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Open Access: Good For Readers, Authors, And Journals, James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson
Open Access: Good For Readers, Authors, And Journals, James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson
James M. Donovan
Readers, authors, and even law journal publishers will all achieve their different but related interests by adopting open access principles. Readers of every kind will have more efficient access to the materials they need to pursue their intellectual and informational goals; authors will see their works read and cited by a broader audience; and law reviews and journals can raise their own profiles without injuring their revenue streams from fee-based sources. Open access works for everyone, and is the future of information creation and distribution.
Institutional Repositories: A Plethora Of Possibilities, Carol A. Watson, James M. Donovan
Institutional Repositories: A Plethora Of Possibilities, Carol A. Watson, James M. Donovan
James M. Donovan
The law library can be a major contributing partner to the success of its law school by establishing a digital repository to preserve and promote the institution's intellectual memory. Today's law school repositories have matured to include many more types of materials than simply faculty law review and journal articles. Librarians are ideally poised to capture, organize and preserve their institution's history in this new and powerful showcase.
Citation Advantage Of Open Access Legal Scholarship, James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson
Citation Advantage Of Open Access Legal Scholarship, James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson
James M. Donovan
In this study focusing on the impact of open access on legal scholarship, the authors examine open access articles from three journals at the University of Georgia School of Law and confirm that legal scholarship freely available via open access improves an article’s research impact. Open access legal scholarship—which today appears to account for almost half of the output of law faculties—can expect to receive fifty-eight percent more citations than non–open access writings of similar age from the same venue.