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Harvard Frees Academic Resources

An inside source (hint: he navigates by smell) tipped off the ALR class that last week Harvard made a decision: any article published by Harvard faculty must also be published in a free database. The basic notion is that information produced by scholars should be free.

While the decision surely bears most directly on the sciences, it will apply with some force to law scholarship as well.

I'm all for it. Knowledge, as they say, is power. And I find selling access to power unpalatable. After all, if you write an article at UC Berkeley (a public institution), shouldn't it be available to the public?

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on February 27, 2008 (boomark / email).