The access principle
Subtitle: the case for open access to research and scholarship
By: John Willinsky.
Series: Digital libraries and electronic publishing
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Open access publishing; Scholarly electronic publishing; Science publishing; Libraries and electronic publishing; Communication in learning and scholarship; Communication in science
Description: "Questions about access to scholarship go back farther than recent debates over subscription prices, rights, and electronic archives suggest. The great libraries of the past - from the fabled collection at Alexandria to the early public libraries of nineteenth-century America - stood as arguments for increasing access. In The Access Principle, John Willinsky describes the latest chapter in this ongoing story - online open access publishing by scholarly journals - and makes a case for open access as a public good."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.