Re: OA in Legal Publishing: Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship

[richards1000@comcast.net]

Sandy:

Respecting  your comment:

"P.S. One hears that some of the most authoritative and important 
new legal publishing in short form is now being done by leading 
scholars through blogs. Are librarians thinking about ways of 
preserving this elusive literature?"

Thanks for raising this important issue, which I believe Ann 
Okerson also raised respecting general academic libraries, at her 
ALA Midwinter presentation,

http://wikis.ala.org/midwinter2009/index.php/ALCTS#Costs_of_Continuing_Resources_in_Libraries_Interest_Group

Yes, this topic is currently being discussed by the special 
interest sections of the American Association of Law Libraries 
(AALL), and I hope to have more detail shortly.

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richards1000@comcast.net
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* Member New York bar, retired status.
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