Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship

The Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship calls for all law schools to stop publishing their law journals in print format and to rely instead on open access electronic publication coupled with a commitment to keep the electronic versions available in stable, open, digital formats. It was written by Richard Danner (Duke University School of Law) and John Palfrey (Harvard Law School) and signed by the directors of the law libraries of a dozen law schools from the Eastern United States.^[1] An important motivation underlying this call is the fact that "very few law journals receive enough in subscription income and royalties to cover their costs of operation", in addition to improving access to journals.^[2]

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Open access

Concepts	Gratis ("free to read") Gratis versus libre Subscription business model Paywall Academic journal Scientific journal

Open access statements	Budapest Open Access Initiative Berlin Declaration Bethesda Statement Durham Statement NIH Public Access Policy Research Works Act

Strategies for implementing open access	Open-access journal ("gold OA") Self-archiving ("green OA") Open-access mandate Institutional repository Hybrid open-access journal Delayed open-access journal

Organizations associated with open access	Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition Public Library of Science Registry of Open Access Repositories ROARMAP Open Knowledge Foundation Open Society Foundations Creative Commons

List of open access projects	Access2Research Cost of Knowledge Access to knowledge movement List of open-access journals