open access to legal information
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An overview of the range of free - non-subscription - legal materials available on the internet, and the role of the legal information institutes in the Free Access to Law Movement.TRANSCRIPT
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Ruth Bird, October 2011
Open Access to Legal Information
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What type of legal resources?
Law reports of court cases Legislation created by our
governments Treaties and agreements between
international bodies, eg UN Journal articles
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Government legislative sites
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Court sites
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Individual international organisations, NGOs, etc
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Eisil – bringing free sites together
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Free Access to Law Movement A collaborative and decentralised initiative More than 900 databases from over 130 countries Support principles of free access to law Cooperation in software development for open
standards in legal information management Aims:
Effectiveness of use and re-usability Sustainable models Translation in other languages & cross-language retrieval
functionalities Adoption of open standards and metadata schemes for
primary materials
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Legal Information Institutes
Different kinds of LIIs Universities and Research centres
• AustLII, ITTIG, LII (Cornell), HKLII, NZLII
Non-profit Trusts or Foundations or NGOs• BAILII (Trust comprises Courts, Universities, legal
profession), SAFLII, Kenya Law reports (non-profit government)
Legal profession, as a professional and public service• CanLII (Law Societies of Canada), Juri Burkina, CyLaw
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Some Legal Information Institutes:
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One example – WorldLII
Single search facility for databases on 14 collaborating Legal Information Institutes, plus other databases are hosted
Allows searching of 1165 databases of case law, legislation, treaties, law reform reports and law journals from over 100 jurisdictions
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www.worldlii.org
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DOAJ - Open Access Journals – 125 for law
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Durham statement: Open access to law school journals
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Free scholarly journal repository - SSRN
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Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper series
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BE Press Legal Repository
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Free mark up software for free resources