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Edited by Scott Jacques | Preprint edition | Published January 7, 2024 | © 2024 | New materials are CC BY NC SA | doi: 10.21428/93b40405.fd2836f0 | ISBN forthcoming
Published: Jan 07, 2024
Published: Jan 07, 2024
Open Access Reader — A compilation of excerpts from MIT Press books that're open access and inform open access, republished with the open-source platform PubPub.
Published: Aug 27, 2010
Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia — How Wikipedia collaboration addresses the challenges of openness, consensus, and leadership in a historical pursuit for a universal encyclopedia.
Published: Oct 07, 2011
Intellectual Property Strategy — How a flexible and creative approach to intellectual property can help an organization accomplish goals ranging from building market share to expanding an industry.
Published: Jul 20, 2012
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.
Published: Oct 05, 2012
The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright — The evolution of activism against the expansion of copyright in the digital domain, with case studies of resistance including eBook and iTunes hacks.
Published: Jan 10, 2014
Open Development: Networked Innovations in International Development — Experts explore current theory and practice in the application of digitally enabled open networked social models to international development.
Published: Mar 25, 2016
Knowledge Unbound: Selected Writings on Open Access, 2002–2011 — Influential writings make the case for open access to research, explore its implications, and document the early struggles and successes of the open access movement.
Published: Nov 04, 2016
The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy — An argument for retaining the notion of personal property in the products we “buy” in the digital marketplace.
Published: Nov 18, 2016
Free Innovation — A leading innovation scholar explains the growing phenomenon and impact of free innovation, in which innovations developed by consumers and given away “for free.”
Published: May 04, 2018
Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education — How students get the materials they need as opportunities for higher education expand but funding shrinks.
Published: Aug 25, 2020
Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research — Drawing on ten years of empirical work and research, analyses of how open development has played out in practice.
Published: Oct 13, 2020
Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution — Wikipedia's first twenty years: how what began as an experiment in collaboration became the world's most popular reference work.
Published: Oct 20, 2020
Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access — A critical inquiry into the politics, practices, and infrastructures of open access and the reconfiguration of scholarly communication in digital societies.
Published: Aug 03, 2021
Open Knowledge Institutions: Reinventing Universities — The future of the university as an open knowledge institution that institutionalizes diversity and contributes to a common resource of knowledge: a manifesto.
Published: Aug 31, 2021
Living Books: Experiments in the Posthumanities — Reimagining the scholarly book as living and collaborative—not as commodified and essentialized, but in all its dynamic materiality.
Published: Dec 06, 2022
The Power of Partnership in Open Government: Reconsidering Multistakeholder Governance Reform — What the Open Government Partnership tells us about how international initiatives can and do shape domestic public sector reform.
Published: Dec 06, 2022
Copyright's Broken Promise: How to Restore the Law's Ability to Promote the Progress of Science — A comprehensive proposal for reforming copyright law to ensure sustainable public access to research and scholarship.
Published: Mar 28, 2023
Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All — A clear-eyed examination of the open access movement: past history, current conflicts, and future possibilities.
Published: Jun 27, 2023
Parody in the Age of Remix: Mashup Creativity vs. the Takedown — The art of mashup music, its roots in parody, and its social and legal implications.
Published: Jul 18, 2023
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property — A framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society.
About the Editor
Scott Jacques is Founder of CrimRxiv and Professor of Criminology at Georgia State University. His open access books are Grey Area: Regulating Amsterdam’s Coffeeshops, and Jeremy Bentham on Police: The Unknown Story and What It Means for Criminology, both published with UCL Press. To learn more, visit scottjacques.pubpub.org.
