Ellen Finnie Duranceau, Libraries & the Digital Commons: Eight Principles for an Emerging Ecosystem
peter.suber's bookmarks 2013-11-10
Summary:
"With the prospect of increasingly open access to research on the horizon, academic Libraries should be poised to embrace the challenging question of what they can do to support their campuses in this new, evolving environment. Yet we are only
beginning to understand what we need to do to adapt to support and foster open access. We will need new models and new ways of thinking — new frames of reference. This article provides such a new frame of reference by exploring the idea of “The Commons” as applied to digital scholarship, through the lens of the principles needed to manage a biological commons...."