[sc-announce] Harvard Law School goes open access -- Science Commons blog
Donna Wentworth
dwentworth at creativecommons.org
Thu May 8 17:20:21 EDT 2008
Harvard Law School goes open access
May 8th, 2008<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/05/08/harvard-law-school-goes-open-access/>by
dwentworth
As a Berkman Center <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/>
alum<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/186>,
I'm especially excited to share the
news<http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2008/05/07_openaccess.php>that
the faculty of Harvard Law School has voted
unanimously <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4273> to implement an open
access <http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/overview.htm> mandate (full
text here <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4289>).
The Berkman Center is the wellspring of Creative Commons, and here at
Science Commons, we work to make legal scholarship open and accessible to
all <http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/oalaw/>. The decision,
which comes in the wake of the historic vote for open access by Harvard's
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, makes Harvard Law School the first law school
to enact an open access mandate.
Here, a brief round-up of commentary:
Peter Suber<http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/2008/05/harvard-law-school-joins-harvard-fas-in.html>,
open access leader: "This is not only another university OA mandate, and the
first for a law school, but another unanimous faculty vote for an OA
mandate. The unanimous faculty support makes a very good development
positively beautiful."
John Palfrey <http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2008/05/07_openaccess.php>,
the Berkman Center's executive director and newly
appointed<http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2008/04/30_palfrey.php>Vice
Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School, who
proposed the mandate to the faculty: "The acceptance of open access ensures
that our faculty's world-class scholarship is accessible today and into the
future."
Robert Darnton <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4273>,
director<http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/05.24/99-library.html>of
the Harvard University Library: "That such a renowned law school
should
support Open Access so resoundingly is a victory for the democratization of
knowledge. Far from turning its back to the outside world, the HLS is
sharing its intellectual wealth."
Tim Armstrong<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/05/07/harvard-law-faculty-commits-to-open-access-to-scholarship/>,
a former Berkman fellow and current Assistant Professor of Law at the
University
of Cincinnati College of Law <http://www.law.uc.edu/>: "As John
Willinsky<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Willinsky>has
explained <http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/457>, open access is a force multiplier
for scholarship: it correlates with increased influence (as measured by
citations) and broader scholarly impact as compared with work published only
in closed or proprietary fora."
Gene Koo<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vvvv/2008/05/07/harvard-votes-yes-to-open-access-scholarship/>,
a Berkman fellow and Director of Online Training at Legal Aid
University<http://www.legalaiduniversity.org/>:
"[Legal] scholarship has the potential to leap forward by large bounds with
policies like Harvard's in place."
We agree with David
Weinberger<http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/05/07/harvard-law-goes-open-access/>:
Yay! Congratulations to everyone involved.
................
Donna Wentworth
Communications Specialist
Science Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
dwentworth at creativecommons.org <kaitlin at creativecommons.org>
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