The Legal Workshop is a blog-based compendium of short, non-technical summaries of recently published law-review articles, written by the original authors. (Thanks to the Wired Campus.)
Comment. It's a great idea, and many other fields, especially in the humanities and social sciences, should follow suit. However, OA to brief summaries is no reason to slow down or give up on OA to full-texts.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/22/2009 06:08:00 PM.
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.
