Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “peter suber”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Case of the Speluncean Explorers

    Nine New Opinions

    by Peter Suber ...
    The Case of Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions includes a reprint of Lon Fuller's classic article and a much-needed revision of and addition to the five opening s originally expressed in the case by five Supreme Court Judges ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Knowledge Unbound

    Selected Writings on Open Access, 2002-2011

    by Peter Suber ...
    Influential writings make the case for open access to research, explore its implications, and document the early struggles and successes of the open access movement.Peter Suber has been a leading advocate for open access since 2001 and has worked full time on issues of open access since 2003. As a professor of philosophy during the early days of the internet, he realized its power and potential as ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

    Free

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Doctors in Denial

    Why Big Pharma and the Canadian medical profession are too close for comfort

    by Joel Lexchin ...
    Doctors in Denial examines the relationship between the Canadian medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry, and explains how doctors have become dependents of the drug companies instead of champions of patients' health. Big Pharma plays a role in every aspect of doctors' work. These giant, wealthy multinationals influence how medical students are trained and receive information, how ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Private Profits versus Public Policy

    The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian State

    by Joel Lexchin ...
    The widespread condemnation of drastic price increases on life-saving drugs highlights our growing dependency on and vulnerability to international pharmaceutical conglomerates. However, aren’t the interests of the public supposed to supersede the pursuit of private profit?In his new work, Private Profits versus Public Policy, Joel Lexchin addresses this question as he examines how public policy ... Read more

    $31.99 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

  • Smart Citizens, Smarter State

    The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing

    by Beth Simone Noveck ...
    Government “of the people, by the people, for the people” expresses an ideal that resonates in all democracies. Yet poll after poll reveals deep distrust of institutions that seem to have left “the people” out of the governing equation. Government bureaucracies that are supposed to solve critical problems on their own are a troublesome outgrowth of the professionalization of public life in the ... Read more

    $30.29 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

  • 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

  • Global Outsourcing and Offshoring

    An Integrated Approach to Theory and Corporate Strategy

    Edited by Farok J. Contractor, Vikas Kumar, Sumit K. Kundu, Torben Pedersen ...
    Companies are increasingly asking which of their value chain activities are best performed within their own company and which may be outsourced. In addition, they are also considering which pieces of their value chain may be better performed abroad. These interrelated decisions concerning outsourcing and offshoring have not only changed entire industries, they have also transformed the lives of ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • The dynamics of patient organizations in Europe

    Edited by Madeleine Akrich, João Nunes, Florence Paterson, Vololona Rabeharisoa ...
    Series series Sciences sociales
    Patient organizations today play a major role in the scientific, economic and political arenas. They have become the quasi-obliged partners of researchers, industrialists and political authorities. This book investigates this quite recent configuration by offering an in-depth exploration of three thematic issues: To what social and political stakes are patient organizations confronted as regards ... Read more

    $16.99 USD