Today we introduce the latest addition to the law library web site - Open Access Legal Scholarship - a resource for those who are interested in learning more about open access scholarship and publishing, in both law and other fields. It has been created by Professor Joseph Miller in conjunction with the Lewis and Clark Law School 2006 Spring Symposium, Open Access Publishing and the Future of Legal Scholarship [PS: held on March 10]. Open Access has been briefly described as “the electronic publication of scholarly work that is available for free without copyright constraints other than attribution.” Paul George, Members’ Briefing: The Future Gate to Scholarly Legal Information, AALL Spectrum (April 2005). See the Open Access introduction for an expanded discussion. Our own law reviews have provided open access to their most recent issues, with Environmental Law publishing the full-text of Symposium: Ballot Measure 37: The Redrafting of Oregon’s Landscape (v.36, n.1 2006), and Lewis & Clark Law Review with Paper Symposium: Federalism After Gonzales v. Raich (v. 9, n.4 2006). Included in our new Open Access Legal Scholarship section are: [1] An Introduction to Open Access, [2] Blogs, [3] Core Documents, [4] Open Access Journals, [5] Projects and Gateways, [6] Self-Archive Repositories.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/11/2006 01:39:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
