Knowledge Unlatched:A Global Library Consortium Model for Funding Open Access Scholarly Books

This special issue of Cultural Science Journal is devoted to the report of a groundbreaking experiment in re-coordinating global markets for specialist scholarly books and enabling the knowledge commons: the Knowledge Unlatched proof-of-concept pilot. The pilot took place between January 2012 and Se...

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Main Author: Montgomery, Lucy
Format: Journal Article
Published: Cultural Science 2014
Online Access:http://cultural-science.org/journal/index.php/culturalscience/article/view/96
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12680
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description This special issue of Cultural Science Journal is devoted to the report of a groundbreaking experiment in re-coordinating global markets for specialist scholarly books and enabling the knowledge commons: the Knowledge Unlatched proof-of-concept pilot. The pilot took place between January 2012 and September 2014. It involved libraries, publishers, authors, readers and research funders in the process of developing and testing a global library consortium model for supporting Open Access books. The experiment established that authors, librarians, publishers and research funding agencies can work together in powerful new ways to enable open access; that doing so is cost effective; and that a global library consortium model has the potential dramatically to widen access to the knowledge and ideas contained in book-length scholarly works.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-126802017-01-30T11:32:11Z Knowledge Unlatched:A Global Library Consortium Model for Funding Open Access Scholarly Books Montgomery, Lucy This special issue of Cultural Science Journal is devoted to the report of a groundbreaking experiment in re-coordinating global markets for specialist scholarly books and enabling the knowledge commons: the Knowledge Unlatched proof-of-concept pilot. The pilot took place between January 2012 and September 2014. It involved libraries, publishers, authors, readers and research funders in the process of developing and testing a global library consortium model for supporting Open Access books. The experiment established that authors, librarians, publishers and research funding agencies can work together in powerful new ways to enable open access; that doing so is cost effective; and that a global library consortium model has the potential dramatically to widen access to the knowledge and ideas contained in book-length scholarly works. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12680 http://cultural-science.org/journal/index.php/culturalscience/article/view/96 Cultural Science fulltext
spellingShingle Montgomery, Lucy
Knowledge Unlatched:A Global Library Consortium Model for Funding Open Access Scholarly Books
title Knowledge Unlatched:A Global Library Consortium Model for Funding Open Access Scholarly Books
title_full Knowledge Unlatched:A Global Library Consortium Model for Funding Open Access Scholarly Books
title_fullStr Knowledge Unlatched:A Global Library Consortium Model for Funding Open Access Scholarly Books
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge Unlatched:A Global Library Consortium Model for Funding Open Access Scholarly Books
title_short Knowledge Unlatched:A Global Library Consortium Model for Funding Open Access Scholarly Books
title_sort knowledge unlatched:a global library consortium model for funding open access scholarly books
url http://cultural-science.org/journal/index.php/culturalscience/article/view/96
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12680