The Blogbook is a "guide to legal blogging" that offers suggestions, for example, on how to cite blog content in official documents. This is a step toward making the hundreds of legal blogs more useful to legal scholars and practicing lawyers who might want to cite them in law journals or court briefs. At the same time, it's a step toward making blogs --which are open access by default-- a more serious and useful vehicle of scholarship. For more detail, see Andrew Zangrilli's short article in the December issue of Modern Practice. (Thanks to QuickLinks.) (PS: I first wrote about scholarly blogs in FOSN for 11/9/01, and their number has grown sharply since then. See for example, this directory and this article.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/08/2003 08:46:00 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.
