My new post at Slaw, entitled Finding Hidden Treasure, explores an odd circumstance in legal publishing: certain law journal publishers are not promoting or licensing the articles in their journals on the Web. This post profiles three such journals — which publish articles of interest to lawyers and nonlawyers in multiple jurisdictions — and suggests that opportunities may be lost due to the choice not to use the Web to publicize or license these articles.
Tags: Digital legal publishing, Law journals, Legal scholarly communication, Legal scholarship, Slaw
October 7, 2010 at 11:02 am |
Yesterday’s announcement by Elsevier is consistent with the industry trend. The platform referred to in the announcement includes a number of legal journals: Elsevier Introduces Article-Based Publishing to Increase Publication Speed: http://j.mp/99SlGe
October 16, 2010 at 3:54 pm |
Some discussion in comments to my Slaw post on law journal publishers’ declining to put article metadata on free Web http://bit.ly/9ykwf5