A compilation of excerpts from MIT Press books that're open access and inform open access, republished with the open-source platform PubPub. The readings describe and analyze (digital) law, crime, criminal justice, and security.
Welcome to my Open Access Reader (OAR). It’s a compilation of excerpts that are “open access” and inform it as a subject. The excerpts are drawn from MIT Press books, published here with the open-source platform PubPub,1 a product of the MIT-spinoff Knowledge Futures.
What’s open access? As literature, it’s “digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions” (Suber 2012). As a process, cause, and effect, it’s a matter of law, crime, criminal justice, and security. It’s an invention of the digital era, built on archaic “copyright.”
To be clear, this Introduction isn’t done; thus, neither is the Reader; and it’s not published by MIT Press, PubPub, or Knowledge Futures.2 This Reader is a “preprint”: good enough to make public, but not “final final” because edits are expected.3
I encourage you to publicly or privately shape the Reader by, respectively, submitting an open review or emailing me. I want to hear from you, especially with constructive criticism. Please help me make this better?
What I don’t expect to change is the Reader’s core-structure:
Each excerpt is a chapter, sometimes two, from an MIT Press book.4
Each excerpt’s full text is reproduced on a “Pub” dedicated to it.5
The excerpts are listed on the homepage and Table of Contents. They may be read in any order. I put them chronologically to emphasize that open access is in development—it’s history in the making; and, related, to leave room for additional excerpts from to-be-published books.6
Any original content in/on this book-website, including the art,7 is hereby licensed CC BY NC SA. All excerpts have the same license, unless their original (i.e., book’s) license is CC BY NC ND; if so, that’s duplicated.
Looking further out, with bigger ambition, and a less certain outcome…
I see this Reader as an ongoing experiment in computational and open access publishing.8 In subsequent editions, I want to increase the Reader’s quantity and quality. I may add Collections9 for each book and each subject (e.g., crime vs. law vs. security). These Collections may include ancillary OER with audio, video, and interactive features.10 There’s an AI ChatBot that I published but haven’t managed to make open. And so on.
Bowie, Simon. 2022. What is computational publishing? Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM). doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.af466093
Creative Commons. No date (n.d.). About CC Licenses. creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses
Pooley, Jefferson (ed.). 2021. Social Media & the Self: An Open Reader. mediastudies.press. doi.org/10.32376/3f8575cb.1fc3f80a
Suber, Peter. 2012. What Is Open Access? Chapter 1 in Open Access. MIT Press. doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9286.003.0003 In this Reader
Appendix A. Expanded Table of Contents with books, excerpts, and supplements | ||||||||||
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Book | Year | License | Excerpt | Supplements | ||||||
Title | Author/Editor | Version-of-record URL | Title in Reader | Author | Source-text URL | Pub’s DOI | Title | URL | ||
Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia | Joseph Reagle | 2010 | CC BY NC ND | The Puzzle of Openness | Joseph Reagle | Author-hosted edition | ||||
Intellectual Property Strategy | John Palfrey | 2011 | CC BY NC | Establish a Flexible Intellectual Property Strategy | John Palfrey | MIT Press @ PubPub edition | ||||
Open Access | Peter Suber | 2012 | CC BY | What is Open Access? | Peter Suber | MIT Press @ PubPub edition — Author-hosted homepage for book | openaccesseks.mitpress.mit.edu — | |||
The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright | Hector Postigo | 2012 | CC BY NC ND | Structure and Tactics of the Digital Rights Movement | Hector Postigo | - | - | |||
Open Development: Networked Innovations in International Development | Matthew L. Smith, Katherine M.A. Reilly | 2014 | CC BY | The Emergence of Open Development in a Network Society | Katherine M. A. Reilly, Matthew L. Smith | - | - | |||
Knowledge Unbound: Selected Writings on Open Access, 2022-2011 | Peter Suber | 2016 | CC BY | Quality and Open Access | Peter Suber | knowledgeunbound.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/ahjkmdqx — | MIT Press @ PubPub edition | |||
The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy | Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz | 2016 | CC BY NC ND | Property and the Exhaustion Principle | Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz | direct.mit.edu/books/book/4662/chapter/213411/Property-and-the-Exhaustion-Principle | - | - | ||
Free Innovation | Eric von Hippel | 2016 | CC BY NC ND | The Broad Scope of Free Innovation | Eric von Hippel | direct.mit.edu/books/book/5344/chapter/3818287/The-Broad-Scope-of-Free-Innovation | - | - | ||
Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education | Joe Karaganis | 2018 | CC BY | The Birth of a Global Scholarly Shadow Library | Balázs Bodó | - | - | |||
Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research | Nola Haddadian, Matthew L. Smith, Ruhiya Kristine Seward | 2020 | CC BY | Integrating Theory and Practice across Open Science, Open Access, and Open Data | Jeremy de Beer | - | - | |||
Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution | Joseph Reagle, Jackie Koerner | 2020 | CC BY NC | Making History, Building the Future Together | Katherine Maher | MIT Press @ PubPub OA edition | ||||
Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access | Martin Paul Eve, Jonathan Gray | 2020 | CC BY | Scholarly Communication and Social Justice | Charlotte Roh, Harrison W. Inefuku, Emily Drabinski | - | - | |||
Open Knowledge Institutions: Reinventing Universities | Lucy Montgomery et al. | 2021 | CC BY | Change [and] Action | Lucy Montgomery et al. | MIT Press @ PubPub OA edition | ||||
The Power of Partnership in Open Government: Reconsidering Multistakeholder Governance Reform | Suzanne J. Piotrowski, Daniel Berliner, Alex Ingrams | 2022 | CC BY NC ND | Public Management Reform in a Global Perspective | Suzanne J. Piotrowski, Daniel Berliner, Alex Ingrams | - | - | |||
Copyright's Broken Promise: How to Restore the Law's Ability to Promote the Progress of Science | John Willinsky | 2022 | CC BY NC ND | Scholarly Publishing’s Market Failure | John Willinsky | - | - | |||
Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All | Peter Baldwin | 2023 | CC BY NC ND | The Professoriate and Open Access | Peter Baldwin | - | - | |||
Parody in the Age of Remix: Mashup Creativity vs. the Takedown | Ragnhild Brøvig | 2023 | CC BY NC ND | Sampling Ethics and Mashups’ Legality | Ragnhild Brøvig | - | - | |||
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property | Dagmar Schäfer, Annapurna Mamidipudi, Marius Buning | 2023 | CC BY NC ND | Teaching Intellectual Property | Marius Buning | - | - | |||
Notes: For URLs, I provide DOIs by default; if there isn’t one or it’s not working (“DOI not found”), I provider the publisher’s display-URL. For details on the license types, see Creative Commons (n.d.). “Source-text” refers to the text-version that was copied into the Pub for editing and republishing. “Supplements” are of authors and the publisher. Ignore this inconspicuous secret.11 | ||||||||||
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