Open Access Publishing in Law
A post on the Canadian Association of Law Libraries listserv yerterday drew attention to the movement for "open access archiving" in legal publishing.
The post linked to an article entitled Open Access to Law Articles on the "Out of the Jungle" blog.
Open access archiving means that scholarly reviews allow authors to make the published work freely available on the public internet, up to and including permitting users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles.
A number of American law professors have created the "Open Access Law Program" to encourage open access archiving.
According to the article, "Already twenty-one US law reviews have adopted the Open Access Principles, or have policies that are consistent with them. Leading journals such as Animal Law, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Indiana Law Journal, Lewis & Clark Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Michigan State Law Review, New York Law School Law Review, Texas Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and Wayne Law Review have signed on, as have all of the journals published by Duke Law School and Villanova Law School."
In Canada, the University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal has adopted the open access principles for law journals.
The post linked to an article entitled Open Access to Law Articles on the "Out of the Jungle" blog.
Open access archiving means that scholarly reviews allow authors to make the published work freely available on the public internet, up to and including permitting users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles.
A number of American law professors have created the "Open Access Law Program" to encourage open access archiving.
According to the article, "Already twenty-one US law reviews have adopted the Open Access Principles, or have policies that are consistent with them. Leading journals such as Animal Law, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Indiana Law Journal, Lewis & Clark Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Michigan State Law Review, New York Law School Law Review, Texas Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and Wayne Law Review have signed on, as have all of the journals published by Duke Law School and Villanova Law School."
In Canada, the University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal has adopted the open access principles for law journals.
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