October 22: Duke Open Access Law Journal Conference

A conference entitled Implementing the Durham Statement: Best Practices for Open Access Law Journals will be held 22 October 2010 at the Duke University Law School, in Durham, North Carolina, USA.

The conference is being organized by Senior Associate Dean Richard A. Danner of Duke University Law School.

Here is a description of the conference, from Dean Danner’s announcement:

Sponsored by the Duke Law School J. Michael Goodson Law Library and the Harvard Law Library: A workshop aimed at student law review editors, designed to present and discuss best practices for law journals as increasing numbers move into electronic publishing. The workshop is also open to law librarians, law review advisers, and all others who are interested in open access and legal publishing. It will be webcast and promoted to all ABA-accredited law schools. For more information and to register, please contact Professor Richard Danner at zad@law.duke.edu . Registration is free, but requested for catering.

For more information, please see the conference announcement.

Click here for Dean Danner’s recent paper about the Durham Statement.

Click here for the full text of the Durham Statement.

HT Dean Danner and @jpalfrey.

Danner on The Durham Statement on Open Access One Year Later: Preservation and Access to Legal Scholarship

Senior Associate Dean Richard A. Danner of the Duke University School of Law, has posted a new paper entitled The Durham Statement on Open Access One Year Later: Preservation and Access to Legal Scholarship (2010). Here is the abstract:

The Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship calls for US law schools to stop publishing their journals in print format and to rely instead on electronic publication with a commitment to keep the electronic versions available in “stable, open, digital formats.” The Statement asks for two things: 1) open access publication of law school-published journals; and 2) an end to print publication of law journals. This paper was written as background for a July 2010 American Association of Law Libraries conference program on the preservation implications of the call to end print publication.