ULV Law Review is First Primary Law Journal in California to Adopt Open Access Principles

ULV Law Review is First Primary Law Journal in California to Adopt Open Access
Principles

ONTARIO, Calif., April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of La Verne
College of Law is leading the way in providing open access to legal
scholarship. The provisionally American Bar Association-approved* law school's
flagship journal, the University of La Verne Law Review, is the first primary
law review in California to join Science Commons' Open Access Law Program.
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As a member of the Open Access Law Program, the University of La Verne Law
Review will:
-- Observe a shorter than usual time frame for licensing, and support the
use of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License rather
than standard copyright terms
-- Expect of its authors that an electronic version of their edited
articles will be made available in an Open Access Repository
-- Post its current publication agreement on its Web site

"In the digital era, educational institutions have an unprecedented
opportunity to help make knowledge, including legal knowledge, as freely
available as possible," said Associate Professor Diane Klein, one of the
faculty advisors to ULV's law review. "In adopting Science Commons' Open
Access Law Journal Principles, the University of La Verne Law Review joins
elite publications such as the Duke Law Journal, the Texas Law Review and the
Michigan Law Review in expressing its commitment to sharing legal knowledge. I
truly believe that this is the trend of the future, and we can all be proud
that someday we will look back and remember that our law review was one of
those that got there first."
First published as the Journal of Juvenile Law in 1977, ULV College of Law
spent the 2007-2008 academic year reorganizing, including moving to a
twice-yearly publication schedule. This month, the law review will publish its
first Symposium Issue, on the subject of child soldiers. Volume 30's Symposium
Issue of the University of La Verne Law Review will feature scholarship on the
topic, "The Organic Internet and the Digital Revolutionary," and will be
published under a Creative Commons license.
To learn more about the University of La Verne Law Review or to become a
subscriber, visit the Law Review's Web site. For more information about
admission to ULV College of Law, contact its Office of Admissions at
lawadm@ulv.edu or (909) 460-2001.
About the University of La Verne College of Law
Located in Ontario, Calif., the University of La Verne College of Law
serves over four million people as the only ABA-approved law school in Inland
Southern California and an additional 2.2 million people in San Gabriel Valley
and Eastern Los Angeles County. For more information about the College of Law,
please call (909) 460-2001 or visit the Web at http://law.ulv.edu.
* The University of La Verne College of Law has been provisionally
approved by the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions
to the Bar of the American Bar Association since 2006. The Section of
Legal Education may be contacted at 321 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL
60610 or by phone at (312) 988-6738.

SOURCE University of La Verne College of Law

Christi Fish, +1-909-390-1239, ext. 105, cfish@wilkinguge.com, for University
of La Verne College of Law