DOI

DOI as a tool to help publishers maintain control over IP in the digital realm

The article assumes that scholarly knowledge is a commodity that requires protection and monetization. It discusses the financial risks of digital piracy and the necessity for...Read more

What assumptions are made about the relationship between knowledge, ownership, and commercialization?
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Fear of Commercial Publishers at the Advent of the WWW

This article characterizes the fear that the dominant commercial publishers felt when the World Wide Web was first launched. The author portrays the late-1990s digital publishing landscape as...Read more

How is the research and/or publishing environment characterized?
Database as Book Question SetQuerying "Open Access" (in/from Africa)

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How to Assign a DOI

Governance of DOIs

The stakeholders involved—Sun Microsystems, the International DOI Foundation, R.R. Bowker, and elite U.S. universities—reflect a closed circle of influential Western institutions. Even...Read more

How does this initiative or discourse position the role of local actors in relation to existing global knowledge infrastructures?
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Purpose of the DOI is to facilitate the management, sale, and tracking of IP

The article fundamentally equates knowledge with owned content, arguing that protecting and managing this ownership is critical for sustaining the publishing industry. Knowledge...Read more

What assumptions are made about the relationship between knowledge, ownership, and commercialization?
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