York University Libraries will celebrate International Open Access Week from Oct. 20 to 26. Open Access Week is a global campaign that promotes open access as an ideal for the dissemination of scholarship and research. On Oct. 24, to reflect this year’s theme “Generation Open,” the libraries will host a movie screening and talk by Carys Craig, […]
An exciting new initiative in open access to law debuted today with the publication of the first issue of the Journal of Open Access to Law. A peer-reviewed academic journal, the journal is pretty much as advertised in the title, as its ambit "is to promote international research on the topic of open access to law" […]
Open access is an important thing to think about whenever you are creating or consuming scholarship. And it’s not important just because it happens to be Open Access Week. Richard A. Danner talks about the importance of legal scholarship in his article, “Open Access to Legal Scholarship: Dropping the Barriers to Discourse and Dialogue.” “Legal […]
I had the opportunity to speak about linked data at the Canadian Legal Information Institute's Law, Government and Open Data Conference & Hackathon in Ottawa this past weekend. My presentation was entitled Linked Data and Canadian Legal Resources and my slides and speaking notes are available on York Space. It has a fantastic event which began […]
CanLII (Canadian Legal Information Institute), Canada's foremost resource of freely-available legal information, and Lancaster House, the respected Canadian law publisher specializing in labour and employment law, have announced their co-operation in a joint project to enhance open access to legal commentary in Canada. For the first time, an electronic text authored by experts in the […]
As part of the Scholarly Communication Series there will be a presentation for faculty and graduate students on Intellectual Property and Open Access. This is a co-presentation of the York University Libraries, the Faculty of Graduate Studies, and the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies. Featured speakers include: Breanne Whitwell, Research Officer in the […]
Following the Senate Committee meeting this afternoon there will be a discussion of Open Access facilitated by Professor and Associate Dean of Research Lisa Philips of the Osgoode Hall Law School. This is part of the Report to Senate by the Executive Committee: "Senate Executive has extended an invitation to Professor Lisa Philipps of Osgoode […]
Charles W. Bailey, Jr. has issued another useful bibliography in his ongoing series of bibliographies relating to digital scholarship. The latest addition is the Open Access Journals Bibliography. "This bibliography presents selected English-language scholarly works that are useful in understanding open access journals. It does not cover works about e-prints or works that include open […]
Issues related to institutional repositories and the open access of scholarly work continue to gain momentum especially in academic environments in North America. So it's interesting to consider research that falls outside of this usual scope such as the "Baseline Report" recently made available by the Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER) project. […]
'Harvard's open publishing policy and the outlook for law schools' is a short piece written by Gene Coo from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. He takes a look at law review publishing and the implications of Harvard's recent commitment to open access. "The openness of law schools' journals is […]