JISC and BAILII agreement will make legal resources openly available to all, a JISC press release, May 5, 2005. Excerpt: 'A major new agreement will digitise thousands of core legal judgments and law reports and for the first time make these freely and openly available electronically. JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute) today announced the Open Law project which has the potential to transform the delivery of legal teaching and public access to legal materials in the UK. Access to case reports and legislation are central to the teaching of law and the development of legal skills. Open Law will therefore focus on the core needs of staff and students on law courses at all levels. It will include around 200 of the most cited judgments in each of the core areas of the law course syllabus....The digitisation of these judgments and other reports means that the project will digitise a total over 40,000 pages....JISC's and BAILII's commitment to open access principles in this project will mean that the general public will also be able to access the most important legal materials for free.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/06/2005 07:35:00 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.
