Shadow libraries : : access to educational materials in global higher education /

Shadow libraries : : access to educational materials in global higher education / / edited by Joe Karaganis.

This collection looks at how university students in Russia, Argentina, South Africa, Poland, Brazil, India, and Uruguay get the books and articles they need for their education. The death of Aaron Swartz and the more recent controversy around the SciHub and Libgen repositories have drawn attention t...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:International Development Research Centre
TeilnehmendeR:
Karaganis, Joe,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : The MIT Press ;, Ottawa, ON : : International Development Research Centre,, [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:International Development Research Centre
Physical Description:1 online resource (321 pages)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • The Russian origins of the online shadow library / Balázs Bodó
  • In the shadow of the gigapedia / Balázs Bodó
  • Argentina: a student-made ecosystem in an era of state retreat / Evelin Heidel
  • Access to learning resources in post-apartheid South Africa / Eve Gray and Laura Czerniewicz
  • Poland: where the state ends, the hamster begins / Alek Tarkowski and Miroslaw Filiciak
  • India: the knowledge thief / Lawrence Liang
  • Brazil: the copy shop and the cloud / Pedro Mizukami and Jhessica Reia
  • Coda: Uruguay / Jorge Gemetto and Mariana Fossatti.

Similar Items