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• W346163906 abstract "The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship by John Willinsky. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. 287 pp. ISBN 0-262-23242-1 With the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and the publication of the first free scientific journal, PLoS Biology, the topic of open access, or free availability to scholarly and scientific literature on the public Internet, has steadily gained interest. While it is important to define open access, it is even more important to address the issue of why and how it serves to improve access to knowledge and to ensure that knowledge remains a public good. This is precisely what John Willinsky, Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology at the University of British Columbia, sets out to do in his latest book, The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship. Willinsky is candid about his intention that the book serve as a call to action as well as a contribution to scholarship. In arguing for innovative approaches to open access, Willinsky offers what he calls an access principle that reflects an ongoing commitment to the value and quality of research, which “carries with it a responsibility to extend the circulation of such work as far as possible and ideally to all who are interested in it and all who might profit by it” (p. xii). Improving and providing access to knowledge is a complex and multifaceted problem, and Willinsky builds his case accordingly. He clearly identifies the problem and approaches it in a systematic and straightforward manner. In the course of thirteen chapters and six appendices he covers a range of topics, from the history of scholarly communication (beginning with the printing press) to issues of copyright, cooperation, reading, and indexing. On the one hand he deals with practical matters of digitizing scholarly journals, while on the other he considers some of scholarly publishing’s more expansive themes, such as extending the research capabilities of developing nations. In order to emphasize the significance of improving and providing access to knowledge Willinsky compares the present-day situation to the print revolution and the emergence of the first scholarly and scientific journals. Although the access principle problem is as old as the great libraries of the past, as Willinsky himself acknowledges, he is interested in exploring a more recent phenomenon, the open access movement, which has been triggered by two events. The first is the issue of soaring prices for scholarly journals that has forced libraries to eliminate journal subscriptions and/or resulted in severe hits to library budgets. This state of “declining access to research and publishing” is itself the result of the transformation of knowledge into “a capitalized commodity and economic driver” (p. 16). The second event is the advent of Internet and digital publishing that have created a viable alternative to the existing publishing model." @default.
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