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ALL-SIS to Co-sponsor SSRN's Legal Information and Technology eJournal

DianeMurley | June 09, 2009 14:43

ALL-SIS has agreed to co-sponsor the Legal Information and Technology eJournal (http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/lsn_legal-info-tech.html) on SSRN for the next three years. The eJournal was launched in January of 2009 with the generous support of MALLCO, the Mid-America Law Library Consortium. The eJournal is co-edited by ALL-SIS members Randy Diamond, (diamondrj@missouri.edu) Director of Library and Technology Resources and Associate Legal Research Professor of Law at the University of Missouri Columbia and Lee Peoples, (lpeoples@okcu.edu) Associate Professor of Law Library Science and Associate Director of the Law Library at Oklahoma City University. Randy and Lee welcome submissions of articles from ALL-SIS members and will give any articles submitted by ALL-SIS members priority for inclusion in the weekly eJournal issues. Thematic issues highlighting papers from any ALL-SIS workshops or programs are also possible. A description of the eJournal is included below. Please contact Randy or Lee with any questions.

The Legal Information and Technology eJournal includes working papers, forthcoming articles, and recently published articles in all areas of legal information scholarship. Topics include (but are not limited to):

  1. The impact of legal information on domestic, comparative, and international legal systems;
  2. The treatment of legal information authorities and precedents (e.g., citation studies);
  3. The examination of rules, practices, and commentary limiting or expanding applications of legal information (e.g., citation to unpublished opinions and to foreign law);
  4. The study of economic, legal, political, and social conditions limiting or extending access to legal information (e.g., trends in the legal publishing industry, intellectual property regimes, and open access initiatives);
  5. The finding and use of legal information by academics to produce legal scholarship, by law students to learn the law, by attorneys in practice, and by judges and others decision makers to determine legal outcomes;
  6. The history of legal information systems and technological advancements;
  7. Legal information system design and assessment; and
  8. The relationship of substantive areas of law (such as information law, intellectual freedom, intellectual property, and national security law) and other academic disciplines (e.g., information science) to legal information. This includes the scholarship of law librarians, other legal scholars, and other academic disciplines.

The eJournal also includes working papers, forthcoming articles, recently published articles, and selected documents (such as White Papers, briefings, reports, course materials) on the practice of law librarianship. Submissions are welcome in all areas of law librarianship including:

  1. Administration, management, and leadership;
  2. Facility design and construction;
  3. Evaluating and marketing law library services;
  4. All aspects of public, technical, and technology services;
  5. Collection development, including sample collection development policies and procedures;
  6. Electronic resource management and development including licensing, digitization, and institutional repositories;
  7. Research and reference services; and
  8. Legal research instruction teaching methods and substantial or innovative course materials.

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