(PRWEB) June 26, 2013
The outstanding scholarship of faculty at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago has been downloaded far more than 3,000 occasions given that it was made accessible via the new John Marshall institutional repository, hosted on the Digital Commons platform.

Under the direction of Ramsey Donnell and Raizel Liebler, librarians in John Marshalls Louis L. Biro Law Library, the repository went on the internet in April 2013. Components can be accessed at http://repository.jmls.edu/

More than 350 John Marshall faculty articles published in law journals across the country are offered in PDF type through the institutional repository hosted by bepress (Berkeley Electronic Press). Even though most articles are obtainable for full-text download, other people have citation information for easier access.

Nowadays, Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is an quick way to search for faculty scholarship, but Donnell said the repository will give John Marshall faculty pieces a longer life since the functions can be more readily found employing Net searches.

Digital Commons delivers to a different audience, even though it will perform in tandem with SSRN, which is very best at disseminating current scholarship within a discipline. Digital Commons provides works to an interdisciplinary audience, and gives researchers the opportunity to find older scholarship utilizing internet searches, Donnell mentioned.

Donnell and Liebler worked with administrators and faculty to bring the repository to fruition. Faculty articles had been identified and downloaded pursuant to an arrangement with a industrial scholarship aggregator, and acceptable permissions were secured from the publishers to upload the content material to the repository.

The Digital Commons project is getting expanded over the summer time months to incorporate landing pages for John Marshalls journals and access to their archival concerns. The John Marshall Law Assessment and the Journal of Info Technologies and Privacy Law (formerly the Journal of Computer and Details Law), will supply on the web access with the Fall 2013 problems. The John Marshall Evaluation of Intellectual Property Law has often been an on the web publication, and its archives as well will be uploaded to the repository. The John Marshall journals will preserve their independent websites.

Collectively with those projects, Donnell and Liebler are functioning with faculty to expand the attain of faculty law evaluation articles.

The Best ten most downloaded articles demonstrate the breadth of John Marshall faculty scholarship:

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