RE: OA in Legal Publishing: Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship

[Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu>]

That's not the way I read it, especially I believe this paragraph 
implies:

Additionally, and potentially most importantly, a move toward 
digital files as the preferred format for legal scholarship will 
increase access to legal information and knowledge not only to 
those inside the legal academy and in practice, but to scholars 
in other disciplines and to international audiences, many of whom 
do not now have access either to print journals or to commercial 
databases.

Sandy Thatcher
Penn State University

>This isn't about OA, it's about online(-only) publication
>
>Sally Morris
>Email: sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk
>
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>Subject: OA in Legal Publishing: Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal
>Scholarship
>
>Listmembers may be interested in the "Durham Statement on Open
>Access to Legal Scholarship,"
>
>http://legalresearchplus.com/2009/02/20/durham-statement-on-open-access-to-legal-scholarship/
>
>issued earlier this month, and signed by the directors of many of
>the largest U.S. law libraries.  Here is the paragraph
>identifying the "objective" of the statement:
>
>Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship 11 February
>2009
>
>Objective: The undersigned believe that it will benefit legal
>education and improve the dissemination of legal scholarly
>information if law schools commit to making the legal scholarship
>they publish available in stable, open, digital formats in place
>of print. To accomplish this end, law schools should commit to
>making agreed-upon stable, open, digital formats, rather than
>print, the preferable formats for legal scholarship. If stable,
>open, digital formats are available, law schools should stop
>publishing law journals in print and law libraries should stop
>acquiring print law journals. We believe that, in addition to
>their other benefits, these changes are particularly timely in
>light of the financial challenges currently facing many law
>schools.
>
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>Philadelphia, PA
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