Aaron Swartz - John Palfrey

HLS Goes Open Access, Unanimously

March 30, 2026May 7, 2008 by John Palfrey

I’m just delighted that the Harvard Law School faculty has voted unanimously to adopt an open access policy. This policy is consistent with the policy adopted by the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences earlier this year. Here is what we approved: “The Faculty of the Harvard Law School is committed to disseminating the fruits … Read more

OpenLibrary.org

March 30, 2026October 23, 2007 by John Palfrey

There’s enormous promise in the Open Library project, which we’re hearing about today at Berkman’s lunch event from Aaron Swartz. The idea is wonderfully simple: to create a single web page per book. That web page can aggregate lots of data and metadata about each book. In turn, the database can be structured to indicate … Read more