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The Future of Legal Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2012

John Bell
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Abstract

This article is based on a presentation given by John Bell at the annual conference of The Society of Legal Scholars (SLS)1 held in Bristol in September 2012. His talk reflects the immediate challenges facing law schools, academic lawyers and the legal publishing industry in the light of the recent Finch Report2 and the subsequent response by the Government3 whereby it has adopted an open access policy to publicly funded research.

Keywords

higher educationfundingopen accesslegal publishingacademic
Type
Current Issues
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , December 2012 , pp. 314 - 317
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2012. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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1 http://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/

2 Finch, Janet. Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications: report of the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings. Research Information Network, 2012. http://www.researchinfonet.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Finch-Group-report-FINAL-VERSION.pdf

3 Letter to Dame Janet Finch on the Government Response to the Finch Group Report: “Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications”. 2012. http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/science/docs/l/12-975-letter-government-response-to-finch-report-research-publications.pdf

4 The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the new system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions (HEIs). It has replaced the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) and will be completed in 2014. http://www.ref.ac.uk/