Comments on: Using Wikisource as an Alternative Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2009/06/19/using-wikisource-as-an-alternative-open-access-repository-for-legal-scholarship/ Information, Law, and the Law of Information Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:08:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Links 22/06/2009: Mandriva Linux 2010 @ Alpha 1, Firefox 3.5 is Near | Boycott Novell http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2009/06/19/using-wikisource-as-an-alternative-open-access-repository-for-legal-scholarship/comment-page-1/#comment-90774 Links 22/06/2009: Mandriva Linux 2010 @ Alpha 1, Firefox 3.5 is Near | Boycott Novell Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:28:34 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/?p=585#comment-90774 [...] Using Wikisource as an Alternative Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship There are plenty of sites in the world that aim to serve as repositories for legal scholarship. Some of them are run by particular law schools and serve to advertise scholarship produced by that institution’s faculty. Others, like SSRN, aggregate scholarship from a variety of sources. Wikisource differs from all of them in that its mission is broader: Wikisource doesn’t want to be a scholarly archive, it wants to be a library. The very breadth and generality of that objective, however, gives Wikisource some advantages as an open-access repository that I don’t think have been adequately explored elsewhere. [...] [...] Using Wikisource as an Alternative Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship There are plenty of sites in the world that aim to serve as repositories for legal scholarship. Some of them are run by particular law schools and serve to advertise scholarship produced by that institution’s faculty. Others, like SSRN, aggregate scholarship from a variety of sources. Wikisource differs from all of them in that its mission is broader: Wikisource doesn’t want to be a scholarly archive, it wants to be a library. The very breadth and generality of that objective, however, gives Wikisource some advantages as an open-access repository that I don’t think have been adequately explored elsewhere. [...]

]]> By: Martin de la Iglesia http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2009/06/19/using-wikisource-as-an-alternative-open-access-repository-for-legal-scholarship/comment-page-1/#comment-90739 Martin de la Iglesia Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:35:49 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/?p=585#comment-90739 I wonder how exactly the OAI-PMH support in WikiSource works (if there is any)? E.g. only a small portion of Wikisource items can be found in Google Scholar by searching for "wikisource". I wonder how exactly the OAI-PMH support in WikiSource works (if there is any)? E.g. only a small portion of Wikisource items can be found in Google Scholar by searching for “wikisource”.

]]> By: Dr Klaus Graf http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2009/06/19/using-wikisource-as-an-alternative-open-access-repository-for-legal-scholarship/comment-page-1/#comment-90595 Dr Klaus Graf Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:16:40 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/?p=585#comment-90595 My Comment in German for the German Wikisource project: http://de.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Wikisource:Skriptorium&oldid=704342#Wikisource_als_Open-Access-Repositorium.3F OA-publishing should be tested in other wikis. My Comment in German for the German Wikisource project:

http://de.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Wikisource:Skriptorium&oldid=704342#Wikisource_als_Open-Access-Repositorium.3F

OA-publishing should be tested in other wikis.

]]> By: Michael Risch http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2009/06/19/using-wikisource-as-an-alternative-open-access-repository-for-legal-scholarship/comment-page-1/#comment-90590 Michael Risch Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:21:27 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/?p=585#comment-90590 It would be nice if one could opt-in from a variety of sources - SSRN for PDF, BEPress for Word, etc. to have the site scrape articles automatically. It would be nice if one could opt-in from a variety of sources – SSRN for PDF, BEPress for Word, etc. to have the site scrape articles automatically.

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