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For those countries throwing off the yoke of Western colonialism during the latter half of the twentieth century, the founding of new universities represented a particularly promising assertion of modern nationhood. Certainly, many of these communities and cultures had long-standing scholarly traditions that dated back well before the spread of European imperialism. Across the Islamic world, for example, scholarly libraries and colleges, such as the magnificent Alhambra in Granada, had long been kept open to scholars from abroad (Singleton, 2004).
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Willinsky, J. (2013). Development and Open Access. In: Hébert, Y., Abdi, A.A. (eds) Critical Perspectives on International Education. Comparative and International Education, vol 15. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-906-0_26
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