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The Open Access Advantage For American Law Reviews, James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson, Caroline Osborne
The Open Access Advantage For American Law Reviews, James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson, Caroline Osborne
James M. Donovan
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 fills 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 …
The Open Access Advantage For American Law Reviews, James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson, Caroline Osborne
The Open Access Advantage For American Law Reviews, James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson, Caroline Osborne
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
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 fills 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 …
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.
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
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
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.
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
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
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.
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.
Back Away From The Survey Monkey!, James M. Donovan
Back Away From The Survey Monkey!, James M. Donovan
James M. Donovan
In an environment of too many—and too many ill-designed—surveys, our twin aims should be to reduce the number of surveys overall and to improve the quality of those that do circulate. This burden falls on both those who distribute questionnaires—to make them as efficient as possible—and those answering—to decline to participate in any project that shows signs of unthoughtful design, thereby forcing surveyors to “up their game.” Good surveying, a difficult task in the best of circumstances, becomes even more complicated when pushed through the favored medium of the online discussion list (commonly called a listserv), a choice that can …
Current Awareness Alerts Make The Internet Revolve Around You, James M. Donovan
Current Awareness Alerts Make The Internet Revolve Around You, James M. Donovan
James M. Donovan
Shares ways for busy lawyers to utilize tech-savvy methods to receive desired news and information.
Quality Online Legal Researching -- On The Cheap!, James M. Donovan
Quality Online Legal Researching -- On The Cheap!, James M. Donovan
James M. Donovan
Summarizes issues to consider when exploring the internet for free but reliable legal resources, and offers a table of links to federal and Georgia state materials.