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Wonk-at-Law Post: Proposed On-line Legal Repository

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More about the workshops:

Law.gov: Massachusetts (6/17)

Do we have access to all primary legal materials in Massachusetts? What are the best practices for making information accessible?  What obstacles face institutions trying to make it available?  

Our hope is to create a document outlining the most salient issues in accessibility to Massachusetts legal information with suggestions of things that could be done to effect the most accessible system possible in Massachusetts.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/e…

Law.gov: Putting it All Together (6/18)

The Harvard Law School Law.Gov workshop on June 18 is the last in a 6-month series of such workshops that have taken place throughout the country.  

In this final workshop, participants will discuss the implications of some core principles about access to primary legal materials. Are these principles workable? What will it take to make them real? What are the implications of these principles?

Our hope is that upon completion of this workshop, a crisp set of basic principles can be presented and discussed, perhaps leading to the enactment of some of these principles into policy through mechanisms such as judicial rules, executive orders, or legislation.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/e…

Registration and full agendas for both workshops can be found at

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/e…

and

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/e…

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  1. Check out google scholar for free access to court opinions.  Is the Berkman Center answering a question that already has been answered?

    • Is the Berkman Center answering a question that already has been answered?

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      p>I’m inclined to believe that Google scholar is somewhat limited, compared to on-line academic libraries or for-profit data sources.

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      p>In terms of on-line research (in policy and political, not legal matters), I’m often hamstrung by my relatively small number of subscriptions to various journals, and the fact that my terms of membership in academic on-line libraries limit my access to abstractions (as opposed to the full working papers/articles/studies I often need).

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      p>In legal matters, I doubt that Google Scholar holds a candle to Lexis/Nexis.

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      p>As a result, much of what I can research is directly related to friends’ willingness to allow me to access their faculty or partnership accounts.

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      p>While, in my experience, the information is available, it isn’t “open”.

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      p>I’m open to correction on this.

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