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Contents

  • 1 Open Research across Disciplines
  • 2 Law
    • 2.1 Case Studies
    • 2.2 Examples of open research practices
  • 3 Resources
      • 3.0.1 General Resources
      • 3.0.2 Open Methods
      • 3.0.3 Open Data
      • 3.0.4 Open Outputs

Open Research across Disciplines

How the principles of open research can be applied to your discipline

Law

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Case Studies

University of Surrey case study: A corpus approach to Roman law

Examples of open research practices

Open Outputs: “Laws (ISSN 2075-471X) is an international, peer-reviewed, quick-refereeing scholarly open access journal (free for readers), which publishes works from extensive fields including legal systems, legal theory, legal institutions, and a broad range of legal subjects. To guarantee a rapid refereeing and editorial process, Laws follows standard publication practices in the natural sciences.” https://www.mdpi.com/journal/laws

Resources

General Resources

  • Guide on accessing open legal resources – includes lists of books, journals and repository sites. https://libguides.ials.sas.ac.uk/openfreeresources

Open Methods

  • Journal article on the surge of open research in law and its benefits. https://www.bjutijdschriften.nl/tijdschrift/lawandmethod/2016/04/lawandmethod-D-15-00005

Open Data

  • Journal of Open Access to Law. https://ojs.law.cornell.edu/index.php/joal/index
  • Open access case databases.
    • https://www.bailii.org/
    • https://www.legislation.gov.uk/

Open Outputs

  • Preprint repository.
    • https://osf.io/preprints/lawarxiv
    • https://law.bepress.com/

 

This page is adapted and extended from: Farran, E. K., Silverstein, P., Ameen, A. A., Misheva, I., & Gilmore, C. (2020, December 15). Open Research: Examples of good practice, and resources across disciplines. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/3r8hb

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