In part of my research for the Eduserv study on the use of open content licences, such as Creative Commons, by cultural heritage organisations, I ran into Spoken Word Services.  This site is an audio archive of BBC material held for access by educational institutions. It has an extremely informal End User Licence Agreement (EULA). [...]

In this post in the ongoing series on US law for foreign legal researchers, we will discuss the idea of judicial review and the case Marbury v. Madison. The opinion was written by Justice John Marshall, a very influential person in the history of the Supreme Court. Judicial review Judicial review is the idea that [...]

I’ve just finished reading John Willinsky‘s book The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship. In it he outlines the case for open access to academic publishing, and cites several reasons for open access. I want to highlight two: Greater citation and research impact – more access means more people see [...]