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Funding Models
3 Funding ModelsFunding is a critical aspect of open knowledge. Open access means free access: free to be built upon, but free of charge (gratis) as well (Fitzpatrick 2010). Since it's not the reader...
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What is Open Access?Gary Hall defines Open Access in Digitize This Book! (2008) as follows: 'access that is digital, online, and free of charge to those able to connect to the Internet, without having...
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Funding: 3.43.4 Crowd-sourced open knowledge: donationsAs a crowd-sourced encyclopedia, Wikipedia gets its funding differently than scholarly journals and open education do. Wikipedia is not funded by...
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Visibility, Popularity and Accessibility
By ‘open access’, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them...
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Reliability of published information. What is "quality" open knowledge?There is an inherent scepticism towards everything that’s free, and this is only strengthened when something is both free, and on...
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REFERENCESMaaikeLee Rainie, Bill Tancer, Wikipedia: When in Doubt, Multitudes Seek It Out, April 24, 2007J. Roschelle, Keynote paper: "Unlocking the learning value of wireless mobile devices"in Journal...
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What's next for Open Access? The chance of putting together all the research literature as open access and consequently making it accessible at a low price and on a worldwide extent to the public has...
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IntroductionWhen talking about Open Access and open knowledge, there are a lot of different platfoms that come to mind. Not only are there numerous Open Access journals focusing on scholarly...
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PrefaceDuring the course "The Digital Book" at the University of Amsterdam, we were instructed by our lecturer M.J. Dieter to produce a book from scratch in four days. The expectation was to...
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