JOWS #7 - John R. Beatty - Open Access Without Open Access Values

This presentation is based on a seminar talk given as part of the JOWS monthly series.

Legal scholarship in the United States developed differently than legal scholarship in other parts of the world or other scholarship in the United States. These differences have led to the wide availability of journal articles on the internet without paywalls, but without the hallmarks of Open Access publications in other fields. Journals may hold a copyright on these articles, signed over by the author. Very few are licensed for reuse. And it is difficult to know what the policies are because the journals rarely post them publicly. This presentation will discuss the current state of Open Access in US legal journals and the challenges resulting from the lack of clear policies from the journals.