[LAW-LIB:57983] Previewing the New SSRN eJournal

From: Peoples, Lee (lpeoples@okcu.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 05 2009 - 06:50:45 PST

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    Randy Diamond and I are delighted to present the Legal Information &
    Technology eJournal to the law library community. The archive already
    includes over 150 papers and is growing daily. Subscribers will soon
    start receiving email issues announcing works in progress and recent
    publications. SSRN will issue a formal announcement soon, but we are
    pleased to provide a pre-launch viewing.

     

                View Papers:

    http://www.ssrn.com/link/Legal-Information-Technology.html

     

    Subscribe:

    http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Legal-Information-Technology

    (If you do not already have an SSRN account, you may subscribe to the
    ejournal through your law school's Legal Scholarship Network Site
    License: http://www.ssrn.com/SiteLic_orgSubscribers.cfm?netid=201
    <http://www.ssrn.com/SiteLic_orgSubscribers.cfm?netid=201>

     

                Journal Description:

    http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/lsn_legal-info-tech.html

     

    We thank the journal's founding sponsor MALLCO, the Mid-America Law
    Consortium for their generous support. Without MALLCO's backing, this
    would not have gotten off the ground so quickly. We also thank the
    advisory board for their encouragement and thoughtful ideas about
    direction and focus. And we thank Janet Sinder from LLJ, Mike Chiorazzi
    from LRSQ, Mark Engsberg from IJLI, and Mary Hotchkiss from Perspectives
    for their efforts to maximize availability of their journals' content on
    the new eJournal. One of our goals for the eJournal is to generate more
    articles for the professional literature.

     

    We are excited about the journal on several fronts. We aim to make it
    the premier eJournal in the field by featuring the works of law
    librarians and other academics. Obtaining feedback on works in progress,
    developing the profession's scholarly agenda, and presenting our work to
    a wider audience are just a few examples of the journal's potential. We
    hope it will inspire more of us to write, to share our work more readily
    within the profession, and to extend our knowledge to the broader legal
    academy and other disciplines interested in our field and expertise. The
    journal welcomes all significant contributions to legal information
    scholarship and to the practice of law librarianship
    http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/lsn_legal-info-tech.html

     

    We are in the process of inviting LLJ, LRSQ, IJLI, and Perspectives
    authors to post their works back to 2005 and welcome all other
    publications from that time frame fitting within the journal's subject
    matter. If you already have an SSRN account please upload your paper and
    classify it under the Legal Scholarship Network > LSN Subject Matter
    eJournals > Legal Information & Technology eJournal.

    If you do not have an SSRN account it is very easy to set one up and
    upload your paper for free at: http://www.ssrn.com

    We have also attempted to identify papers previously posted to SSRN for
    inclusion. In the short time frame we have been working, we will surely
    have missed some. If your paper is already on SSRN and we have not
    contacted you, please let us know and we can have it reclassified under
    the Legal Information & Technology eJournal.

    We hope you enjoy the eJournal and welcome your feedback and
    suggestions.

     

    Lee Peoples

    Randy Diamond

     

    Editors, Legal Information & Technology eJournal.

     

     



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