January 2023 The Osgoode Digital Commons received 50,286 full-text downloads and 33 new submissions, bringing the total works in the repository to 18,707. Osgoode Hall Law School of York University scholarship was read by 2,3205 institutions across 179 countries. The most popular papers were: Book Review: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs edited […]
The Osgoode Library is pleased to present a new digital book display that showcases and celebrates the scholarly works of Osgoode Faculty that were published this year. This collection features a selection of authored books, edited books, and book chapters on topics such as, Corporate Law, Indigenous Law, and LGBTQ2+ Law. The digital book display […]
The Osgoode Hall Law School has been providing open access to most of Osgoode’s research and scholarship since Osgoode Digital Commons (ODC) was launched by our the Osgoode Hall Law School Library in February 2014. With 18,000 archived academic papers, commissioned reports, case commentaries, theses, book reviews, photographs, videos, podcasts, recordings of special lectures and […]
Open Access Week 2020 (October 19 –23), is being commemorated globally with different events. This year’s theme is “Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion.” The Osgoode Digital Commons Team as part of the events will be posting a series of open access themed blogs throughout this week. The first blog post features and highlights “5 things you need to know […]
January 2020 Last month, the Osgoode Digital Commons received 56,305 full-text downloads and 1 new submissions, bringing the total works in the repository to 17,776. Osgoode Hall Law School of York University scholarship was read by 2,637 institutions across 189 countries. The most popular papers were: The Harms of Child Pornography Law (349 downloads) The […]
December 2019 Last month, the Osgoode Digital Commons received 54,568 full-text downloads and 12 new submissions, bringing the total works in the repository to 17,775. Osgoode Hall Law School of York University scholarship was read by 2,778 institutions across 186 countries. The most popular papers were: Book Review: Are Prisons Obsolete?, by Angela Y. Davis […]
November 2019 Last month, the Osgoode Digital Commons received 70,546 full-text downloads and 39 new submissions, bringing the total works in the repository to 17,775. Osgoode Hall Law School of York University scholarship was read by 3,209 institutions across 190 countries. The most popular papers were: The Charter's Influence Around the World (1,416 downloads) Discretion […]
October 2019 Last month, the Osgoode Digital Commons received 62,232 full-text downloads and 151 new submissions, bringing the total works in the repository to 17,736. Osgoode Hall Law School of York University scholarship was read by 3,202 institutions across 191 countries. The most popular papers were: The Charter 25 Years Later: The Good, the Bad, […]
THE BEGINNINGIn 2012 librarians at the Osgoode Hall Law School Law Library began thinking about establishing an institutional repository that would capture and disseminate faculty scholarship created at the Osgoode Hall Law School. Initial objectives for this institutional repository were: to provide open access to institutional research at Osgoode through self-archiving; to create global visibility […]
September 2019 Last month, the Osgoode Digital Commons received 49,544 full-text downloads and 48 new submissions, bringing the total works in the repository to 17,709. Osgoode Hall Law School of York University scholarship was read by 2,522 institutions across 183 countries. The most popular papers were: The Role of Law in Social Change (308 downloads) […]