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Open access within legal academia provides a case study for the effective use of digital formats to promote scholarship. The presenters review the background historical developments in this field, and consider the benefits and rationales for providing open access to legal scholarship, including the special faculty concerns arising from SSRN and its relationship to the institutional repository.
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The public domain is in danger. The impact of multiple changes in U.S. law, many of which were part of American implementation of international copyright agreements, has drastically reduced the flow of works into the space where they are free for all to use. Nevertheless, the public domain is an integral part of the copyright bargain. This presentation will explore how we got into the current situation, why it should concern us, and what we might do to improve our prospects for a robust public domain.
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James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson, and Caroline Osborne, speakers during the upcoming Open Access Symposium 2015, were recently awarded this year's ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award for their article "The Open Access Advantage for American Law Reviews."