Foreword: Why Open Access to Scholarship Matters
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FOREWORD: WHY OPEN ACCESS TO SCHOLARSHIP MATTERS
by
Joseph Scott Miller
On March 10, 2006, the Lewis & Clark Law Review sponsored a day-long
symposium entitled Open Access Publishing and the Future of Legal Scholar-
ship.' That gathering led to the eight papers in this issue of the Review. In this
Foreword, I offer some thoughts about why all law professors should take an
interest in the movement promoting open access to scholarship.
What, then, does open access scholarship (or open access publishing)
mean? Varied definitions appear in different open access movement source
2
documents, such as the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the Bethesda State-
ment on Open Access Publishing,3 and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access
4
to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. One can also derive working
definitions from the open access publishing approaches various actors have
taken.5 The Budapest declaration, for its part, sums up the concept this way:
Associate Professor, Lewis & Clark Law School. © 2006 Joseph Scott Miller. Upon publi-
cation of this work in the Lewis & Clark Law Review, I license my copyright in it to all un-
der the Creative Commons license known as Attribution 2.5. You can see a summary of this
license at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/. Attribution should be to me as the
author, and to Lewis & Clark Law Review as the first publisher. Upon my death, my copy-
right in this work is dedicated to the public domain. Comments are welcome at getmejoemil-
ler@gmail.com.
Conference materials, including podcasts of the presentations, are available on the
web at http://www.lclark.edu/deptfblaw/springsympos2006.html. To learn more about the
movement to promote open access to legal scholarship, please consult the resource website
we created in conjunction with the symposium, at http://lawlib.lclark.edu/research/
openaccess/. The Review's general website is at http://www.lclark.edulorg/lclr/.
2 Budapest Open Access Initiative (Feb. 14, 2002), http://www.soros.org/openaccess/
read.shtml.
3 Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (June 20, 2003),
http://www.earlham.edu/-peters/fos/bethesda.htm.
4 Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
(Oct. 22, 2003), http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html.
5 See, e.g., JOHN WILLINSKY, THE ACCESS PRINCIPLE: THE CASE FOR OPEN ACCESS TO
RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP 211 (MIT Press 2006), available at http://mitpress.mit.edu/
catalog/item/default.asp?tid=10611&ttype=2 (group[ing] the current variations of open
access publishing into ten flavors or models, based largely on how they are financed and the
nature of the access that they provide).](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/lewclr10&div=39&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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