Law repositories are on the rise. In 2010, the number of law schools with Institutional Repositories (IRs) more than doubled, from 10 to 24. As law schools begin this push toward increased access to scholarship, how will your law school maintain and expand its own visibility on the web?
Please join us for a free webinar series that will explore how three different law libraries have successfully increased the exposure and impact of their law schools' scholarly assets through IRs.
Sep 27, 2011 at 11am Pacific/ 2pm Eastern
Title: Digitally Archiving your Law Reviews: from Planning to Population
Presenters: Lauren Seney and Linda Tesar, William & Mary Law School
Oct 19, 2011 at 11am Pacific/ 2pm Eastern
Title: Digital Commons @ UGA School of Law: A Cornucopia of Content
Presenter: Carol Watson, University of Georgia Law
Nov 8, 2011 at 11am Pacific/ 2pm Eastern
Title: Institutional Repositories: Solving Problems for Law Schools
Presenter: Todd Melnick, Fordham Law School
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Institutional Repositories: Solving Problems for Law Schools
Is your legal scholarship achieving its full value in its current form? Is there a cheaper, better way to publish student-edited law journals? Todd Melnick, Associate Librarian for Public Services at Fordham Law School Library, shares how his library has utilized an institutional repository as a response to these and other timely questions facing law schools today.
Over the last two years, Fordham Law Library has developed its institutional repository to include the archives of its 6 law reviews and over 6,000 open access items. Todd discusses the surprising results of making this work digital and open access, and also covers the distributed management model used to enable law review editors to do the lion's share of the archiving work.
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Digitally Archiving your Law Reviews: from Planning to Population
Last year, the William & Mary law library uploaded 5,000 documents to their institutional repository in little over 3 months. The documents include the complete archives of five law reviews, spanning more than 50 years of scholarly publications. Over the last year, these collections have garnered more than 400,000 downloads from a global audience.
Lauren Seney and Linda Tesar, who led the effort to archive W&M’s law reviews, share their experiences in this webinar. Topics include: essential components, best practices, and strategies for archiving law reviews online.
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Digital Commons @ UGA School of Law: A Cornucopia of Content
The University of Georgia law library has one of the most long standing and successful law repositories in the world. With the leadership of Carol Watson, DigitalCommons@University of Georgia School of Law regularly delivers a wide and impressive range of open access legal scholarship to a global audience.
They are not alone. Almost 30 law schools have followed their lead and established their own law-specific repositories in the past 3 years. As law repositories grow exponentially, more and more law libraries are looking for guidance – to make the case, to plan smartly, to staff efficiently, and most of all, to ensure and increase buy in every year.
In this webinar, Carol explores strategies for creating and developing an institutional repository at a law school, including building repository content beyond faculty scholarship.