Free to Access and Use: A New Repository of Legal Scholarship Goes Live

The just launched NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository comes from New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO) and The Berkeley Electronic Press. According to an announcement the resource, “provides a free and persistent point of access for working papers, reports, lecture series, workshop presentations, and other scholarship created by faculty at NELLCO member institutions. Five NELLCO members - Yale, Cornell, University of Connecticut, Suffolk, and Fordham - have created publication series within the repository for launch. Over 75 publications have been posted to date (all freely available) , in series such as Yale’s Occasional Papers and Cornell’s International Speaker Series. Based on the results of early adopters, the NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository may expand to include other participants from NELLCO’s membership roster of sixty-five law libraries. Every publication series within the NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository has its own unique identity, including a description of the sponsoring research unit, logos, and links back to relevant faculty pages. These series feed into a single, searchable collection. Visitors to the site can easily browse papers by subject, author, and so forth. Because of Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliance, content is discoverable from a variety of locations and methods, including web search engines. Readers can also sign up to receive custom email notifications of newly posted papers. Citations are delivered directly to their desktop, with links to full text.”