The development of library-led publishing services at the University of Utah

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Cracking the code: illuminating new directions in scholarly communications and publishing initiatives

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Web-Scale Discovery and Federated Search

In stark contrast to the library card catalogs of old, today’s library search interfaces offer much more than one-dimensional, item-specific searching. Users are now engaged in a process of discovery in which they are empowered to control not only the sources of content being searched, but also the context into which information is delivered, and the platform onto which information is synthesized. By eliminating the barriers to information discovery, law libraries can position themselves as true partners in this process, defining their mission in new ways, and providing critical services in an ever-complex information ecosystem

Discovery Layers in Law Libraries: A progress report on how our institutions are implementing this new technology

Law libraries in particular are faced with unique challenges in the selection, implementation, and deployment of these new tools. The purpose of this article is to provide an update on the status of discovery layers in law libraries and to address some of the issues specific to discovery layers in the legal information environment

Adopting DOI in Legal Citation: A Roadmap for the Legal Academy

A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a unique string of numbers, letters, and symbols used to identify web-based information assets such as articles, multimedia items, and datasets. A digital object minted with a DOI will be persistently discoverable through this identifier, as long as it lives on the Web. DOIs are already ubiquitous in citations in the medical and scientific literature, primarily because the discovery of, access to, and linkages between the scholarship in these disciplines happens almost exclusively online. As is true with most content on the web, scholarly content in the sciences is published on multiple platforms and may be archived in multiple locations. In light of the fact that one may be hard-pressed to create a reliable static URL that other researchers can refer to under these circumstances, those who publish in the sciences have arrived at a consensus that DOIs are the gold standard for making research outputs easier to find, use, and share.Why, then, has the legal academy largely eschewed DOIs for legal citation? Discussions are certainly taking place, but currently there are no practical guidelines for implementing DOIs in legal citations. The Bluebook takes no position on them and authors and law review editors either ignore them or are largely unaware of their benefits.This paper argues that the implementation and development of a standard for DOI in legal citation is long past due. It will lay out a roadmap for legal scholars, institutions, and vendors for implementing DOI, with helpful tips for authors, librarians, and law journals on minting DOIs; and will provide examples for the Bluebook on what a rule for integrating DOI in legal citation might look like

Legal Scholarship in the Digital Domain: A Technical Roadmap for implementing the Durham Statement

Legal Scholarship in the Digital Domain: A Technical Roadmap for implementing the Durham Statemen

Ending Law Review Link Rot: A Plea for Adopting DOI

As librarians, we do a fair amount of research online for ourselves and the faculty and students we serve. As researchers, we know that there is nothing more frustrating than encountering a dead link to a much-needed article, particularly when there are deadlines to meet. Dead links (link/ reference rot) can be a particularly frequent occurrence for law review articles because the law review societies that publish them have not yet adopted standards for preserving online access to them, particularly the adoption of a standard for implementing persistent URLs. This Practical Insight is a plea to law reviews and law librarians who manage law review content to adopt the DOI, or Digital Object Identifier standard. A brief description of DOI will be provided, followed by instructions for minting a DOI and integrating DOI URLs into the metadata record of a law review article

Creating Persistent Law Review Article Links with Digital Object Identifiers

A case study for how to use digital object identifiers (DOIs) to make online journals more accessible and improve their site user reports

Ending Law Review Link Rot: A Plea for Adopting DOI

Though the vast majority of law reviews are now published online, very few law review publishers use persistent URLs, like DOI, to provide stable online access. The purpose of this article is to encourage law reviews to implement DOI, and demystifies the process for doing so