Understanding knowledge as a commons
Subtitle: from theory to practice
By: edited by Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom.
Contributors: Hess, Charlotte.; Ostrom, Elinor.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780262083577
Subjects: Knowledge management; Information commons
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : an overview of the knowledge commons / Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom; title: The growth of the commons paradigm / David Bollier; title: A framework for analyzing the knowledge commons / Elinor Ostrom and Charlotte Hess; title: Countering enclosure : reclaiming the knowledge commons / Nancy Kranich; title: Mertonianism unbound? : imagining free, decentralized access to most cultural and scientific material / James Boyle; title: Preserving the knowledge commons / Donald J. Waters; title: Creating an intellectual commons through open access / Peter Suber; title: How to build a commons : is intellectual property constrictive, facilitating, or irrelevant? / Shubha Ghosh; title: Collective action, civic engagement, and the knowledge commons / Peter Levine; title: Free/open-source software as a framework for establishing commons in science / Charles M. Schweik; title: Scholarly communication and libraries unbound : the opportunity of the commons / Wendy Pradt Lougee; title: EconPort : creating and maintaining a knowledge commons / James C. Cox and J. Todd Swarthout.