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Redefining Open Access For The Legal Information Market, James G. Milles
Redefining Open Access For The Legal Information Market, James G. Milles
James G. Milles
The open access movement in legal scholarship, inasmuch as it is driven within the law library community over concerns about the rising cost of legal information, fails to address - and in fact diverts resources from - the real problem facing law libraries today: the soaring costs of nonscholarly, commercially published, practitioner-oriented legal publications. The current system of legal scholarly publishing - in student-edited journals and without meaningful peer review - does not face the pressures to increase prices common in the science and health disciplines. One solution to this problem is for law schools to redirect some of their …
Worldwide Access To Foreign Law: International & National Developments Toward Digital Authentication, Claire M. Germain
Worldwide Access To Foreign Law: International & National Developments Toward Digital Authentication, Claire M. Germain
Claire Germain
This paper was originally presented at the World Library & Information Congress of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Helsinki, Finland, August 2012, as part of a panel on Promoting Global Access to Law: Developing an Open Access Index for Official Authenticated Legal Information, Part II. Europe. http://conference.ifla.org/ifla78/programme-and-proceedings-day/2012-08-14. It focuses on worldwide access to the official word of the law, specifically to statutes, codes, regulations, court decisions, and international agreements in different foreign countries. The importance of improving global access to foreign law was highlighted at a 2012 joint European Commission/Hague Conference on Private International Law, with …
Welcome To Dignity, Donna M. Hughes Dr.
Academic Authors And Copyright, Laura Quilter
Towards Voluntary Interoperable Open Access Licenses For The Global Earth Observation System Of Systems (Geoss), Harlan Onsrud, James Campbell, Bastiaan Van Loenen
Towards Voluntary Interoperable Open Access Licenses For The Global Earth Observation System Of Systems (Geoss), Harlan Onsrud, James Campbell, Bastiaan Van Loenen
Harlan J Onsrud
Access to earth observation data has become critically important for the wellbeing of society. A major impediment to achieving widespread sharing of earth observation data is lack of an operational web-wide system that is transparent and consistent in allowing users to legally access and use the earth observations of others without seeking permission from data contributors or investigating terms of usage on a case-by-case basis. This article explores approaches to supplying a license-based system to overcome this impediment in the context of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems. It discusses the benefits and drawbacks of the explored approaches and …
Open Access I Praktiken, Gunilla Wiklund
Scholarly Journals And The Open Access Conundrum, Colin B. Sakumoto
Scholarly Journals And The Open Access Conundrum, Colin B. Sakumoto
Colin B Sakumoto
This paper examines the desirability and feasibility of open access scholarly journals with particular emphasis on the parties shaping the production of these journals. In examining how the current publishing model will shape the implementation of open access publishing, analysis of the obstacles likely to hinder implementation is given in depth. Finally, a number of measures are suggested to help build the momentum needed to one day realize a widespread open access publishing model.
Revitalizing Essential Facilities, Spencer Weber Waller, Brett Frischmann
Revitalizing Essential Facilities, Spencer Weber Waller, Brett Frischmann
Brett Frischmann
Revitalizing Essential Facilities
Spencer Weber Waller
Brett Frischmann
Our article examines an age old debate about the nature and limits of property rights and the current manifestation of this debate in antitrust law. Many areas of law struggle to balance private property rightsCmost importantly, the right of exclusionCwith the public=s right of access to essential resources. What is the best way to manage resources that provide both public and private benefits? For years, academics and law makers have debated this question with respect to transportation systems, communication networks, scientific research, and a variety of other "infrastructural" resources. Many press for …
Revitalizing Essential Facilities, Spencer Weber Waller, Brett Frischmann
Revitalizing Essential Facilities, Spencer Weber Waller, Brett Frischmann
Spencer Weber Waller
Revitalizing Essential Facilities
Spencer Weber Waller
Brett Frischmann
Our article examines an age old debate about the nature and limits of property rights and the current manifestation of this debate in antitrust law. Many areas of law struggle to balance private property rightsCmost importantly, the right of exclusionCwith the public=s right of access to essential resources. What is the best way to manage resources that provide both public and private benefits? For years, academics and law makers have debated this question with respect to transportation systems, communication networks, scientific research, and a variety of other "infrastructural" resources. Many press for …
Ssrn Considered Harmful, James Grimmelmann
Ssrn Considered Harmful, James Grimmelmann
James Grimmelmann
The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) has adopted several unfortunate policies that impair open access to scholarship. It should enable one-click download, stop requiring papers to bear SSRN watermarks, and allow authors to point readers to other download sites. If it does not reform, those who are serious about open access should not use SSRN.
Open Access, Law, Knowledge, Copyrights, Dominance And Subordination, Ann Bartow
Open Access, Law, Knowledge, Copyrights, Dominance And Subordination, Ann Bartow
Ann Bartow
The concept of open access to legal knowledge is at the surface a very appealing one. A citizenry that is well informed about the law may be more likely to comply with legal dictates and proscriptions, or at a minimum, will be aware of the consequences for not doing so. What is less apparent, however, is whether an open access approach to legal knowledge is realistically attainable without fundamental changes to the copyright laws that would recalibrate the power balance between content owners and citizens desiring access to interpretive legal resources. A truly useful application of open access principles would …
The Idea Of The Law Review: Scholarship, Prestige, And Open Access, Michael J. Madison
The Idea Of The Law Review: Scholarship, Prestige, And Open Access, Michael J. Madison
Michael J. Madison
This Essay was written as part of a Symposium on open access publishing for legal scholarship, held at Lewis & Clark Law School. It makes the claim that “open access” publishing models will succeed, or not, to the extent that they account for the existing “economy of prestige” that drives law reviews and legal scholarship. What may seem like a lot of uncharitable commentary is intended instead as an expression of guarded optimism: Imaginative reuse of some existing tools of scholarly publishing (even by some marginalized members of the prestige economy – or perhaps especially by them) may facilitate the …
The Movement For Open Access Law, Michael W. Carroll
The Movement For Open Access Law, Michael W. Carroll
Michael W. Carroll
My claim in this contribution to this important symposium is that the law and legal scholarship should be freely available on the Internet, and copyright law and licensing should facilitate achievement of this goal. This claim reflects the combined aims of those who support the movement for open access law. This nascent movement is a natural extension of the well-developed movement for free access to primary legal materials and the equally well-developed open access movement, which seeks to make all scholarly journal articles freely available on the Internet. Legal scholars have only general familiarity with the first movement and very …
Open Science: Open Source Licences In Scientific Research, Andres Guadamuz
Open Science: Open Source Licences In Scientific Research, Andres Guadamuz
Andres Guadamuz
sometime even commercially successful systems. Amongst these models, one of the most interesting licenses is that offered by so-called copyleft licenses, which are licenses that allow software to be transferred with the insurance that the source code will remain open, with the caveat that anyone who redistributes the software, with or without changes, must pass along the freedom to further copy and change it.
However, software development is not the only area in which this licensing model could apply. The viral nature of copyleft licenses has generated a considerable amount of interest in circles that transcend software development. The idea …
The Master's Tools V. The Master's House: Creative Commons V. Copyright, Severine Dusollier
The Master's Tools V. The Master's House: Creative Commons V. Copyright, Severine Dusollier
Severine Dusollier
No abstract provided.
Open Source And Copyleft: Authorship Reconsidered ?, Severine Dusollier
Open Source And Copyleft: Authorship Reconsidered ?, Severine Dusollier
Severine Dusollier
No abstract provided.