Our director, John Palfrey was recently asked to comment on a response submitted in regard to one of his journal articles, The Public and the Private at the United States Border with Cyberspace in the Mississippi Law Journal. It will appear in the journal’s new online companion MISSing Sources, set to launch in September. There has been a …
If you missed Dr Kenneth Crews’ great talk at Harvard yesterday, you can still catch it a number of ways, beginning with the video: Audio only is also available. If you prefer to read, check out David Weinberger’s live blogging of the event.
Did you write a great paper for class or get a case comment published in one of the HLS journals? Now you can share it in the same open access repository that faculty use. DASH (http://dash.harvard.edu), the repository created as part of the law school’s new open access policy, has a new HLS Student Papers Series. DASH is …
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You could think of the Congressional Research Service as Congress’ RAs, and the reports that they publish are almost always very insightful and informative. However, these reports, despite being publicly funded, are often not readily available to the public. In response to this, a handful of entities such as Open CRS gather some of the reports online. Among …
Last week, a group of law library directors issued a statement about moving toward an open access regime for legal scholarship. One of the key questions raised about this statement is whether or not it’s the right time to move to online versions of legal scholarship. This question is plainly one of the important things to be considering …
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**Update: please note that we have switched the location of Peter’s talk to Harvard Hall Room 201** The Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication and the Harvard Law School Library are thrilled to welcome independent open access policy strategist Peter Suber to the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He will discuss the future of open …
In conjunction with the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business at Harvard Law School, Harvard University Press has launched its first open access journal, Journal of Legal Analysis, a peer-reviewed, faculty-edited interdisciplinary law journal. Below is a copy of its press release. For Release February 3, 2009 Contact: Mary Kate Maco, Publicity Director 617/495-4713 [email protected] …
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