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1 Ruth Bird Open Access to Legal Information

2 Free Access to Law Movement  A collaborative and decentralised initiative – started in 2002 – ‘The Montreal declaration’  All members support principle of free access to law  There is also cooperation in software development for open standards in legal information management  Aims of the FALM  Effectiveness of use and re-usability of the data  Sustainable models  Translation into other languages & cross-language retrieval functionalities  Adoption of open standards and metadata schemes for primary materials

3 Why is free access to law complex ? Nature of legal materials… Law reports of court cases Legislation created by our governments Treaties and agreements between international bodies, eg UN Journal articles

4 Legal Information Institutes

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6 DOAJ - Open Access Journals – 125 for law

7 Durham statement: Open access to law school journals

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9 bepress Legal Repository

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