The Journal of Space Law is on Now On-Line

November 3, 2008 at 9:33 am | Posted in Space Law, Space Law Current Events | 1 Comment

by Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz with the blog faculty

            Today, 32 years of the world’s most important writings on space law have just become more easily accessible. Today, volumes 1 through 31 of the Journal of Space Law, spanning from 1973-2005, was added to the HeinOnline Library.

  The Journal had a number of on-line companies from which to choose. It chose HeinOnline, first and foremost, because its contents are more widely available to libraries around the world. Its subscription rates make Hein Online contents more accessible to libraries with modest budgets. Over the years, we have received comments from lawyers and students alike saying they could often access a HeinOnline account when they could not access some of Hein’s larger, more expensive, competitors. Now, like the University of Mississippi School of Law Library, any library with a Hein subscription can make the Journal accessible.

            After speaking to a number of law librarians, the Journal also learned that many of them prefer the Hein format that provides an image of each original page, in its original full-page format. This preserves the original page as an historical and legal record and also facilitates more accurate citations.

            The National Center for Remote Sensing, Air, and Space Law is now engaged in a project that will create a searchable, cumulative index for all of the volumes, back to 1973. When completed, the index will be available on the Center’s website. In the meantime, searching on HeinOnline can be done by title or author name, as well as full-text searching of the collection or select periodicals.

Dr. Stephen Gorove

            Today, the intellectual heritage of some of the most important legal thinkers in space law, including the Journal’s founder the late Dr. Stephen Gorove, is more available to the world than it has ever been and for a very long time to come. We would like to think that Stephen would be proud.