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Becoming Director: An Internal Candidate's View, Pat A. Newcombe, James M. Donovan
Becoming Director: An Internal Candidate's View, Pat A. Newcombe, James M. Donovan
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Articles reviewing the challenges of assuming a library directorship typically begin in the middle of the story. The new hire arrives from another campus to face a range of challenges. The accounts from there go on to extract a general map of the initial experiences along with helpful tools to navigate this intimidating terrain. That view, we suggest, obscures natural fault lines within the community of new directors. These divisions can fundamentally influence the initial experiences upon which the authors are offering their advice.
On such variable concerns the route by which the successful applicant has been named the new …
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.
Institutional Repositories: A Plethora Of Possibilities, Carol A. Watson, James M. Donovan
Institutional Repositories: A Plethora Of Possibilities, Carol A. Watson, James M. Donovan
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
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.