Anyway, if you’re into law and open source, you could do a lot worse than to check it out. You can download a PDF of the entire thing, or order a print version via Lulu (which is very cool).

I guess I’m supposed to be neutral given that I run a lot of the reviews, copyedit and put the thing together, but the highlights for me are probably Silvia Pfeiffer’s article on open standards for video codecs in HTML5, which is well-written and extremely topical at the moment, and Susannah Sheppard’s article on the potential for competition law to affect Free Software, which is something I hadn’t directly considered before.

We’ve reached an interesting stage in the development of the journal. It’s now clear that it has a high degree of FOSS community support, and we are beginning to get the same from the academic community. Much work is still to be done though. We desperately need more submissions, could do with a more streamlined workflow, and on an ongoing basis we will require a more permanent governance structure.

One of the things that has helped most in achieving visibility is being part of the OCLC OAIster database. This is replicated across lots of libraries, as part of their ‘find an eJournal’ systems. It means that more academics and students are more likely to be able to find the publication without doing a web search.

We also now deposit DOI numbers with CrossRef – this helps articles maintain their authority if they get distributed across the web or hosted by some other server (as our licence policy allows).