(Cross posted at Law School Innovation) Harvard Law School’s faculty unanimously last week to make each faculty member’s scholarly articles available online for free. The school’s announcement, issued today, notes that Harvard is the first law schol to make this commitment to open access. (Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences had also voted unanimously for open access [...]

(Cross posted at Law School Innovation) Harvard Law School’s faculty unanimously last week to make each faculty member’s scholarly articles available online for free. The school’s announcement, issued today, notes that Harvard is the first law schol to make this commitment to open access. (Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences had also voted unanimously for open access [...]

I made a presentation and had a great discussion with the Information Futures group, an association of library and information scientists. The main points of my presentation: From my experience in running a legal aid website for the general public, education is different than just putting information out there. A course textbook is a curated selection, not [...]