Background Reading
The round table discussed the generation, dissemination and retrieval of academic knowledge. However this process took place within the context of various academies - universities, research institutes, private and public academies. For this reason you may like to read "The Future of the Academy" Academy", the report of a meeting held in Pari, September 2000.
Other papers of interest include
Digital Publishing, Academic Presses and the Nexus Network Journal: Kim Williams
Letter of Frustration from an Academic Author
Like electricity, the Web is a liberator that's here to stay: John Naughton
The Internet: A Linguistic Revolution, Professor David Crystal
E-mail delivers scientific papers to poor nations Katie Mantell
The Soul of a New University by Arthur Levine, President of Teachers
College, Columbia University
The New University by David L. Kirp, Goodman School of Public Policy, UCLA
Other articles of interest:
The Scholarly Communication Institute, will study the way new technologies can improve scholarly communication. http://www.clir.org/pubs/press/2002_mellsci.html
Copyleft vs. Copyright: A Marxist Critique Johan Soderberg
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_3/soderberg/
Current legal battles involving copyright and the Internet
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/13/copy_protection/index.html
The impact of the Internet on the English language and communications - contains an interesting interview with David Crystal
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1235000/1235945.stm
Authors and Authority: Umberto Eco
http://www.text-e.org:/conf/index.cfm?fa=printable&ConfText_ID=11
In Oldenburg’s Long Shadow: Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the Control of Scientific Publishing Jean-Claude Guédon
http://www.arl.org/arl/proceedings/138/guedon.html
Inventing E-Regulation in the US, EU and East Asia: Conflicting Social Visions of the Internet & the Information Society, Shalini Venturelli
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cs.CY/0110002
From the Information Economy to the Creative Economy, Shalini Venturelli
http://www.culturalpolicy.org/pdf/venturelli.pdf
DIGITAL COPYRIGHT TREATY GOES INTO EFFECT
A landmark international copyright treaty, negotiated by the World Intellectual Property Organization in 1996, takes effect today amid controversy over whether tougher copyright rules encourage or inhibit intellectual creativity in cyberspace. http://news.ft.com/news/industries/infotechnology
The Economy of Ideas, John Perry Barlow, WIRED, Article, March 1994,
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/economy.ideas_pr.html
Against Intellectual Property, Brian Martin, Philosophy and Social Action,
Vol.21, No. 3, July-September 1995, pp7-22,
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/95psa.html
Cooking pot markets: an economic model for the trade in free goods and services on the Internet, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh,
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_3/ghosh/
First Monday and the Evolution of Electronic Journals, Edward J. Valauskas,
The Journal of Electronic Publishing, September 1997, Volume 3, Issue 1,
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-01/FirstMonday.html