TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hall,Gary
TI  - Digitize this book!: the politics of new media, or why we need open access now 
T2  - Electronic mediations
SN  - 9780816648719 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
AV  - Z 286 H176d 2008
U1  - 070.5/7973 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Open access publishing
KW  - Publicación en acceso abierto
KW  - Scholarly electronic publishing
KW  - Libros electrónicos
KW  - Communication in learning and scholarship
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Internet
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Aspectos políticos
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-291) and index; Why all academic research and scholarship should be made available in online open access archives, now! -- Judgment and responsibility in the wikipedia era -- IT, again, or, How to build an ethical institution -- Antipolitics and the Internet -- Hypercyberdemocracy
N2  - In the sciences, the merits and ramifications of open access -- the electronic publishing model that gives readers free, irrevocable, worldwide, and perpetual access to research -- have been vigorously debated. Open access is now increasingly proposed as a valid means of both disseminating knowledge and career advancement. In Digitize This Book! Gary Hall presents a timely and ambitious polemic on the potential that open access publishing has to transform both "papercentric" humanities scholarship and the institution of the university itself. Hall, a pioneer in open access publishing in the humanities, explores the new possibilities that digital media have for creatively and productively blurring the boundaries that separate not just disciplinary fields but also authors from readers. Hall focuses specifically on how open access publishing and archiving can revitalize the field of cultural studies by making it easier to rethink academia and its institutions. At the same time, by unsettling the processes and categories of scholarship, open access raises broader questions about the role of the university as a whole, forcefully challenging both its established identity as an elite ivory tower and its more recent reinvention under the tenets of neoliberalism as knowledge factory and profit center. Rigorously interrogating the intellectual, political, and ethical implications of open access, Digitize This Book! is a radical call for democratizing access to knowledge and transforming the structures of academic and institutional authority and legitimacy
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0815/2008011042.html
ER  -