Sentences with phrase «open access law»

Three years after the White House's groundbreaking open access memo, we may be on the verge of passing an open access law.

TAGS: Open access law journals; Open access to legal scholarship; Legal scholarly communication.

TITLE: Open Access Law Program.

TITLE: Open Access Law: Adopting Journals.

IDENTIFIER: http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/oalaw/oalawjournals/ DESCRIPTION: The listed journals have adopted Science Commons» Open Access Law Journal Principles or have policies consistent with them.

It helps fill a gap in Internet access to free, open access law scholarship

In this issue of Lawyers We Love, we spoke with Vincent Morris at Arkansas» innovative legal startup Open Access Law Firm.

Vincent Morris, co-founder of Arkansas» innovative legal startup Open Access Law Firm, is one of the Lawyers We Love ™.

A second thing I'd like to point out is that the journal will be entirely open access, and will conform to Open Access Law Principles, following publications such as the Ottawa Law and Technology Journal, and the McGill Journal of Law and Health.

«Open Access Law Reviews blog Main Apple v. Bloggers: Judge says journalism shield laws don't apply»

Science Commons, a subset of the U.S. Creative Commons movement, has an Open Access Law Program.

So says Michael Carroll in The Movement for Open Access Law, a paper in the Villanova Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series.

In this contribution, I demonstrate the linkages between these movements and briefly outline the argument for open access law.

«The time has come for legal scholars and scholarly legal periodicals in the United States to join the movement for open access law.»

I recently reviewed the growing list of open access law journals, and re-read Louis Mirando's series on this topic:

On Friday, the Harvard Law School Library and Duke Law School's J. Michael Goodson Law Library and Center for the Public Domain will present a day - long workshop, Implementing the Durham Statement: Best Practices for Open Access Law Journals.

Not exact matches

«We need major reform of our laws, both internationally and domestically, to make open access the norm and ensure that sharing, promoting scientific progress, and exercising creative expression are not crimes,» says the EFF.

The majority opinion, issued by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, said that Hastings College of the Law's «all comers» policy, which required all groups to open all positions to all students, «is a reasonable, viewpoint - neutral condition on access to the student - organization forum.»

Although further U.S. aid to El Salvador seems a foregone conclusion, some congress people hope to make it conditional on assurances of open access to provide help to civilian victims of the civil war — a right recognized by international law.

Some, such as the Committee on Open Media, sought access for all under - represented groups, and a few, such as the Citizens Communications Law Center, offered pro bono legal assistance.

That's because when the law is an open - ended judgment call, whoever has access to the judgment makers gains the upper hand.

«However laudable the aim, we need to make sure that increasing access to government held information for those with a legitimate need to know does not also open the door to those who seek to buy, beguile or barter their way to information that is rightly denied to them in law.»

Based upon the legislative intent to promote open government and public accountability for governmental actions, Freedom of Information Law provides a means of access to the records of government, with certain Exceptions that are enumerated in Public Officers Law § 87 (2).

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer said that the state's Freedom of Information Law is a «vital tool in realizing open government» and that it has «necessary exceptions to full access to government functions» that include individuals» personnel records which contain private information.

True reform in the United States will be found when the ballot access laws are changed to open the ballots to all parties, and gerrymandering is outlawed so entrenched politicians can be voted out of office.

Back in 1985, the NY Post's Fred Dicker requested access to the Assembly Democrats» daily private confab, and lawmakers responded by rewriting the Open Meetings Law to provide explicit, blanket authority for legislators to conference outside the public eye «to discuss anything including a matter of public business, notwithstanding the member of staff or guests.»

In the suit, they argue that the bill was only able to pass because state officials violated Open Meeting Laws, the senate suspended rules to prevent people from speaking, lobbyists and public advocates were denied access to the Senate chamber, and the Governor unjustifiably issued a message of necessity on the bill.

By writing Town Hall transparency into law we can make certain every citizen gets open and equal access to information about local public expenditure.

The state Committee on Open Government, citing case law, has opined that «merely repeat [ing] citations referenced in the initial denial of access» can not «be characterized as having «fully explained» the reasons for further denial.»

Madam Djaba made the appeal to the Airline on Monday in her address at the opening ceremony of the introduction of a short course on Access to Justice for PWDs at the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana (UG), Accra.

WOODSTOCK >> Disputes involving the Woodstock Library brought state Committee on Open Government Executive Director Robert Freeman to the town Wednesday for a discussion of state law providing for open meetings and public access to recoOpen Government Executive Director Robert Freeman to the town Wednesday for a discussion of state law providing for open meetings and public access to recoopen meetings and public access to records.

In this Sunshine Week, when we annually consider the importance of open government, Rensselaer County should remember the law requires a «presumption of access,» as Mr. Freeman puts it.

Hammond, who says he battled TAMU for months to gain access to documents under a state open records law, agrees on one point with Davis: «I think that there are many other schools that have issues like Texas A&M.»

Michael Halpern will run a session on Open Access to Your Emails: Tensions Between Academic Freedom and Open Records Laws at the annual AAAS meeting in San Jose, California, on 13 February 2015.

For this not to happen, and for there to be sustainable peace as well as credible progress against poverty before 2030, then what needs to be in place are «responsive and legitimate institutions» that «encourage the rule of law, property rights, freedom of speech and the media, open political choice, access to justice, and accountable government and public institutions» (UN-High-Level-Panel, 2013: 9).

By giving these schools true control over their programs, staff, and curricula, and by opening them to all families, authors of the charter school law resurrected the true American vision of public schooling: equal access to great instruction and accountability for results.

The most remarkable thing about the Ph.D. in Education is open access to faculty from all Harvard graduate and professional schools, including the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Harvard Kennedy School, the Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

They can outsource school operations to private entities that can evade transparency laws for open meetings, public access to records, and financial disclosures.

These laws exist to ensure that state government (including all public agencies, public schools, and other state run entities) will provide open access to the records and information possessed by the state.

What can be done to ensure open and equitable access to information while complying with the law?

The Reader Privacy Act updates state law to safeguard the free exchange of ideas and open discourse by ensuring that government and third parties can not access Californians» reading records without proper justification.

Unlike banks that are open to anyone, laws require credit unions like RBFCU to have a defined field of membership, which means you have to be a member to access the products and services credit unions provide.

It is significant that the new law requires shelters «shall be open to the public after normal business hours, including evenings and weekends, to increase access for the purpose of adoption».

TrueBlue Mosaic Status Members that have TrueBlue Mosaic status will receive certain additional benefits in connection with the Program: 1) Complimentary access to Even More Speed at airports where Even More Speed is available and open; 2) The ability to redeem Points for Even More Space seats (the amount of Points required for redemption will vary by flight); 3) Early boarding of JetBlue flights (i.e., flights operated by JetBlue); 4) Their first and second checked bag free on JetBlue flights (subject to weight and size restrictions and exceptions for itineraries including flights marketed or operated by other carriers); 5) Complimentary alcoholic beverages onboard (not available on flights operating with express or no inflight service [flights under 340 miles] or where prohibited by law.

The outdated law gives mining companies «free and open access» to the majority of U.S. public land without taxpayer compensation.

Another example is where power utility companies water down the system connection rules, which require utility companies by law to allow PPS companies to connect to their power grids based on the principle of open access.

UCS» report laments scientists at public universities, research institutes, and federal agencies are subjected to demands for information under a variety of state open - records laws and the 1967 federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which was designed to hold government agencies accountable by providing the public with access to records from any federal agency.

Seemingly contradicting this statement, Michael Halpern, CSD program manager and author of Freedom to Bully, says open - records laws should be amended to limit information available to the public, including limits on public access to e-mails between scientists, research notes, and primary data, telling the Associated Press, «We don't want to work in an environment where every keystroke is subject to public records.»

Rather than rest on its laurels, the LII continues to be a leader today in providing free and open access to law.

Not all the technology that may lead to open access to the law need to come from lawyers, and so it's quite likely that not all the ideas about open access to the law need to come from lawyers.