It is remarkable to see how within two decades, technology has dramatically changed the way we communicate information, making research more freely available to the broader public, and in doing so giving rise to new opportunities and challenges for publishing. In Building Equitable Access to Knowledge Through Open Access Repositories, Koutras illustrates how the so-called knowledge revolution has bestowed huge problems for copyright laws and intellectual protection. Yet as he argues, commercial publishers and university libraries can co-exist by collaboratively supporting open access repositories that offer the widest possible access to knowledge promoting greater social inclusion for a more fair and just global society. Koutras uses a wide variety of frameworks—including legal, philosophical, historical, economic, and ethical—to convince the reader of the enormous benefits that can be achieved through free equitable access to knowledge. After a productive analysis of how our digital landscape can extend access to information, which in turn helps construct knowledge economies for future sustainability and the safeguarding of human rights, this book takes the reader through the history of copyright, to explain how open access can be considered an infringement on IP rights, working against commercial profits and public expenses, and discouraging investments in technology. But contrary to this environment, Koutras illustrates optimistically how we can balance open access with copyright to facilitate a more efficient and equitable economy, and one where principles of corporate social responsibility can be central to the creation, preservation and sharing of research data through digital resources. While writing Building Equitable Access to Knowledge Through Open Access Repositories, Koutras could not have anticipated COVID-19, but current events demonstrate the significant benefits as well as continuing drawbacks of moving to open access. The rapid development and testing of COVID-19 remedies have

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Nikos Koutras：通过开放获取知识库建立公平的知识获取

令人惊奇的是，在二十年内，技术如何极大地改变了我们交流信息的方式，使更广泛的公众可以更自由地获得研究，并由此为出版带来新的机遇和挑战。在通过开放获取知识库建立公平的知识获取中，Koutras 说明了所谓的知识革命如何给版权法和知识产权保护带来了巨大的问题。然而，正如他认为的那样，商业出版商和大学图书馆可以通过合作支持开放获取知识库来共存，这些知识库提供尽可能广泛的知识获取途径，促进更大的社会包容，以建立一个更加公平和公正的全球社会。Koutras 使用了各种各样的框架——包括法律、哲学、历史、经济、和道德——让读者相信通过免费、公平地获取知识可以实现的巨大利益。在对我们的数字景观如何扩展对信息的访问进行了富有成效的分析之后，这反过来又有助于构建知识经济以实现未来的可持续性和保护人权，本书将带领读者了解版权的历史，解释开放获取如何成为可能被视为侵犯知识产权，损害商业利润和公共开支，并阻碍对技术的投资。但与这种环境相反，Koutras 乐观地说明了我们如何平衡开放获取与版权以促进更高效和公平的经济，并且企业社会责任原则可以成为创造的核心，通过数字资源保存和共享研究数据。在撰写通过开放获取知识库建立公平的知识获取时，Koutras 无法预料到 COVID-19，但当前事件证明了转向开放获取的重大好处以及持续存在的缺点。COVID-19 疗法的快速开发和测试已经