Open Sesame » VoxPopuLII

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-05-26

Summary:

“For some time, Open Access has been a sort of gnat in my office, bugging me periodically, but always just on the edge of getting my full attention. Perhaps due in large part to the fact that our journals simply cost much less than those in other disciplines, law librarians have been able to stay mostly on the outside of this discussion. The marketing benefits of building institutional repositories are just as strong for law schools as other disciplines, however, and many law schools are now boarding the train — with librarians conducting. If you’re new to the discussion of Open Access in general, I suggest Peter Suber’s Open Access Overview for an excellent introduction. This piece is meant to briefly summarize the goals, progress, and future of OA as it applies (mostly) to legal scholarship...”

Link:

http://blog.law.cornell.edu/voxpop/2012/05/23/open-sesame/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.gold oa.pubmed oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.licensing oa.comment oa.government oa.libass oa.mandates oa.usa oa.frpaa oa.legislation oa.rwa oa.nih oa.green oa.copyright oa.libraries oa.plos oa.harvesting oa.ir oa.repositories.disciplinary oa.interoperability oa.metadata oa.costs oa.librarians oa.sparc oa.prices oa.fees oa.gratis oa.harvard.u oa.budgets oa.indexing oa.arl oa.definitions oa.ssrn oa.sherpa.romeo oa.libre oa.policies oa.journals oa.repositories

Date tagged:

05/26/2012, 12:13

Date published:

05/26/2012, 08:13