Michel-Adrien Sheppard, CanLII Survey, Library Boy, September 9, 2008.
According to a survey earlier this year commissioned by the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII), the open access legal database is the electronic legal resource most frequently used by lawyers across Canada.
The percentage of those surveyed who used the following resources at least one a week:
CanLII - 39%
Provincial sites for legislation – 34%
Commercial services – between 17% and 29%
Various secondary material sources – 29%
Courts’ websites – 21%
Library services - 15%
The actual text of the survey and the methodology are not available on the CanLII website so caution is advisable. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 9/12/2008 10:24:00 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.