possible, from digitized books to sensor networks, it is the underlying social and policy…
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 336 pages) : illustrations
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Open access
A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial.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, a…
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- 9780262301732
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- 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages).
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Literature's elsewheres :on the necessity of radical literary practices
An examination of a series of diverse, radical, and experimental international works from the 1950s to the present.What is a literary work? In Literature's Elsewheres, Annette Gilbert tackles this question by deploying an extended concept of literature, examining a series of diverse, radical, experimental works from the 1950s to the present that occupy the liminal zone between art and literatur…
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- 9780262373494
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A History of Booksellers The Old and the New
Henry Curwen (1845–1892) was a journalist and author who became editor of the Times of India. First published in 1874, A History of Booksellers aimed at providing an informative but entertaining picture of British bookselling and publishing, by means of 'biographies' of the major publishing houses and their output. He begins with a general survey of publishing and bookselling from Roman times…
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Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities
In Knowledge Machines, Eric Meyer and Ralph Schroeder argue that digital technologies have fundamentally changed research practices in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Meyer and Schroeder show that digital tools and data, used collectively and in distributed mode -- which they term e-research -- have transformed not just the consumption of knowledge but also the production of know…
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- 9780262328180
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- 1 online resource (x, 271 pages) :illustrations.
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Athena unbound :why and how scholarly knowledge should be free for all
"This expansive history of knowledge and its openness makes a strong and nuanced case for opening scholarly knowledge to the public"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262373968
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