The Utrecht Law Review is a new peer-reviewed, open-access journal now in its second issue. Excerpt from today's press release:
Utrecht Law Review is an Open Access journal offering an international platform for cross-border legal research. It is a good practice of electronic publishing that has been developed by the DARE project [PS: in English] ‘Truth or DARE’ [PS: Dutch only], to show legal scholars the added value to deposit publications in digital repositories. The aim of the ‘Truth or DARE’ project was to establish a number of good electronic publishing practices for Dutch legal researchers. Specifically entailed are publications by legal scholars in digital repositories, resulting in added value to legal-academic communications as well as optimal user-friendliness for academics. The project focused mainly on added scholarly value, communication / information, the supply process, copyright and visibility and was intended to find the most effective method of creating commitment among the target group of authors....The Editorial Board of the Utrecht Law Review has committed itself until December 2007 to publish in Open Access and deposit the publications in the digital repository of the Utrecht University. In the meantime a sustainable business model for the journal is being investigated.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/11/2006 08:12:00 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.
