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RE: OA in Legal Publishing: Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship
This isn't about OA, it's about online(-only) publication
Sally Morris
Email: sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk
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Sent: 24 February 2009 22:51
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Subject: OA in Legal Publishing: Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal
Scholarship
Listmembers may be interested in the "Durham Statement on Open
Access to Legal Scholarship,"
http://legalresearchplus.com/2009/02/20/durham-statement-on-open-access-to-legal-scholarship/
issued earlier this month, and signed by the directors of many of
the largest U.S. law libraries. Here is the paragraph
identifying the "objective" of the statement:
Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship 11 February
2009
Objective: The undersigned believe that it will benefit legal
education and improve the dissemination of legal scholarly
information if law schools commit to making the legal scholarship
they publish available in stable, open, digital formats in place
of print. To accomplish this end, law schools should commit to
making agreed-upon stable, open, digital formats, rather than
print, the preferable formats for legal scholarship. If stable,
open, digital formats are available, law schools should stop
publishing law journals in print and law libraries should stop
acquiring print law journals. We believe that, in addition to
their other benefits, these changes are particularly timely in
light of the financial challenges currently facing many law
schools.
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Robert C. Richards, Jr., J.D.*, M.S.L.I.S., M.A.
Philadelphia, PA
richards1000@comcast.net
http://home.comcast.net/~richards1000/LegalInformationSystemsBibliography.htm
* Member New York bar, retired status.
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