Re: Re: Open Access Academic Publications

Hello:

I made a recommendation that all academic law reviews put electronic copies 
of their publications and indices on-line at one of the early CALI 
conferences.  A few schools did so.  Most still have not.  Some have only 
indices but not full-text.  The Cornell Legal Information Institute has 
developed a law review publishing software system that is freely available 
to any law review.  It handles all publication, indexing, and archiving and 
it uses several of the XML formats and operations.  See, 
http://www.law.cornell.edu/leda/manual/

This type of application was one of the reasons the WWW was invented.  The 
Physics community has long used an archive originally run on NeXT computers 
to disseminate new research articles.  Law schools have tended to rely upon 
their agreements with Lexis and Westlaw and have not developed the 
expertise or support staff necessary to make legal scholarship freely or 
easily available to everyone.

I have, like many other sometime law faculty members, placed my own 
articles online on my websites.  I am currently working on an index to 
freely available online legal scholarship.

Regards,

Steven C. Perkins



At 02:32 PM 4/20/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Your arithmetic works but for one problem:  It is cost
>prohibitive for me to reproduce mass quanities of hard
>copy.  However, electronic copy is extraordinarily cheap
>to copy and reproduce.
>
>I teach at U of B Law School on an adjunct basis.  As I
>recall, the book that I use costs my students around $60
>or even $100.  Assume that the law library had an
>electronic copy on line for which it paid $250.  Clearly,
>each student could either (i) freely access the copy or
>(ii) even if it were illegal, cheaply download a copy.
>
>I think that it's the "cheap to reproduce" aspect that
>keeps these books in hard rather than electronic
>versions.  This would not seem to be a problem with law
>reviews, however, because, with rare exceptions,
>they're loss leaders anyway. By putting them on line,
>schools might even be able to cut the extent of their
>losses.
>
>On 19 Apr 2004 at 18:32, M. Sean Fosmire wrote:
>
> > I would see nothing wrong with widespread *paid* distribution of law
> > reviews and other periodicals via the internet.  Such a service could
> > be very cost-effective and still make some money for the sponsoring
> > law schools.
> >
> > Paper and binding boards constitute a major obstacle to access.  If a
> > current subscriber has to pay $57.50 per year for eight issues of the
> > Harvard Law Review, at least $35 of that amount (to WAG it a bit) is
> > paying for printing presses, paper, and delivery systems to get a
> > paper version in my hands. Would the normal user pay $25 per year to
> > get an electronic version, bypassing the presses and the mail, and in
> > the process getting a searchable version that takes up no shelf space?
> > Would librarians prefer the electronic version for those reasons?  You
> > bet. And I would bet that far more people would subscribe at the lower
> > prices. If the HLR sells 1,000 copies of each paper version @$57, it
> > could probably sell 2,000 e-versions @$25, and maybe 8,000 @$10 per
> > year.  The math results in:
> >
> > paper - maybe $22,000 in net revenue after expenses
> > e-version at $25 - $50,000
> > e-version at $10 - $80,000
> >
> > And for the e-versions, the expenses are negligible.
> >
> > M. Sean Fosmire
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