July 2019 Last month, the Osgoode Digital Commons received 35,356 full-text downloads and 34 new submissions, bringing the total works in the repository to 17,517. Osgoode Hall Law School of York University scholarship was read by 2,335 institutions across 184 countries. The most popular papers were: The Critical Characteristics of Community Legal Aid Clinics in […]
June 2019 Last month, the Osgoode Digital Commons received 32,847 full-text downloads and 24 new submissions, bringing the total works in the repository to 17,498. Osgoode Hall Law School of York University scholarship was read by 2,233 institutions across 187 countries. The most popular papers were: The Critical Characteristics of Community Legal Aid Clinics in […]
February 2019 In the month of February, the Osgoode Digital Commons had 35,292 full-text downloads and 72 new submissions, bringing the total works in the repository to 22,768. Osgoode Hall Law School of York University scholarship was read by 2,271 institutions across 172 countries. The most popular faculty publications were: Master and Servant in England: […]
Last month, the Osgoode Digital Commons had 40,261 full-text downloads and 105 new submissions, bringing the total works in the repository to 17,256. Osgoode Hall Law School of York University scholarship was read by 2,472 institutions across 172 countries. The most popular faculty publications were: The Restatement (Third) of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment by John […]
October 2018 Last month, the Osgoode Digital Commons had 39,867 full-text downloads and 105 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 17,156. Osgoode Hall Law School of York University scholarship was read by 2,807 institutions across 181 countries. The most popular faculty papers were: Book Review: The Hart-Fuller Debate in […]
Open Access Week 2018 is here! The international celebration of open access (OA) will run from October 22nd-28th. This year’s theme is “designing equitable foundations for open access”. What does this theme mean? To me, it means spreading the word far and wide on some core OA concepts, which will hopefully translate into inspiration and […]
York University Libraries will celebrate International Open Access Week from Oct. 20 to 26. Open Access Week is a global campaign that promotes open access as an ideal for the dissemination of scholarship and research. On Oct. 24, to reflect this year’s theme “Generation Open,” the libraries will host a movie screening and talk by Carys Craig, […]
Open access is an important thing to think about whenever you are creating or consuming scholarship. And it’s not important just because it happens to be Open Access Week. Richard A. Danner talks about the importance of legal scholarship in his article, “Open Access to Legal Scholarship: Dropping the Barriers to Discourse and Dialogue.” “Legal […]
In a recent post on Slaw, our colleague Ruth Bird, Bodleian Law Librarian, refers to an article in The Guardian – “Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist” – by George Monbiot. Mr Monbiot recommends that “governments should refer the academic publishers to their competition watchdogs, and insist that all papers arising from publicly funded research are placed […]
As part of the Scholarly Communication Series there will be a presentation for faculty and graduate students on Intellectual Property and Open Access. This is a co-presentation of the York University Libraries, the Faculty of Graduate Studies, and the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies. Featured speakers include: Breanne Whitwell, Research Officer in the […]