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

[richards1000@comcast.net]

Colleagues:

Senor Associate Dean Richard Danner of Duke University School of 
Law, and a co-author of the Durham Statement, has given me his 
permission to forward the following message respecting the 
meaning of "open access" in the Durham Statement:

Dear Rob:

I have consulted with my colleagues from the group which drafted 
and issued the statement, and I believe that we are in general 
agreement with the definition of open access in the Budapest Open 
Access Initiative (BOAI) which I quoted the other day, and the 
perspective on definitions of OA suggested in the accompanying 
quote from John Willinsky:

"Only by working with a loosely defined approach to open access 
archiving and publishing can one begin to capture the variety of 
and variation in the means that are now being used to increase 
access to scholarship and research."

Our statement is primarily addressed to our institutions: 
faculty, deans, and students. It is meant to be aspirational. How 
it will be implemented will depend on local factors.

I hope that this is helpful.  If you would like more information, 
you might wish to look at the interview on the Duke web site at: 
http://www.law.duke.edu/news/story?id=3053&u=11 .  If I can be of 
further help, let me know.

Richard A. Danner
Rufty Research Professor of Law
Senior Associate Dean for Information Services
Duke University School of Law
Durham NC 27708-0361
zad@law.duke.edu
http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/danner

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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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