Most critically, it doesn't adequately address the reuse rights needed for the public to do
more than simply read individual articles,» says Heather Joseph, executive director of the
Scholarly Publishing and Academic
Resources Coalition (SPARC).
Doing so effectively calls for research skills beyond those that students acquire through working with domestic legal
resources.56 Mary Rumsey explains that students must go beyond their dependence on domestic databases to learn how to access the different
resources relevant to international and comparative law.57 She describes, as examples, the need to find customary international law through treaties, laws of other nations, diplomatic correspondence, and
scholarly works, and she points out that civil law research requires much
more emphasis on statutes and scholarship than on the case law that plays such a dominant role in American legal analysis.58 While there have been significant advances in access to foreign and international legal sources, there are still substantial barriers, 59 and the research methods needed to obtain these
resources can be different (in ways either subtle or stark) from those that apply to domestic law.