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Open Access to Legal Information

Open Access to Legal Information. Ruth Bird. Free Access to Law Movement. A collaborative and decentralised initiative – started in 2002 – ‘The Montreal declaration’ All members support principle of free access to law

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Open Access to Legal Information

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  1. Open Access to Legal Information Ruth Bird

  2. Free Access to Law Movement • A collaborative and decentralised initiative – started in 2002 – ‘The Montreal declaration’ • All members support principle of free access to law • There is also cooperation in software development for open standards in legal information management • Aims of the FALM • Effectiveness of use and re-usability of the data • Sustainable models • Translation into other languages & cross-language retrieval functionalities • Adoption of open standards and metadata schemes for primary materials

  3. Why is free access to law complex? • Nature of legal materials… • Law reports of court cases • Legislation created by our governments • Treaties and agreements between international bodies, eg UN • Journal articles

  4. Legal Information Institutes

  5. DOAJ - Open Access Journals – 125 for law

  6. Durham statement: Open access to law school journals

  7. bepress Legal Repository

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