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This invaluable guide provides the "how-to" information necessary for institutions considering the development of an information commons. Offering plain-speaking advice on what works, expert authors Bailey and Tierney provide comprehensive case studies from small and large academic libraries to help librarians implement, provide training for, market, and assess an information commons.

Information commons. --- Information commons --- Library & Information Science --- Social Sciences --- Commons, Information --- Commons, Learning --- Learning commons

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Looking at knowledge as a shared resource: experts discuss how to define, protect, and build the knowledge commons in the digital age. "Knowledge in digital form offers unprecedented access to information through the Internet but at the same time is subject to ever-greater restrictions through intellectual property legislation, overpatenting, licensing, overpricing, and lack of preservation. Looking at knowledge as a commons--as a shared resource--allows us to understand both its limitless possibilities and what threatens it. In Understanding Knowledge as a Commons, experts from a range of disciplines discuss the knowledge commons in the digital era--how to conceptualize it, protect it, and build it. Contributors consider the concept of the commons historically and offer an analytical framework for understanding knowledge as a shared social-ecological system. They look at ways to guard against enclosure of the knowledge commons, considering, among other topics, the role of research libraries, the advantages of making scholarly material available outside the academy, and the problem of disappearing Web pages. They discuss the role of intellectual property in a new knowledge commons, the open access movement (including possible funding models for scholarly publications), the development of associational commons, the application of a free/open source framework to scientific knowledge, and the effect on scholarly communication of collaborative communities within academia, and offer a case study of EconPort, an open access, open source digital library for students and researchers in microeconomics. The essays clarify critical issues that arise within these new types of commons--and offer guideposts for future theory and practice."

Knowledge management. --- Information commons. --- Commons, Information --- Commons, Learning --- Learning commons --- Management of knowledge assets --- Management --- Information technology --- Intellectual capital --- Organizational learning --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/General --- Knowledge management --- Information commons

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Information commons --- Academic libraries --- College libraries --- Libraries, University and college --- University libraries --- Libraries --- Libraries and colleges --- Public libraries --- Commons, Information --- Commons, Learning --- Learning commons --- Space utilization --- Services to colleges and universities

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Knowledge commons are the subject of enormous recent interest and enthusiasm with respect to policy making about innovation, creative production, and intellectual property. This book argues that policy making should be based on evidence and on deeper understanding of what makes commons institutions tick. Scholars of the natural environment have developed successful methods for studying commons arrangements systematically and in detail. The book borrows from them and proposes a framework for studying knowledge commons that is adapted to the unique attributes of knowledge and information.

Information commons --- Knowledge management --- Information networks --- Communities --- Social Sciences --- Library & Information Science --- Community --- Social groups --- Automated information networks --- Networks, Information --- Information services --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Management of knowledge assets --- Management --- Information technology --- Intellectual capital --- Organizational learning --- Commons, Information --- Commons, Learning --- Learning commons --- Information commons. --- Knowledge management. --- Information networks. --- Communities.

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"Explores whether, for whom, and under what circumstances the free, networked, public sharing of ICT resources contributes to positive social change"--

Information commons. --- Information society. --- Open source software. --- Information technology --- Economic development. --- Economic aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Free software (Open source software) --- Open code software --- Opensource software --- Computer software --- Sociology --- Information superhighway --- Commons, Information --- Commons, Learning --- Learning commons