The Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation was created by the editors of the McGill Law Journal and published by Carswell Thomson....Originally published in 1986 and now in its sixth edition, the Guide continues to be available only in print and for a price. This is in stark contrast to the open access policy that the McGill Law Journal recently announced with respect to all of the back issues of the Journal which are now being made available online in pdf format, free of charge....
The copyright in the Canadian Guide to Legal Citation is held by the Trustees of the McGill Law Journal. Carswell Thomson has [only] the print publication rights....
Providing open access to the McGill Guide is inevitable because it is in the public interest. Until that happens, the decision makers at McGill need to be encouraged to apply the same principle of open access to the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation that it now does with the McGill Law Journal itself.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/11/2008 12:06:00 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.
