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Friday, July 15, 2005

BLOGOSCOPY

From Eugene Volokh’s website Volokh Conspiracy(Volokh is a law professor at UCLA):


A Lesson for Law Reviews, and for Authors:

A friend of mine and I were e-mailing about various offers he had pending for a law review article he'd written, and in passing he mentioned this:

'[One of the journals] forbid[s] web publication of their articles, which is an absolute deal-breaker...'

I was pleased to hear him say that, and I think more authors should take this view. We want more readers, and these days Web publication is critical to getting more readers. And I think law journals should take the same view… Fortunately, he reported that the journal ultimately relented, 'and sent me an e-mail offering to allow web publication…'
Posted at: 7/15/2005 11:51:00 PM