Law Library Guides: Open Scholarship at UVA Law: Open Access Resources

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Casebooks, Datasets, Resources

Consider assigning open access textbooks or resources for your course. Here are some options:

“Inexpensive and Open-Access Casebooks” | A curated list of resources
Arguably one of the most comprehensive resources for OER Legal Resources. A curated list from a trusted source. Compiled by James Grimmelman, Professor of Law at Cornell Law School and Cornell Tech and director of CTRL-ALT, the Cornell Tech Research Lab in Applied Law and Technology.
H2O: Law Casebooks, Courses, and Supplements
Open platform for sharing and creating open resources. 365 casebooks, 6,616 legal documents, and 128 authors hosted as of 11/2022. Built by Harvard Law School.
CALI: Law Casebooks and Supplements
100% Free. Creative Commons licensed. Peer-reviewed. Backed by additional CALI resources. eLangdell® Press casebooks are permissively licensed for use, adoption and modification. Available in multiple formats.
Open Textbook Library: Law Textbooks
A service of the Open Education Network at the University of Minnesota. Featuring the OEN's catalog of Open Access law textbooks.
UVA Main Grounds Library OER Libguide
Note: For legal resources scroll down to the LAW section or click HERE.
Additional Resources of interest: Open Access Language resources.

Benefits of Open Access

Benefits of Open Access by Danny Kingsley and Sarah Brown, https://oaaustralasia.org/ CC-BY

Open Access Publishing Resources

UVA Libraries support faculty who would like to publish open access resources.

Want to Make Your Work Open Access? The Library Can Help
An October 2022 Interview with Brandon Butler, UVA Law ‘08, Director of Information Policy, UVA Libraries outlining the ways in which UVA Libraries have worked to support Open Scholarship . A clear overview of coordinated OA Resources including publishing tools that are available to every UVA scholar and researcher.
UVA Library’s Affordability and Equity Grant Program
Provides support in the form of grants to faculty who want to adopt ($1K awards), adapt ($2.5K awards), or create ($5K awards) open educational resources (OER). 2022-23 is the first year of a two-year pilot program; projects will be selected through a competitive process. Projects are to be selected through a competitive process with applications accepted on a rolling basis. Sponsored by the Jefferson Trust and offered by the University of Virginia Library (Main Grounds). This program is open to anyone holding a faculty appointment at the University of Virginia who is teaching a two-, three-, or four-credit course.
Apply for an Affordability and Equity grant
Copyright and Open Licenses for OER in 3 Minutes
A video from UVA Library. Created by Brandon Butler, UVA Law ‘08, Director of Information Policy, UVA Libraries.

Timeline of Open Scholarship Milestones

2020

UVA School of Data Science passes Tenure and Promotion guidelines which emphasize open scholarship and science. Creation of these guidelines are made with support from the Library’s Director of Information Policy.

2021

cOAlition S, a European Commission (EC) and European Research Council (ERC) group activates the Plan S project to guarantee Open Access to all EU research publications. “With effect from 2021*, all scholarly publications on the results from research funded by public or private grants provided by national, regional and international research councils and funding bodies, must be published in Open Access Journals, on Open Access Platforms, or made immediately available through Open Access Repositories without embargo.” LINK

May 5, 2021

University of Virgina's Open Access Guidelines are approved via online vote of the full Faculty Senate.

December 2021

UVA Law Library Launches Faculty Scholarship Repository. Built in-house with Open Source tools it does not rely upon Academic publishing behemoths like RELX/Elsevier. All metadata ownership and publishing configuration decisions remain local, under the control of the UVA Law faculty and Library.

2022

UVA Becomes a member of the Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship (HELIOS), a group of 90+ academic institutions promoting Open Scholarship through presentations of institutional best practices in areas of Finance and Policy, (i.e. guides for Provosts and Dean’s Offices) Services (Read: Libraries) and Infrastructure (read: IT and Library Technical/Web Services).

August 25, 2022

White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) issues a memorandum on Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research:
“When research is widely available to other researchers and the public, it can save lives, provide policymakers with the tools to make critical decisions, and drive more equitable outcomes across every sector of society,” said Dr. Alondra Nelson, head of OSTP. “The American people fund tens of billions of dollars of cutting-edge research annually. There should be no delay or barrier between the American public and the returns on their investments in research.

“This policy will likely yield significant benefits on a number of key priorities for the American people, from environmental justice to cancer breakthroughs, and from game-changing clean energy technologies to protecting civil liberties in an automated world.”

October 2022

UVa Law School launches the Center for Empirical Studies in Law.

October 2022

Virginia Law Review is a signatory to the Joint Law Review Statement on Data and Code Transparency. This statement commits VLR and 17 other US Law Reviews to the publication of all data and code used in empirical legal scholarship. Twitter announcement here.

November 4-5, 2022

The 16th annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies is sponsored by UVA Law, the Society for Empirical Legal Studies and the school’s Center for Empirical Studies in Law.