A Response to The Durham Statement Two Years Later

"Two weaknesses in The Durham Statement Two Years Later: Open Access in the Law School Journal Environment stimulate my response to that article. One is the continuation of the Durham Statement’s call for “an end to print publication of law journals.” If academic law journals are worth preserving for future readers, they must be kept in paper regardless of the existence of electronic availability. The second is that the three steps called for at the end of the article do not sufficiently consider the national and international actors and developments that will determine the future of digital libraries. Law librarians should enter the mainstream rather than attempt to set up separate processes in this area in which we have no special expertise."