This week (19-25 October) is International Open Access Week.
Increasing consolidation and commercial control over all aspects of knowledge comes at a cost. This year’s theme challenges us to consider the financial, human, and environmental costs of creating, sharing, and sustaining knowledge—particularly when these costs are driven by private rather than public interests.
Committed to the wide and unrestricted dissemination of knowledge Law, Technology and Humans encourages scholarship that reflects on how technology is changing law, regulation and normative conduct and also how law, regulation and normative conduct effects local and global challenges and opportunities from technological change. Importantly, the journal's research and scholarship is accessible to all, without paywalls and via best practice in open access practices.
Authors retain copyright and articles are licenced via Creative Commons to make published articles more readily available and useable. There are no APCs (Article Processing Charges). Authors can submit and publish at no cost.
The Journal publishes three issues annually and is supported by a small editorial team advised by an international editorial board. The Journal is hosted in the School of Law, QUT and is part of a small collection of Diamond open access journals in QUT Open Press.
Law, Technology and Humans is indexed widely and included in the larges global index of open access journals - the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals). DOAJ membership is a clear statement of intent and proves a commitment to quality, peer-reviewed open access.
All queries related to the Journal can be sent to Chief Editor Professor Kieran Tranter lawtechhum@qut.edu.au
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