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UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT YourL InformationI ConnectionBRwww.lib.uconn.eduARISeptember/OctoberES 2007 Third Dodd Prize in Human Rights to be Awarded Sen. Dodd Nuremberg Book Signing Set, Yale Law School Dean to Speak Richard Veilleux 24-hour period will for human rights abuses, develop human rights law, and not only allow the advance the rule of law in countries transitioning from he third biennial Thomas J. Dodd Prize in participants and periods of abuse. International Justice and Human Rights will guests a rare opportu- Founded in 1998 with support from Amnesty be awarded jointly on Oct. 1 to the Center for nity to spend some International and the United Nations Voluntary Fund T time together, but will for Victims of Torture, the CJA has won judgments Justice and Accountability and Mental Disability Rights International. also give the Univer- against a Bosnian war criminal, a mayor of Beijing, two The 11 a.m. ceremony, on the plaza of the sity community a Salvadoran ministers of defense and a vice minister of Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, is the first of three chance to immerse defense, a Honduran chief of military intelligence, a human rights related events that will open the month. itself in a field that Chilean death squad member and a Haitian parliamen- The second, which follows the prize ceremony, is a has become a very tary leader. 1:30 p.m. program and book signing with U.S. Sen. important part of Mental Disability Rights International was Christopher Dodd, whose first book, Letters from UConn’s academic identity,” says Thomas Wilsted, founded in 1993. MDRI is the world’s leading Nuremberg: My Father’s Narrative of a Quest for Justice, was director of the Dodd Center. international human rights group dedicated to the released Sept. 11. Then, at 4 p.m. on Oct. 2, Harold The Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) is protection of people with mental Koh, dean of the Yale Law School and an internation- an international human rights organization dedicated to disabilities. MDRI works to promote ally acclaimed leader in human rights, will deliver the ending torture and other severe human rights abuses the human rights and full participation 13th Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished around the world, and advancing the rights of survi- in society of children and adults with Lecture on Human Rights, “Repairing our Human vors to seek truth, justice and redress. The San mental disabilities worldwide. MDRI Harold Koh Rights Reputation.” Francisco based non-governmental organization uses has worked in 24 countries throughout “Clustering these three wonderful events into a litigation to hold perpetrators individually accountable Continued on page 6 Phase Two of Connecticut History Online Unveiled Maps, Artifacts, Newspapers, and Oral Histories Now Available to Researchers Suzanne Zack audio clips, oral history holdings of more than 400,000 Connecticut images for transcripts, artifacts, the first part of the project. This phase of the project esearchers will have 3,000 new images maps, and costumes includes images and additional types of material from Rdocumenting life in 19th and early 20th century from the original the Connecticut State Library, the New Haven Museum Connecticut and America at their fingertips following participating institutions, and Historical Society and the initial partners. the completion of the second phase of Connecticut along now with the “The new software used in the site enables History Online (CHO), an electronic repository Connecticut State researchers to view images with an increased level of Civil War naval officer’s featuring one-of-a-kind treasures from the collections hat owned by Captain Library, and the New detail using a new image standard, JPEG2000, which of the Connecticut Historical Society, the Thomas J. James Harman Ward Haven Museum and will be particularly noticeable when looking at very (1806-1861) of Hartford, Dodd Center, Mystic the first Union Naval Historical Society. large and highly detailed items such as maps and Seaport, the Connecticut Officer killed in the Civil “This is an exciting ‘birds-eye views,’” Wilsted said. State Library, and the War. Courtesy of the milestone in the life of Made possible by a National Leadership Grant Connecticut Historical New Haven Museum and Society. Connecticut History Continued on page 2 Historical Society. Online,” said Thomas Begun in 2002, the Wilsted, director of the Dodd Center. “CHO’s updated first phase of the project database now includes more than 15,000 images with primarily involved succinct descriptions which reflect Connecticut’s graphics. The second social, educational, political, civic, and cultural life phase significantly from 1800 to 1950, making it the largest collection of expands the content to Connecticut digital images available via the Web.” Cover illustration for Harvard-Yale Regatta reflect the diversity of the The first participating members in the initiative, the magazine story, circa partners and includes Dodd Center, the Connecticut Historical Society, and 1900. Courtesy of Mystic Wedding shoes of Catherine Wadsworth (1774-1841) of Seaport, Mystic, CT. manuscripts, broadsides, Mystic Seaport Museum, culled just a fraction of their Hartford. Courtesy of the Connecticut Historical Society. R O M T H E V I C E P R O V O S T An Exciting Year Lies Ahead of Us Changing Legal Publication Models Academic and Commercial Repositories Promote Scholarly Discourse Brinley Franklin, vice provost University of Connecticut Libraries Lee Sims his promises to be an exciting year egal scholarship unfinished manuscript of an Tat the University of Connecticut. The University has new Lhas changed. In The UConn Libraries’ Scholarly Communications article about the U.S. News leadership in President Michael Hogan. Our Academic the past, the primary Team meets regularly to discuss how to promote & World Report law school Plan, led by Provost Peter Nicholls, points the way for the forum for legal scholarly discourse, handle copyright issues, and rankings on SSRN. To date it University of Connecticut to focus on the environment, scholarship was the protect author rights. The team is interested in all has been downloaded 2,794 health and human behavior, and education and workforce student-edited law forums for scholarly communication including the times. The final draft development while simultaneously emphasizing research, review or law journal. field of academic legal publishing. continues to be downloaded learning, outreach, globalization, and diversity. Under this old model, at the rate of about six times The UConn Libraries are engaged in a number of scholars with new ideas would submit articles to per week. SSRN reports this article, through all its strategic initiatives this year to support the University’s journals and law reviews for publication. Student various drafts, is ranked 318 for all time downloads. researchers, teachers, and learners as they strive to editors would review each article, and, under the There was a robust discussion of its contents while discover, develop, and disseminate knowledge. supervision of a faculty member, accept or reject an the drafts were being posted on several influential Our libraries, as one of the 19 members of the article for publication. Then, hordes of law students legal blogs such as “Out of the Jungle,” “Tax Prof Boston Library Consortium, will be digitizing important would check the article citations. Relatively inexpen- Blog,” “Money Law” and others. At the head of the components of our collections and making many unique sive to produce, student-edited journals and reviews final draft Professor Seto states, “I am very grateful for and rare resources available to the greater scholarly have been an easy way to disseminate ideas through- the comments, too numerous to mention, given in community through the Open Content Alliance (OCA). out the academic legal community. response to my SSRN postings.” The OCA, administered by the Internet Archive, encour- Scholarship and publication under this model has At this point, none of these repositories provide a ages the greatest possible degree of access to contributed changed the face of the law. One well-known example forum for a robust scholarly dialogue on the repository materials that are in the public domain. The UConn is the famous article, “The Right to Privacy,” by Louis site itself. When scholarly debate can occur in one Libraries also will be planning and piloting a “dark” archive Brandeis and Samuel Warren. Published in the 1890 place the new model will be complete. Regardless, of the Libraries’ various digital collections to ensure the issue of the Harvard Law Review, this single article is, SSRN, bepress, and academic repositories appear to long term preservation of these digital resources. arguably, the starting point for all modern privacy law in be leading the new wave in legal scholarly communi- During the year, library staff will work with several the United States. cation. There will always be student-edited journals instructors to deliver a limited number of full-length Recently, the face of legal academic publishing and they will always have their place in the firmament movies owned or licensed by the Libraries to their classes has been changing. While student-edited journals have of legal publishing but the model appears to be through streaming video. In addition, the Libraries’ continued to provide a forum for legal scholars, the shifting. course reserve infrastructure will be redesigned for Fall new model of academic legal publishing now includes Lee Sims, head, reference services, University of Connecticut 2008 to create an online reserve management system that open access repositories maintained by individual School of Law Library, and member, UConn Libraries’ scholarly communications team will enable UConn faculty to more seamlessly upload universities, such as the University of Connecticut (see digitized files to the University’s course management http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/) and consortia system, HuskyCT, and easily view existing materials on repositories, such as the Legal Scholarship Repository reserve.

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