Re: The Special Case of Law Reviews

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:53:16 +0000

It would be nice to see the actual figures on Law Reviews' self-archiving
policies, though. Does anyone actually have the data -- or a list of the email
addresses that I could send a query to?

Stevan Harnad

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Terry Martin wrote:

> I don't think you are correct. I suspect most law reviews are extremely
> reluctant to permit self-archiving, as many want the articles that have
> been submitted to pre-print services withdrawn before the reviews will
> accept them.
>
> >(6) I suspect, though, that the California Law Review may be in a minority
> >among Law reviews in this regard, as Bernard Hibbitt's influential
> >article in 1996 went a long way toward encouraging a "green" policy
> >among Law Reviews.
> >
> > Hibbitts, B. J. (1996) Last Writes? Re-Assessing the Law Review
> > in the Age of Cyberspace. New York University Law Review 615
> > http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/lastrev.htm
>
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