"Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research focuses on the connection between openness and inclusion in global development. It brings together the latest research that cuts across a wide variety of political, economic, and social arenas - from governance to education to...

"This book addresses the question of whether or not information has become a commodity and examines how infonomics and the "business of free" have changed the way companies must create and market their information to make it most accessible and valuable for their consumers"--Provided by publisher.

Das Modethema "Shareconomy", das 2013 zum Motto der CeBIT erklärt worden ist, stellt seit langem das Grundprinzip jeder Wissenschaft dar und wird von Bibliotheken in Reinkultur praktiziert: Bücher und Zeitschriften werden einmal beschafft und von vielen genutzt. Das Aufkommen elektronischer...

1. Introduction -- 2. Profit from Openness: A Critique of a New Business Model -- 3. Profiting from Free and Open Source Software -- 4.Profiting from Open Access Publishing -- 5. Profiting from Open Audiovisual Content -- 6. Profiting from Massive Open Online Courses. - 7. Conclusions and...