Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-dsjbd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-28T01:04:49.071Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Open Access in the USA: A Ridiculously Brief and Hopelessly Incomplete Overview1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2017

Mark Engsberg
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Open access (OA) in the United States is similar to a crazy quilt. There is a patchwork of OA policy and practice among the many federal, state, and local jurisdictions in the United States, as well as individual policies and practices in individual institutions, whether those are academic, business, or governmental. By way of a reminder, the United States is a federal republic consisting of 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., five major territories, and various possessions. Most readers know that already, but what one should also understand is that each of the states and territories has its own policies with respect to OA, as does the Federal government.

Type
Articles
Information
International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , March 2017 , pp. 42 - 44
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2017 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

2

©2017 Mark Engsberg.  The author is Director of Library Services and Assistant Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

1

This is the summary text of an oral presentation, part of a panel on the subject of Open Access.  It was delivered at the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LAW LIBRARIES, 35th Annual Course on International Law and Legal Information, Common Law Perspectives in a Global Context, Keble College, Oxford, 31 July–3 August 2016.  The author's task was to present an introduction to Open Access in the US for an audience composed of many non-Americans and to do so in a very restrictive time limit.  As such, the level of information in this presentation is very introductory.