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Momentum Builds for PACER Reform and Free Public Access to Court Records

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On February 13, 2019, Rep. Collins (R-GA) introduced the Electronic Court Records Reform Act (H.R. 1164) to enable free public access to federal court records in machine-readable form via PACER. The bill is short and sweet (text available here), enjoys bipartisan support from co-sponsors Rep. Quigley (D-IL), Rep. Roe (R-TN) and Rep. Johnson (D-GA) and has earned the …

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Caselaw Access Project Scanning Now Complete

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Post by Kim Dulin and Meg Kribble We at the Harvard Law School Library are thrilled to report a major milestone achieved in our our Caselaw Access Project (CAP), which will make U.S. state and federal court decisions freely accessible online. Last Friday at 3:29pm, we finished scanning the final volume of material. Since CAP launched in 2013, we have scanned 39,796 …

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Celebrate Fair Use Week!

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The third annual Fair Use Week, sponsored by the Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC), is here! Wait, what is Fair Use? To paraphrase from the Harvard University OGC Copyright website, Fair Use is the right to use a copyrighted work under certain conditions without permission of the copyright owner to prevent a rigid application of copyright …

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Brown Bag: PACER Campaign with Carl Malamud

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Come hear about the Yo.YourHonor.Org campaign! Brown Bag with cookies Monday, April 6th, 12:30-1:30pm Lewis 214B, Harvard Law School (maps) Carl Malamud is visiting the Library to talk about the Yo.YourHonor.Org campaign currently underway to make U.S. District Court documents on the PACER system much more broadly available. Carl Malamud is the founder of Public.Resource.Org, a non-profit that …

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Casebooks and the First Sale Doctrine

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What’s going on with casebooks and the first sale doctrine? If you’re a law professor or student, you may have heard rumblings last week about a new program from Wolters Kluwer’s AspenLaw called the Connected Casebook. Under the initial proposal, print casebooks would come with long term access to a digital edition with note taking and highlighting tools. In exchange, students would be required …

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852 RARE : Just Launched: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Digital Suite!

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The Harvard Law School Library is pleased to announce the release of the Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Digital Suite.  The Suite is comprised of five manuscript collections as well as three image groups. Every attempt was made to digitize as much of each collection as possible and only a small percentage of the Library’s Holmes primary material that …

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Interested in getting published?

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Thinking about trying to publish in a law journal? Many law students have done it! Join the library in exploring the tools you can use to make the process of submitting an article for publication easier, including: •how to identify potential journals and measure their impact/quality •how to use ExpressO and other means to submit your manuscript •how …

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More Open Access to Law from Justia

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New daily opinion summary alerts service In March, Justia launched a fabulous daily opinion summary service where you can receive alerts by jurisdiction or legal practice area.  http://law.justia.com/subscriptions    Recently,  it announced that along with the United State Supreme Court and all Federal Appellate Courts, the service now includes all 50 states and over 60 legal practice areas/subjects.   You …

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An Interview with Jeff Dunn, creator of HLS Journals

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Last year, you might have noticed some major changes to the websites for our law journals with the launch of HLS Journals, a great new platform for looking at aggregated content for most HLS journals.   We recently interviewed Jeff Dunn (Web Coordinator for the Dean of Students Office), responsible for the care and maintenance of the law …

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