Legal Commentary

John Doyle (the librarian par excellence at W/L) writes:

A new, free, law journal submissions system will be launched by mid-April. "LexOpus" will not simultaneously submit works to multiple journals. Instead, an author selects an ordered list of journals and the system makes the work available to each journal serially on a 7 day exclusive basis. If the current journal rejects, or the 7 days elapse, then the work moves on to the next journal in the author's sequence. A journal whose exclusive period has elapsed may still accept the author's offer, but the current journal has priority until its exclusive offer from the author is rejected or elapses. More information is at http://lawlib.wlu.edu/lexopus/about.aspx

Would authors have any interest in giving up simultaneous submissions?

My sense is that most of us benefit from the simulatenous submissions process so that the answer would be no. But I do suspect Expresso is capturing high fees that another school could undercut with a smartly run program. Thoughts?