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Knowledge Unlatched: An Argument for Academic Scholarship in Law to be Open and How it Might be Achieved

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2012

Frances Pinter  and
Nicholas Bown
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Abstract

The market in academic monographs is problematic, and sales have been in decline for decades. Concurrently, Open Access models of publishing are being developed and open content licenses designating a ‘some rights reserved’ status for content have been employed to provide a legal framework to reflect the changing ways content is used online. In the context of these innovations, Frances Pinter and Nicholas Bown describe Knowledge Unlatched, a not-for-profit library consortium project which seeks to combine a financially viable Open Access model with the use of open content licences to create a more efficient market in scholarly books to the benefit of all stakeholders in the academic publishing ecosystem.

Keywords

legal publishingacademicopen accessopen content licenses
Type
Legal Literature: Unlocking Access
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , September 2012 , pp. 185 - 189
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2012. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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