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The Open Access Advantage For American Law Reviews, Carol A. Watson, James M. Donovan, Caroline Osborne
The Open Access Advantage For American Law Reviews, Carol A. Watson, James M. Donovan, Caroline Osborne
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Open access legal scholarship generates a prolific discussion, but few empirical details have been available to describe the scholarly impact of providing unrestricted access to law review articles. The present project ills this gap with specific findings on what authors and law reviews can expect.
Articles available in open access formats enjoy an advantage in citation by subsequent law review works of 53%. For every two citations an article would otherwise receive, it can expect a third when made freely available on the Internet. This benefit is not uniformly spread through the law school tiers. Higher tier journals experience a …