Stephanie Plotin has posted Legal Scholarship, Electronic Publishing, and Open Access: Transformation or Steadfast Stagnation? (Law Library Journal, Vol. 101, p. 31, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This article uses a social shaping of technology perspective, which studies the complex interactions between technology and the culture of a discipline, to investigate the evolution of legal scholarship in the digital age, and to determine how the open access movement has influenced various forms of legal scholarship, particularly law reviews, their online companions, and legal blogs.
I just read this. Useful.
If I might get on my soapbox for a few seconds, institutional encouragement for open access should be a priority for every faculty.
