Subject: [Foundation-l] Info/Law blog: Using Wikisource as an Alternative     Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:41:45 +0100 From: David Gerard

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2009/06/19/using-wikisource-as-an-alter...

Interesting. How well does this fit with what Wikisource does?

It has been published, and the ability to link to related documents is a feature of OA on Wikisource. I think we should be encouraging this, as the flow on effect is that scholars will work on transcriptions of those related texts which may not be available elsewhere on the Internet in an accessible manner. e.g. references to old journal articles which have been lost to time.

I can understand German Wikisource not wanting to accept OA journal articles, as policing self-publishing will require more work. English Wikisource has a history of being the lower quality project, so we can be the test bed without any loss of quality. ;-)

-- John Vandenberg