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Amicus Curiae Pro Bono Publico1: Open Access Online Publication at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2012

Steven Whittle
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Abstract

In this paper Steven Whittle describes recent work at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies to provide open online access to the IALS/SALS official journal Amicus Curiae and selected papers from the Institute's annual W. G. Hart Legal Workshop. It discusses some of the issues involved in a transition from print to web publication and looks at the benefits anticipated from additional web delivery.

Keywords

legal journalsfree legal informationopen access
Type
Legal Literature: Unlocking Access
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , September 2012 , pp. 189 - 197
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2012. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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Footnotes

2 Amicus Curiae Issue 25 (2000) pp. 4–7 http://journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus/article/view/1427

3 Amicus Curiae Issue 10 (1998) pp. 11–14 http://journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus/article/view/1550

4 Amicus Curiae Issue 78 (2009) pp. 24–28 http://journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus/article/view/1198

5 Amicus Curiae Issue 68 (2006) pp. 2–9 http://journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus/article/view/1137

6 Amicus Curiae Issue 85 (2011) pp. 3–5 http://journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus/article/view/1237

7 Amicus Curiae Issue 25 (2000) pp. 4–7 http://journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus/article/view/1427

8 Amicus Curiae Issue 75 (2008) pp. 10–18 http://journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus/article/view/1180

9 Part One Amicus Curiae Issue 37 (2001) pp. 3–7 http://journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus/article/view/1313; Part Two Amicus Curiae Issue 38 (2001) pp. 11–15 http://journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus/article/view/1308; Update Amicus Curiae Issue 52 (2004) pp. 17–22 http://journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus/article/view/1062

10 Author browse for Wooldridge, Frank http://journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus/search/authors/view?firstName=Frank&middleName=&lastName=Wooldridge&affiliation=&country

11 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2011/02/usability.aspx

12 Webster, Peter (2012) SAS Open Journals: final project report http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/3504/

13 Open Access journal publishing in the arts and humanities: workshop report. A summary of discussions at the launch event for SAS Open Journals. Issues covered include staffing, marketing and publicity and alternative business models for OA journals. Also discussed were the particular issues for journals making the transition from print to web http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/3210/

14 For information on how to become a member of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies (SALS) at IALS please see http://ials.sas.ac.uk/SALS/society.htm

15 Harris, Julian ‘A friend of the Court’ Amicus Curiae Issue 68 (2006) p.1 http://journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus/article/view/1138

16 For more background see Harris, Julian ‘Open Access Journal Publishing and Amicus Curiae’ Amicus Curiae Issue 87 (2011) p.1 http://journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus/article/view/1526

17 Eprints http://www.eprints.org/

18 Public Knowledge Project http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs

19 Hollingworth and Moss http://www.hollingworthmoss.co.uk

20 Creative Commons http://www.creativecommons.org.uk

21 Amicus Curiae Issue 33 (2001) http://journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus/issue/view/257/showToc

22 SHERPA/RoMEO databse of Publisher Copyright policies and self-archiving http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

23 A recording of Professor Graham Greenleaf's lecture at IALS is available on the IALS website at http://ials.sas.ac.uk/news/Graham_Greenleaf_at_IALS_2012.htm

24 See the Eprints Wiki for more about MePrints plugin http://wiki.eprints.org/w/MePrints