Openness: Don Lamberton's model of scholarship. (1st December 2015)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Openness: Don Lamberton's model of scholarship. (1st December 2015)
- Main Title:
- Openness: Don Lamberton's model of scholarship
- Authors:
- Court, David
- Abstract:
- Abstract : Don Lamberton's research interests were broad. They centred on information and innovation, those elusive drivers of growth and change in the economy, as well as life. Information and innovation require some degree of receptiveness – openness – and Don was always open. His openness permitted me to become his student, as a mid-career practitioner in the film industry. It was, in a sense, his principal teaching. Under his tutelage, I began a reading program that led me a long way from my starting point, and taught me to question views that had seemed settled. Openness, of course, is a fundamental issue in information policy. To what extent should information be proprietary? And when should it be free? These questions were central to my research, which was about copyright and its consequences for authors. The policy tensions in copyright turn exactly on this question of degree of openness. As I studied the question, Don's example came to matter. I mean the way he personally modelled scholarship: his willingness to listen, his constant sifting, his mode of freely sharing books, data and connections. This was scholarship as openness, and it was persuasive.
- Is Part Of:
- Prometheus. Volume 33:Number 4(2015)
- Journal:
- Prometheus
- Issue:
- Volume 33:Number 4(2015)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 33, Issue 4 (2015)
- Year:
- 2015
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2015-0033-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 451
- Page End:
- 455
- Publication Date:
- 2015-12-01
- Subjects:
- Technological innovations -- Periodicals
Information science -- Economic aspects -- Periodicals
Communication -- Periodicals
Science and state -- Periodicals
Technology -- Australia -- Periodicals
303 - Journal URLs:
- http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/app/home/journal.asp?wasp=28f7f596a03146c0bb4ec558238638fe&referrer=parent&backto=searchpublicationsresults, 1, 1;homemain, 1, 1; ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cpro20/current ↗
https://www.jstor.org/journal/prometheus ↗
https://www.plutojournals.com/prometheus/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/08109028.2016.1194006 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0810-9028
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 6925.048000
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