A review of Peter Suber’s 2016 book, _Knowledge Unbound_ (MIT Press).
“The forty-four essays…cover a wide time period, most of them are as relevant today as they were when they were written and, where things have moved on, they serve as a record of the issues of the time….”
“The best way to test scholarship is to remove paywalls and put up one’s academic work online. Plagiarists and snobs will scoff at these suggestions. Hence Julie Thompson Klein had to write A Culture of Recognition (144–51). The histrionics regarding the value of web scholarship she documents at the Modern Language Association and the Council of the American Historical Association are worth noting. Thompson Klein’s book is the single most important book on the subject of web scholarship available now and should complement the MLA Handbook….”