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Ruth Bird
Open Access to Legal Information
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
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
Legal Information Institutes
DOAJ - Open Access Journals – 125 for law
Durham statement: Open access to law school journals
bepress Legal Repository