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Ruth Bird Open Access to Legal Information

Ruth Bird Open Access to Legal Information. Free Access to Law Movement A collaborative and decentralised initiative – started in 2002 – ‘The Montreal

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Page 1: Ruth Bird Open Access to Legal Information. Free Access to Law Movement  A collaborative and decentralised initiative – started in 2002 – ‘The Montreal

Ruth Bird

Open Access to Legal Information

Page 2: Ruth Bird Open Access to Legal Information. Free Access to Law Movement  A collaborative and decentralised initiative – started in 2002 – ‘The Montreal

Free Access to Law Movement A collaborative and decentralised initiative –

started in 2002 – ‘The Montreal declaration’ All members support principle of free access to

law There is also cooperation in software

development for open standards in legal information management

Aims of the FALM Effectiveness of use and re-usability of the data Sustainable models Translation into other languages & cross-language

retrieval functionalities Adoption of open standards and metadata schemes for

primary materials

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Why is free access to law complex?

Nature of legal materials…• Law reports of court cases• Legislation created by our governments• Treaties and agreements between international

bodies, eg UN• Journal articles

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Legal Information Institutes

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DOAJ - Open Access Journals – 125 for law

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Durham statement: Open access to law school journals

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bepress Legal Repository