Open Divide? Critical Studies on Open Access » scinoptica

"In April 2018 the anthology „Open Divide? Critical Studies on Open Access“ will be published. Here you find the table of contents of the book, including links to articles available in Open Access. The publisher, Rory Litwin of Litwin Books, allowed the authors to retain the rights of their contributions. Each of the articles in the book, but not the book as a whole, can be made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. I would also like to thank Julian Wichert, who designed the graphic in this post.

Open Divide? Critical Studies on Open Access, Editors: Joachim Schöpfel and Ulrich Herb, Publisher: Litwin Books, ISBN: 978-1-63400-029-1,

Contents:

Richard Poynder, Preface, , Ulrich Herb & Joachim Schöpfel, Introduction: Open Divide Emerges as Open Access Unfolds. Part One: Global Issues. Jutta Haider, Openness as Tool for Acceleration and Measurement: Reflections on Problem Representations Underpinning Open Access and Open Science. Elena Šimukovič, Open Access, a New Kind of Emerging Knowledge Regime?  Samuel Moore, Open/Access: Negotiations Between Openness and Access to Research. Joachim Schöpfel, The Paradox of Success. Ulrich Herb, Open Access and Symbolic Gift Giving. Soenke Zehle, Cooperative Futures: Technologies of the Common in the Collaborative Economy. Part Two: North/South. Hélène Prost & Joachim Schöpfel, The Contribution of the Global South to Open Access. Florence Piron, Postcolonial Open Access. Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Initiatives and Networking in the Global South. Elizabeth Mlambo, Open Science, Open Access: Opportunities for the Global South, or Just Another Trojan Horse from the North?, Beatriz de los Arcos and Martin Weller, A Tale of Two Globes: Exploring the North/South Divide in Engagement with Open Educational Resources. Reggie Raju, Ubuntu: a Social Justice Pillar for Open Access in Sub Saharan Africa. Leslie Chan (interview by Joachim Schöpfel), Asymmetry and inequality as a challenge for open access – an interview."