[sc-announce] "Harvard University Press releases first OA journal" - Science Commons blog
Kaitlin Thaney
kaitlin at creativecommons.org
Tue Feb 3 15:27:54 EST 2009
Harvard University Press releases first OA journal
February 3rd, 2009<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2009/02/03/harvard-university-press-releases-first-oa-journal/>by
Kaitlin Thaney
At noon today, Harvard University Press <http://www.hup.harvard.edu/>, in
partnership with the John M. Olin Center at Harvard Law
School<http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center/>released its
first Open Access (OA) Journal.
*The Journal of Legal Analysis
<https://ojs.hup.harvard.edu/index.php/jla>*marks HUP's first major
foray into CC-licensed material, with all content
freely available on the Web at the time of publication under a
CC-BY-NC-SA<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/>license.
>From their press release:
"With the emergence of online journal publishing and Open Access, the cost
of entry into journal publishing is lower than it's ever been," says [HUP's
Editor-in-Chief Michael] Fisher. "With an online OA journal a publisher does
not have to spend start-up money recruiting subscribers, does not need a
subscription-fulfillment operation, does not even have to print the journal.
The fact that we can work with the Law School to jointly further the
University's scholarly mission while spending less in the current economic
climate is very, very exciting for us." [...]
This is the first time in three decades that Harvard University Press has
published an academic journal. Online publishing models offered a way back
into this arena, with lowered costs and higher dissemination of high-quality
content, reasons stated to be aligned with the University's overall mission.
OA advocate Stuart Shieber, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and
current Faculty Director of the Office for Scholarly Communication at
Harvard, stated in the press release:
"Harvard University Press's reentry into journal publishing through the/
Journal of Legal Analysis/ represents an exciting development in the
burgeoning world of Open Access journal publishing. HUP's efforts are to be
applauded for both their quality and their accessibility."
Kudos to HUP and the Olin Center for choosing to make their content more
open with a CC license. The Journal also joins a host of other
journals<http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/oalaw/oalawjournals/>under
our Open
Access Law Program <http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/oalaw/>.
For more information about the Open Access Law Program, click
here<http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/oalaw/>
.
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