I am just beginning to delve into legal issues related to institutional repositories.
See, for example: Legal Issues for Institutional Repositories: An Overview (PowerPoint via Google).
Obviously, I have more research and work to do in this area before being able to put something intelligent together.
Is virtual lawyering the future?
An interesting paragraph from an article dealing with the idea of "Good Enough" -- services or products that may not have all the "bells and whistles" of their more-expensive competitors, but do enough at the right price to be runaway successes: It turns out to be a remarkably efficient way of offering what Granat calls legal transaction services -- tasks that are document intensive. For everything from wills to adoptions to shareholder agreements, elawyering has numerous advantages.
Can a teaching-focused law school fit into a public research university?
UCSD is considering merging or partnering with California Western School of Law, but some are concerned that Cal Western is too focused on teaching to fit into a research university.
A guide for non-lawyers researching legal problems
Cocky Law Blawg brings us this note: The Legal Information Services to the Public (LISP) Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) just completed its latest version of How to Research a Legal Problem: A Guide for Non-Lawyers. It’s available in PDF and Word formats from the LISP website.
Should mandatory open access be extended to all federally funded research?
A consortium of research institutions is lobbying to extend the NIH open-access policy to other federally funded research.
When is print better than online?
Cost is a major element of this: online access to a treatise (a compendium of legal research, opinion, etc. that's an extremely useful resource for understanding an area of the law before diving into more specifics) can run to around $825 an hour, while the print version of the same treatise costs $499 per year (or less, if you don't mind out-of-date treatises). But it's more than simply the straight-up cost of access - print research can be more effective and time-efficient for many tasks.
Post title: Legal Issues with Institutional Repositories
Authored by: krisnelson
Date posted: Apr 19, 2007
Categorized as: education • law • library • technology
Tagged with: research
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