Key Open Access Concepts, excerpt from Charles W.Bailey, Jr., Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals . Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2005.
Dan Hunter, Walled Gardens (2004). This Essay explains how open access publishing works, why it is important, and makes the case for its widespread adoption by law reviews.
Symposium: Open Access Publishing and the Future of Legal Scholarship, Lewis & Clark Law Review, Volume 10 / Number 4 / Winter 2006
- Foreword: Why Open Access to Scholarship Matters
- The Movement for Open Access Law
- Open Access to Infinite Content (Or “In Praise of Law Reviews”)
- The Economics of Open Access Law Publishing
- Open Access in a Closed Universe: Lexis, Westlaw, Law Schools, and the Legal Information Market
- Download It While It's Hot: Open Access and Legal Scholarship
- Open Access, Law, Knowledge, Copyrights, Dominance and Subordination
- Open Access in Law Teaching: A New Approach to Legal Education
- The Idea of the Law Review: Scholarship, Prestige and Open Access
Peter Suber's Open Access Overview: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
An interview with Peter Suber by Richard Poynder
Stevan Harnad, Access Mandates and Metrics, a video presentation by the most active proselytizer of open access to the European Rectors' meeting on Open Access, 18 October 2007, at the Université de Liège. Slides from this talk are here. An earlier PowerPoint of this lecture is here.
A special issue of Serials Review (vol.30 no.4) devoted to the subject of open access is available at . It is marked "Complimentary" and will be available without charge at least until summer 2005.
Nancy Kranich, The Information Commons: A Public Policy Report (2004), Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, Democracy Program, Free Expression Policy Project
Carolina Almeida A. Rossini, The Open Access Movement: opportunities and challenges for developing countries, Diplo Foundation, Internet Governance Program - 2007
Budapest Initiative: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
