Scholastica: Scholastica is used by many law reviews for article submission. For assistance with the Law School's institutional subscription, contact Lorrie Ragland.
SSRN: Law faculty often post working and accepted papers and book chapters to the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) to increase the visibility of their scholarship. The Research and Academic Centers team will provide support to faculty who would like to upload their papers to SSRN, including to the University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics Research Paper Series and the University of Chicago Law School, Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series.
Faculty may submit papers for upload to SSRN through the following channels:
The OA movement focuses on the removal of barriers that stand between a user and information. OA literature, data, and education resources are "digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions" (Open Access Research Guide). The removal of barriers allows the scholarship to reach a wider audience, thus increasing its potential impact.
Chicago Unbound is the University of Chicago Law School's faculty scholarship repository, and this repository makes the full text of faculty scholarship available when permitted by applicable copyright law. For more information about Chicago Unbound, please see the Chicago Unbound page of this guide.
To provide more options for faculty to publish in open access journals, the University of Chicago Library has entered into agreements with publishers such as Cambridge University Press and Wiley Publishing to provide free open access publishing for University of Chicago faculty, students, and staff.
If you are interested in publishing a book open access, there is a helpful toolkit available.
For more information about open access publishing, including the work that the University of Chicago is doing to facilitate open access, please see the Open Access Research Guide from the Center for Digital Scholarship.
Similar to the OA movement, the OER movement seeks to decrease the barriers to access to educational materials. OERs are defined as "freely-accessible teaching, educational, and research materials that either exist in the public domain or are available to users via an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing." (Principles and Examples of OER, George Mason University). If you are interested in publishing course materials that are open access, please consider the below resources
Protect your copyright in your own scholarly work by adding language to your publishing agreements that preserves your right to use your scholarship on your personal websites, on course management websites, and for conferences and presentations. Some boilerplate addenda to publishing agreements are available below: