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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “marc scheufen”
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  • Copyright Versus Open Access

    On the Organisation and International Political Economy of Access to Scientific Knowledge

    by Marc Scheufen ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book addresses the recent debate about copyright law and its impact on the distribution of scientific knowledge from an economic perspective. The focus is on the question whether a copyright regime or an open access regime is better suited to the norms and organizational structure in a purely global science community. The book undertakes a thorough economic analysis of the academic journal ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Economics of Open Access

    On the Future of Academic Publishing

    by Thomas Eger, Marc Scheufen ...
    Series series New Horizons in Law and Economics series
    The increasing shift towards digital publishing has provoked much debate concerning the issues surrounding ‘'Open Access’' (OA), including its economic implications. This timely book considers how the future of academic publishing might look in a purely digital environment and utilises unique empirical data in order to analyze the experiences of researchers with, as well as attitudes towards, OA ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Opening Science

    The Evolving Guide on How the Internet is Changing Research, Collaboration and Scholarly Publishing

    Edited by Sönke Bartling, Sascha Friesike ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Modern information and communication technologies, together with a cultural upheaval within the research community, have profoundly changed research in nearly every aspect. Ranging from sharing and discussing ideas in social networks for scientists to new collaborative environments and novel publication formats, knowledge creation and dissemination as we know it is experiencing a vigorous shift ... Read more

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  • Open Access

    by Peter Suber ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial.The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work “open access”: digital, online, free of charge, and free of most ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good

    Frameworks for Engagement

    Edited by Julia Lane, Victoria Stodden, Stefan Bender, Helen Nissenbaum ...
    Massive amounts of data on human beings can now be analyzed. Pragmatic purposes abound, including selling goods and services, winning political campaigns, and identifying possible terrorists. Yet 'big data' can also be harnessed to serve the public good: scientists can use big data to do research that improves the lives of human beings, improves government services, and reduces taxpayer costs. In ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • When Experiments Travel

    Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects

    by Adriana Petryna ...
    The phenomenal growth of global pharmaceutical sales and the quest for innovation are driving an unprecedented search for human test subjects, particularly in middle- and low-income countries. Our hope for medical progress increasingly depends on the willingness of the world's poor to participate in clinical drug trials. While these experiments often provide those in need with vital and previously ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scholarship in the Digital Age

    Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet

    by Christine L. Borgman ...
    An exploration of the technical, social, legal, and economic aspects of the scholarly infrastructure needed to support research activities in all fields in the twenty-first century.Scholars in all fields now have access to an unprecedented wealth of online information, tools, and services. The Internet lies at the core of an information infrastructure for distributed, data-intensive, and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Too Critical to Fail

    How Canada Manages Threats to Critical Infrastructure

    by Ben Bisset, Bryan Mills, Kevin Quigley ...
    In the summer of 2013, just as a small town in Quebec was decimated due to a train derailment, heavy rainfall prompted thirty Alberta communities to declare a state of emergency. Whereas a SWAT team surrounded train conductor Thomas Harding and brought him to court where he was charged with the deaths of forty-seven in Quebec, Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi emerged from the Alberta crisis as a folk ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Linked Democracy

    Foundations, Tools, and Applications

    by Marta Poblet, Pompeu Casanovas, Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Law
    This open access book shows the factors linking information flow, social intelligence, rights management and modelling with epistemic democracy, offering licensed linked data along with information about the rights involved. This model of democracy for the web of data brings new challenges for the social organisation of knowledge, collective innovation, and the coordination of actions. Licensed ... Read more

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  • Scholarly Communication

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Rick Anderson ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    The internet has transformed the ways in which scholars and scientists share their findings with each other and the world, creating a scholarly communication environment that is both more complex and more effective than it was just a few years earlier. "Scholarly communication" itself has become an umbrella term for the increasingly complex ecosystem of publications, platforms, and tools that ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • eHealth: Legal, Ethical and Governance Challenges

    Edited by Carlisle George, Diane Whitehouse, Penny Duquenoy ...
    This publication identifies and discusses important challenges affecting eHealth in the EU and North America in the three areas of law, ethics and governance. It makes meaningful contributions to the eHealth discourse by suggesting solutions and making recommendations for good practice and potential ways forward. Legal challenges discussed include issues related to electronic medical records, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Measuring Research

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    by Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Vincent Larivière ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Policy makers, academic administrators, scholars, and members of the public are clamoring for indicators of the value and reach of research. The question of how to quantify the impact and importance of research and scholarly output, from the publication of books and journal articles to the indexing of citations and tweets, is a critical one in predicting innovation, and in deciding what sorts of ... Read more

    $10.49 USD