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Friday, May 29, 2009
New info on Lex Opus; an alternative to Expresso?
LexOpus (http://lexopus.wlu.edu) is a recently launched service at Washington and Lee Law School offering free online submissions to law journals. The service has two facets: 1) An author can make an article available to all interested law journals, inviting journals to make offers. Journals are able to limit by subject matter the articles that they see as open to offers. 2) An author can make offers to law journals in an author-specified journal list, LexOpus making on behalf of the author a short-term exclusive offer to each law journal in sequence. For non-peer-reviewed journals 'short term' is one week. Author offers continue past each journal's exclusive period, on a non-exclusive basis, until rejected by the journal or withdrawn by the author, but any journal with an exclusive period always has acceptance priority. An author can make a work 'open to offers' as well as submit to specific journals, or can do one or the other. As the system does permit uploading of revisions, authors might make working papers open to offers and then, if no acceptable offers have been received, when the finished work is available submit that version to specific law journals. Works can be suppressed from public view if the author so desires. Questions can be directed to: John Doyle Washington and Lee Law School Lexington, VA 24450
Posted by Dan Markel on May 29, 2009 at 06:40 PM in Life of Law Schools | Permalink
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These could be incredibly useful in certain circumstances, especially if your school does not subscribe to Expresso (or won't pay for it, anyway). For example, during my 2L summer I had an article I thought worth publication, but my law school would not pay to submit student research. So I manually submitted it (via email) to many journals, and used Expresso some others (paying for it myself). It worked OK (I got the article published), but it was a pretty big hassle.
Having another alternative would be great, if it works well.
Posted by: Kristopher Nelson | May 30, 2009 12:22:44 PM
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