Information access

Information access covers many issues including copyright, open source, privacy, and security.Groups such as the American Library Association, the American Association of Law Libraries, Ralph Nader's Taxpayers Assets Project have advocated for free access to legal information.The vendor neutral citation movement in the legal field is working to ensure that courts will accept citations from cases on the web which do not have the traditional (copyrighted) page numbers from the West Publishing company.The Wired Magazine Article Who Owns The Law is an introduction to the access to legal information issue.They feel it is a legal and moral obligation to provide access (including to people with disabilities or impairments) to information through the services and programs they offer.
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