Open Access Legal Scholarship at Lewis & Clark
March 10th, 2006Today we introduce the latest addition to the law library web site — Open Access Legal Scholarship — a resource for those who are interested in learning more about open access scholarship and publishing, in both law and other fields.
It has been created by Professor Joseph Miller in conjunction with the Lewis and Clark Law School 2006 Spring Symposium, Open Access Publishing and the Future of Legal Scholarship.
Open Access has been briefly described as “the electronic publication of scholarly work that is available for free without copyright constraints other than attribution.” Paul George, Members’ Briefing: The Future Gate to Scholarly Legal Information, AALL Spectrum (April 2005). See the Open Access introduction for an expanded discussion.
Our own law reviews have provided open access to their most recent issues, with Environmental Law publishing the full-text of Symposium: Ballot Measure 37: The Redrafting of Oregon’s Landscape (v.36, n.1 2006), and Lewis & Clark Law Review with Paper Symposium: Federalism After Gonzales v. Raich (v. 9, n.4 2006).
Included in our new Open Access Legal Scholarship section are:
- An Introduction to Open Access
- Blogs
- Core Documents
- Open Access Journals
- Projects and Gateways
- Self-Archive Repositories
Thanks and all credit to Professor Miller for providing this valuable resource. We intend to update these pages with the latest information as open access to legal scholarship continues to grow as a phenomenon and, we hope, as a standard.
