Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education

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Joe Karaganis (Vice President, Columbia University) Balazs Bodo (University of Amsterdam)

Shadow Libraries

Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education

Joe Karaganis (Vice President, Columbia University), Balazs Bodo (University of Amsterdam), Evelin Heidel , Eve Gray (Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town)

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MIT Press
04 May 2018

Coding theory & cryptology; Universities

Series: International Development Research Centre

"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 ones organized by faculty, copy shops, student unions, and students themselves. It looks at the history of policy battles over access to education in the post-World War II era and at the narrower versions that have played out in relation toresearch and textbooks, from library policies to book subsidies to, more recently, the several ""open"" publication models that have emerged in the higher education sector.

From the bottom up, Shadow Libraries explores how, simply, students get the materials they need. It maps the ubiquitous practice of photocopying and what are-in many cases-the more marginal ones of buying books, visiting libraries, and downloading from unauthorized sources. It looks at the informal networks that emerge in many contexts to share materials, from face-to-face student networks to Facebook groups, and at the processes that lead to the consolidation of some of those efforts into more organized archives that circulate offline and sometimes online- the shadow libraries of the title. If Alexandra Elbakyan's Sci-Hub is the largest of these efforts to date, the more characteristic part of her story is the prologue- the personal struggle to participate in global scientific and educational communities, and the recourse to a wide array of ad hoc strategies and networks when formal, authorized means are lacking. If Elbakyan's story has struck a chord, it is in part because it brings this contradiction in the academic project into sharp relief-universalist in principle and unequal in practice. Shadow Libraries is a study of that tension in the digital era.

Contributors Balazs Bod , Laura Czerniewicz, Miroslaw Filiciak, Mariana Fossatti, Jorge Gemetto, Eve Gray, Evelin Heidel, Joe Karaganis, Lawrence Liang, Pedro Mizukami, Jhessica Reia, Alek Tarkowski"

Contributions by: Balazs Bodo (University of Amsterdam), Evelin Heidel, Eve Gray (Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town), Laura Czerniewicz (Associate Professor and Director, University of Cape Town)
Edited by: Joe Karaganis (Vice President Columbia University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 16mm
ISBN: 9780262535014
ISBN 10: 0262535017
Series: International Development Research Centre
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 04 May 2018
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joe Karaganis is Vice President of The American Assembly, a public policy institute at Columbia University, and editor of Media Piracy in Emerging Economies.

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