The numbers are in for July 2017! During the month of July Scholarly Commons had 24,286 full-text downloads and 46 new submissions. This brings the total works in the repository to 13,401. W&L Law scholarship was read at 2,501 institutions across 159 different countries!
Scholarly Commons, the law library’s institutional repository at W&L, received a mention and praise today on NPR’s Fresh Air. Host Terry Gross interviewed Linda Greenhouse about her new book, The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right (with Michael J. Graetz). Greenhouse names the Powell Papers at W&L as a source for the papers of the Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. and praises their ease of accessibility online.
Many thanks to our Special Collections Librarian and Archivist John Jacob and to the law library staff who work on digitizing and adding these collections to Scholarly Commons.
Listen to the full story linked below. The law library’s mention may be heard at the 25 minute mark.
Tracing The ‘Rise Of The Judicial Right’ To Warren Burger’s Supreme Court
The Law Library at Washington and Lee University School of Law is excited and pleased to announce that our institutional repository, Scholarly Commons, has reached an important milestone – 1,000,000 downloads!
Scholarly Commons preserves and disseminates the intellectual output and history of the law school. It provides unfettered access to our faculty’s scholarship and our student run journals. In addition to the works of our faculty, researchers world- wide may access the comprehensive archives of the Washington and Lee Law Review, Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice, and Journal of Energy, Climate and the Environment and the rich materials digitized and made available from the Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives. Content from Scholarly Commons has been downloaded by users in North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Australia, and Africa and in a total of 74 countries.
Join us in celebrating this exciting milestone and thanks to all that played a part in making it happen!