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. From the top down, Shadow Libraries explores the institutions that shape the provision of educational materials, from the formal sector of universities and publishers to the broadly informal on...
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Cambridge
The MIT Press
2018
American Assembly at Columbia University MIT Press International Development Research Centre |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Series: | International Development Research Centre |
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| ISBN: | 9780262535014, 0262535017, 9780262345699, 0262345692 |
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Table of Contents:
- Student Resistance and the Publishing Underground -- The Anti-apartheid Academic Boycott and the Rise of a Copying Culture -- Post-apartheid Higher Education Policy -- The Right of Access to a Locally Relevant Education: Aspirations and Realities -- National Education Policy-A Divided Agenda -- Completion Rates -- The Academic Publishing Sector in a Period of Change -- Post-apartheid Market Consolidation -- The Demise of the Radical Publishers -- The Rise of the International Mega-textbook -- Supply Chain Problems -- Cross-national Pricing: Territorial Markets and Parallel Importation Prohibition -- International Student Editions -- The Impact of Kirtsaeng v. Wiley -- South-South Trade in Textbooks: South Africa and India -- Price and Affordability of International Textbooks -- Growth in Local South African Textbook Publishing -- Scholarly Publishing and University Presses -- Copyright Meets the Right to Education -- The Copyright Act -- Enforcement -- Exceptions and Limitations -- Collective Licensing -- Student Loans and Stipends -- Student Practices -- Buying Books -- Student Sharing Networks -- Photocopying -- Digital Materials -- The Modular, Flexible Future -- Open Educational Resources (OER) -- e-Textbooks -- Toward a Digitally Mediated Ecosystem -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 6 Poland: Where the State Ends, the Hamster Begins -- Miroslaw Filiciak and Alek Tarkowski -- The Higher Education System in Poland after 1989 -- Language and Publishing -- Libraries and Databases -- Open Access and Educational Exceptions to Copyright Law -- Student Practices -- Field Differences between Law and Communications -- Libraries and Databases -- Content Sharing by Course Instructors and Students -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7 India: The Knowledge Thief -- Academic Libraries Real and Imagined
- Access to Databases in University Libraries -- The Universal Library -- From Alexandria to Shadow Libraries -- Ekalavya -- The Social and Political Life of Books -- The Unfulfilled Public Library -- Publishing Politics -- Nationalization of the Textbook Market -- Books for Wheat -- Higher Education Publishing -- Book Piracy -- How Students Get What They Need -- Digital Access -- Enforcement and the Delhi University Photocopy Case -- The Decision -- Toward a Better Legal Framework for Access to Educational Materials -- The Right to Education -- The Library Exception -- Open Access -- Notes -- References -- 8 Brazil: The Copy Shop and the Cloud -- Universities, Publishers, and the Battle over Copying -- The Internet as Source -- Student Practices -- Conclusion: Taking Access for Granted -- Notes -- References -- 9 Coda: Uruguay -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index
- Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Access from Above, Access from Below -- Piracy -- The Common Thread -- The Higher Education Boom and State Retreat -- Access from Below -- Conflict -- Universities -- Change -- Policy -- The Country Studies -- Notes -- References -- 2 The Genesis of Library Genesis: The Birth of a Global Scholarly Shadow Library -- (Pirate) Libraries on the Internet -- Library Genesis -- The Communist Ideal of the Reading Nation -- Censorship -- The Soviet and Post-Soviet Literary and Scientific Underground -- The Emergence of Do-It-Yourself Digital Libraries in RuNet -- Maxim Moshkov and lib.ru -- Toward a Million-Book Scientific Library -- Copyright and "Copynorms" in Russian Pirate Librarianship -- The Co-development of Copynorms and Copyright Laws in the Post-Soviet Era -- Formalization of the IP Regime in the 2000s -- Closure of the Legal Regime -- Notes -- References -- 3 Library Genesis in Numbers: Mapping the Underground Flow of Knowledge -- The Supply of Documents in Library Genesis -- Preexisting Collections -- Linguistic and Thematic Expansion of Library Genesis -- Publishers -- The Age of Works in Library Genesis -- The Legal Supply of Works in Library Genesis -- The Demand Side -- Demand by Country -- Country-Level Knowledge Diets -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Argentina: A Student-Made Ecosystem in an Era of State Retreat -- Eudeba: The University Press as Democratizer of Knowledge -- From Public to Private: El Centro Editor de América Latina -- How Students Survived Changes in the Ecosystem -- The Losing Battle against Copying -- Toward Online Digital Libraries -- BiblioFyL -- Notice and Takedown -- Reintermediation -- Notes -- References -- 5 Access to Learning Resources in Post-apartheid South Africa -- Eve Gray and Laura Czerniewicz -- Higher Education under Apartheid