173 research outputs found
Beyond Measure: Implicating Law Reviews and Author Rankings in Low Impact Factors in Legal Scholarship
No full textThis article argues that the current academic author ranking system is flawed. This flaw arises due to obscuring the scope and value of legal scholarship. This obfuscation ultimately hinders innovation and meaningful impact across the legal landscape
Beyond Measure: Implicating Law Reviews and Author Rankings in Low Impact Factors in Legal Scholarship
No full textThis article argues that the current academic author ranking system is flawed. This flaw arises due to obscuring the scope and value of legal scholarship. This obfuscation ultimately hinders innovation and meaningful impact across the legal landscape
DOI Demystified
No full textThinking about minting DOIs for your law reviews, but not sure where to begin? We will convene a group of law librarians to discuss their experiences minting DOIs and share tips and tricks on how to get started and to create fast and easy workflows. All your burning questions about DOI will be answered during this hour-long session.
Speakers:
Valeri Craigle, Head of Digital and E-Publishing Services, James E. Faust Law Library, University of Utah
Aaron Retteen. Instructional Assistant Professor of Law and Digital Services & Repository Librarian, Texas A&M University School of Law
Benjamin Keele, Associate Director, Indiana University McKinney Law
Elizabeth Manriquez, Scholarly Communications and Reference Librarian, University of Wisconsin Law School Library
Jessica Pasquale, Assistant Director for Scholarly Publishing & Information Services, University of Michigan Law School Library
Cassie Walker, Assistant Director for Scholarly Initiatives, SMU Dedman School of Law
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Graduation 2013
No full textStaff and librarians at commencement, 2013. First row from left: ?, Miriam Lovin, ?, ?, Janice Burn. Second row from left: Valeri Craigle, Dan Burn, Ross McPhail, Matthew Pierce, Maggie Dwenger
Cracking the code: illuminating new directions in scholarly communications and publishing initiatives
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Digitizing the Utah Code Annotated
No full textWhen Utah’s three law libraries closed their doors in March 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic, legal practitioners, researchers, and self-represented litigants lost access to the superseded Utah Code Annotated (UCA), which existed only in print form at these three libraries. Access to the UCA was restored in early 2021 through an LSTA grant-funded project that digitized UCA volumes and pocket parts from 1943-1995 and disseminated these materials via an open access Digital Commons collection
Web-Scale Discovery and Federated Search
No full textIn stark contrast to the library card catalogs of old, today’s library search interfaces offer much more than one-dimensional, item-specific searching. Users are now engaged in a process of discovery in which they are empowered to control not only the sources of content being searched, but also the context into which information is delivered, and the platform onto which information is synthesized. By eliminating the barriers to information discovery, law libraries can position themselves as true partners in this process, defining their mission in new ways, and providing critical services in an ever-complex information ecosystem
The Jefferson B. Fordham Digital Collection
No full textThis collection contains the papers and photographs of Jefferson B. Fordham, which were graciously donated to the University of Utah\u27s S.J. Quinney College of Law by his late wife, Rita Ennella Fordham, in 2012.
Jefferson Barnes Fordham, a vocal supporter of individual rights and racial equality, served as dean of the University of Pennsylvania\u27s law school from 1952 until he reached emeritus status in 1970. From 1972 until his retirement, he was a professor of law at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
As a law dean he testified at Congressional hearings and served on public panels, including one that advised President John F. Kennedy on ethics in government and the problems posed by conflicts of interest. He was a strong advocate of individual rights and racial equality. He was a prime mover in 1966 when the American Bar Association created a division on individual rights and responsibilities. It was the first broad-based group within the A.B.A. to focus on civil rights and civil liberties.
In Senate hearings in 1967, Dean Fordham urged a national fair-housing law. It was needed, he declared, because housing -- one\u27s living situation -- conditions access to or availability of other opportunities, notably in education and employment.
Professor Fordham was born in Greensboro, N.C. He was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina, where he also earned his master\u27s degree. He received a law degree in 1930 at Yale University, where he was a member of the Order of Coif. He was in Government service in Washington and private practice in New York in the 1930\u27s, and served in the Pacific as a lieutenant commander in the Navy in World War II.
He held professorships at Louisiana State University, Vanderbilt University and Ohio State University, joining the faculty in Philadelphia as a professor of law in 1952
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Digitizing the Utah Code Annotated
No full textWhen Utah’s three law libraries closed their doors in March 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic, legal practitioners, researchers, and self-represented litigants lost access to the superseded Utah Code Annotated (UCA), which existed only in print form at these three libraries. Access to the UCA was restored in early 2021 through an LSTA grant-funded project that digitized UCA volumes and pocket parts from 1943-1995 and disseminated these materials via an open access Digital Commons collection
Digital preservation of law reviews: Two ways
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Purpose
This paper will aim to explain two strategies for digital preservation of law reviews, informing law librarians of the options which might best suit their needs.
Design/methodology/approach
On November 7, 2008, the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship was released to the public. One of its main tenets – that law schools and libraries “stop publishing journals in print format and rely instead on electronic publication coupled with a commitment to keep the electronic versions available in stable, open, digital formats” – was an open call to law libraries to start thinking about digital preservation strategies for their law reviews. The Legal Information Preservation Alliance responded to the need by developing the Law Review Preservation Program, an initiative, which archives law reviews hosted on the Bepress Digital Commons (DC) platform in Controlled LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) or CLOCKSS.
Findings
For those law libraries without subscriptions to DC, there is an open-source, freely available alternative solution for ingesting digital law reviews into any preservation platform. This application, called the Submission Information Metadata Packaging, or SIMP tool was developed at the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah, initially as a solution for ingesting content into the Ex Libris Rosetta Digital preservation platform, as part of a CONTENTdm digital asset management workflow. Though the development of the SIMP tool was inspired by Marriott’s need to ingest digital files from CONTENTdm to Rosetta, they built it to work with any Digital Asset Management System and Digital preservation platform.
Originality/value
Digital Preservation of law reviews is in its infancy. This is one of the first articles of its kind to provide specific solutions and technical advice for law libraries.
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