Legal Research

Harvard Scholarship Repository

By Simon Fodden

Harvard University has launched DASH — Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard — a repository that currently makes available free the work of “[m]ore than 350 members of the Harvard research community, including over a third of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences,” according to the press release. At the moment there are some 1,500 papers available in the repository (some requiring that you register with DASH, for reasons that are not made clear on the site).

Of particular interest to Slaw readers is the fact that Harvard Law School is a participant and has lodged 64 articles with the repository at this point.

Users can search the whole repository or only the law school and faculty of arts and sciences portions separately. As well it’s possible to browse by title, keyword and author. All of this works well, so far as I can judge; although, when browsing by keyword you’re offered a meagre 20 items per page, which means too many clicks and an inability to refer back and forth between items without many more clicks.

One of the first papers to pop up for my attention was a student work (currently the only one in the law repository) entitled “Rethinking Legal Education In Hard Times: The Recession, Practical Legal Education, And The New Job Market” [PDF] by Daniel Thies, appropriate for the economic times and the time of year.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on September 04, 2009 (boomark / email).