Jason Krause writes in the March 6 issue of the ABA Journal that while the web is increasingly valuable for lawyers, it "has rarely supplanted Lexis, Westlaw or even print materials as a primary legal research tool." Krause's article is especially good at summarizing the free and priced services now available for legal research. (Thanks to LIS News.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/21/2003 10:00:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
