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A Framework For Analysing The Microbiological Commons, Charlotte Hess, Elinor Ostrom
A Framework For Analysing The Microbiological Commons, Charlotte Hess, Elinor Ostrom
Charlotte Hess
In an earlier article, “Ideas, artifacts and facilities: information as a common-pool resource”, we examined the role of collective action in building robust knowledge commons and in circumventing trends of enclosure and privatisation of the intellectual public domain. Our analysis suggested that collective action and new institutional design play as large a part in shaping the collection, distribution, and preservation of scholarly information as do legal restrictions and market forces. The microbiological commons extends well beyond the boundaries of e-prints and other full-text research documents that are the focus of the open access movement. It includes the contents of scientific …