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Open Access Without Open Access Values: The State Of Free And Open Access To Law Reviews, John R. Beatty
Open Access Without Open Access Values: The State Of Free And Open Access To Law Reviews, John R. Beatty
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This study examines 648 currently published law journals to determine the amount of freely available content and whether the journals have adopted open access behaviors. Although most of the journals have volumes available online for free, the usual hallmarks of open access, including open licenses and clear reuse policies, are absent.
Citation Databases For Legal Scholarship, John R. Beatty
Citation Databases For Legal Scholarship, John R. Beatty
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Traditional citation sources, such as Web of Science, index limited numbers of law journals. Consequently, although not designed for generating scholarship citation metrics, many law scholarship citation studies use law-specific databases like Westlaw or LexisNexis to gather citations. This article compares citation metrics derived from Web of Science and Westlaw to metrics derived from Google Scholar and HeinOnline’s citation tools. The study finds that HeinOnline and Westlaw generate higher metrics than Web of Science, and Google Scholar generates higher metrics than both. However, metrics from all four sources are highly correlated, so rankings generated from any may be very similar.
Revisiting The Open Access Citation Advantage For Legal Scholarship, John R. Beatty
Revisiting The Open Access Citation Advantage For Legal Scholarship, John R. Beatty
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Citation studies in law have shown a significant citation advantage for open access legal scholarship. A recent cross-disciplinary study, however, gave opposite results. This article shows how methodology, including the definition of open access and the source of the citation data, can affect the results of open access citation studies.