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  • The Intellectual Properties of Learning

    A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke

    by John Willinsky ...
    Providing a sweeping millennium-plus history of the learned book in the West, John Willinsky puts current debates over intellectual property into context, asking what it is about learning that helped to create the concept even as it gave the products of knowledge a different legal and economic standing than other sorts of property.Willinsky begins with Saint Jerome in the fifth century, then ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Copyright's Broken Promise

    How to Restore the Law's Ability to Promote the Progress of Science

    by John Willinsky ...
    A comprehensive proposal for reforming copyright law to ensure sustainable public access to research and scholarship.Open access is widely supported by researchers, librarians, scholarly societies, and research funders, as well as large and small publishers. Yet despite this support—and the pandemic’s demonstration of the importance of open access for scientific progress—the scholarly publishing ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The New Literacy

    Redefining Reading and Writing in the Schools

    by John Willinsky ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Literacy
    Originally published in 1990. This book examines the innovative programs that changed the way reading and writing was taught during the previous ten years. Both teacher and critic of the New Literacy programs, the author gives a perspective that allows educators, parents, and other readers to assess the promise of these programs. Examining the work of educators from the USA, UK and Canada, he ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Empire of Words

    The Reign of the OED

    by John Willinsky ...
    What is the meaning of a word? Most readers turn to the dictionary for authoritative meanings and correct usage. But what is the source of authority in dictionaries? Some dictionaries employ panels of experts to fix meaning and prescribe usage, others rely on derivation through etymology. But perhaps no other dictionary has done more to standardize the English language than the formidable twenty ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • If Only We Knew

    Increasing The Public Value of Social Science Research

    by John Willinsky ...
    In If Only We Knew John Willinsky uses current social issues and historical precedents to demonstrate that the social sciences can and should contribute far more to public knowledge than they have in the past. We have the technologies, Willinsky demonstrates, and need only the determination to create a public resource out of social research that can extend democratic participation and self ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • We so loved Open Access

    by Jan Velterop, Leila Posenato Garcia, Abel Packer, Peter Suber, Rob Terry, Ginny Barbour, Martin Paul Eve, Melissa Hagemann, Subbiah Arunachalam, Bernard Rentier0, David Prosser1, Hélène Bosc2, Susan Veldsman3, John Willinsky4, Dominiqui Babini5 ...
    The SciELO Program was created in the late 1990s when the idea of free access to scholarly content began to gain momentum, even before the term "open access" had been coined. At that time, access to academic publications was limited and costly, restricted to university libraries and the collections they subscribed to. With the emergence of the World Wide Web, electronic access to academic ... Read more

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