Open Divide : Critical Studies on Open Access.

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Title Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Open Divide Emerges as Open Access Unfolds; Part One: Global Issues; Openness as Tool for Acceleration and Measurement: Reflections on Problem Representations Underpinning Open Access and Open Science; Open Access, a New Kind of Emerging Knowledge Regime?; Open/Access: Negotiations Between Openness and Access to Research; The Paradox of Success; Open Access and Symbolic Gift Giving; Cooperative Futures: Technologies of the Common in the Collaborative Economy; Part Two: North/South; The Contribution of the Global South to Open Access

Postcolonial Open AccessOpen Access Initiatives and Networking in the Global South; Open Science, Open Access: Opportunities for the Global South, or Just Another Trojan Horse from the North?; A Tale of Two Globes: Exploring the North/South Divide in Engagement with Open Educational Resources; Ubuntu: a Social Justice Pillar for Open Access in Sub Saharan Africa; Asymmetry and Inequality as a Challenge for Open Access: An Interview; Bionotes; Index

"Provides a critical assessment of the concept and the reality of open access, with a special attention to its impact in the countries of the Global South"-- Provided by publisher.

"Provides a critical assessment of the concept and the reality of open access, with a special attention to its impact in the countries of the Global South... This book brings together seventeen short critical studies of scientists and librarians from different continents, all interested in open access, most of them supporting and accompanying the open access projects and initiatives since many years, each one with the motivation to better understand (and make understood) the ongoing transformation of scientific communication. Some topics: the discursive staging of open access, mis/trusting open access, the promise of reducing the digital divide, open access and the Global South, business models of open access, predatory publishing, [and] open access as a symbolic gift"-- Provided by publisher.

"Open access has transformed the traditional way of scientific communication. Open repositories and open access journals provide large and free access to articles, theses and dissertations, reports, working papers, proceedings and books but also to other unpublished items, multimedia files and raw data. Fifteen years after the landmark Budapest Declaration, this book invites the reader to a critical assessment of the concept and the reality of open access, with a special attention to its impact in the countries of the Global South. The success of open access for the dissemination of scientific information cannot be denied. Yet, the growing numbers of OA journals, articles and books should not keep the scientists and librarians from a critical posture towards the reality beyond figures and statistics. Most publications on open access give the impression that there are only benefits and no alternatives to open access. It is time to abandon this blend of marketing, politics and technology-driven ideology and to return to a more scientific and critical stance. This book brings together seventeen short critical studies of scientists and librarians from different continents, all interested in open access, most of them supporting and accompanying the open access projects and initiatives since many years, each one with the motivation to better understand (and make understood) the ongoing transformation of scientific communication. Some topics: the discursive staging of open access, mis/trusting open access, the promise of reducing digital divide, open access and the Global South, business models of open access, predatory publishing, open access as a symbolic gift." -- Publisher's description.

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