James M. Donovan

University of Kentucky

Director and Assoc. Prof. of Law

J. David Rosenberg College of Law

620 S. Limestone Street

Lexington, KY 40506-0048

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

25

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5,538

TOTAL CITATIONS

12

Scholarly Papers (25)

1.

Citation Advantage of Open Access Legal Scholarship

UGA Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-07
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 05 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2015
James M. Donovan and Carol A. Watson
University of Kentucky and University of Georgia School of Law
Downloads 974 (49,351)
Citation 6

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Legal Scholarship, Open Access, Legal Research

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The Open Access Advantage for American Law Reviews

Edison: Law + Technology (JPTOS's Open Access Journal), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2015
James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson and Caroline Osborne
University of Kentucky, University of Georgia School of Law and University of North Carolina School of Law
Downloads 595 (94,505)
Citation 5

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Institutional repositories, citation analysis, law reviews

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Half-Baked: The Demand by For-Profit Businesses for Religious Exemptions from Selling to Same-Sex Couples

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 49, 2015
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 23 Sep 2015
James M. Donovan
University of Kentucky
Downloads 362 (170,564)

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On Writing with Adverbs

Mississippi College Law Review, Vol. 33, No. 3 (2015)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 08 Dec 2015
James M. Donovan
University of Kentucky
Downloads 342 (181,435)

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Legal writing, composition

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Prolegomenon to a Fairness-Centered Anthropology of Law

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 04 Jan 2007
James M. Donovan
University of Kentucky
Downloads 288 (217,864)

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Anthropology, Fairness, Dispute Resolution, Sanctioning, Cases

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Tenure and the Law Library Director

Journal of Legal Education, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 15 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2011
James M. Donovan and Kevin B. Shelton
University of Kentucky and Hofstra University - Library
Downloads 260 (241,695)

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Tenure, Law Library, Directors, Academic Freedom, Faculty Governance

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Delimiting the Culture Defense

Quinnipiac Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 07 Jun 2007
James M. Donovan and John Stuart Garth
University of Kentucky and University of Georgia
Downloads 240 (261,829)

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Culture defense, Rational man, Mens rea

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Diversity: So How Is AALL Doing?

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 13 May 2016
James M. Donovan
University of Kentucky
Downloads 238 (263,907)

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Skating on Thin Intermediation: Can Libraries Survive?

Legal Reference Services Quarterly, Vol. 27, pp. 95-116, 2008
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 21 Feb 2009
James M. Donovan
University of Kentucky
Downloads 220 (284,635)

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Google, internet, library 2.0, professional ethics, patron expectations

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A Library is Not the Books: An Ethical Obstacle to the Digital Library

Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, May 2012
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 22 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2012
James M. Donovan
University of Kentucky
Downloads 210 (297,415)

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Digital libraries, collection development

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Libraries as Doppelgängers: A Meditation on Collection Development

Southeastern Law Librarian, Fall/Winter 2009
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 02 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2014
James M. Donovan
University of Kentucky
Downloads 176 (349,678)

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doppelgänger, digital resources, collection development

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Human Rights: From Legal Transplants to Fair Translation

Wisconsin International Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 07 Dec 2016
James M. Donovan
University of Kentucky
Downloads 164 (371,758)

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Order Matters: Typology of Dual-Degreed Law Librarians

Legal Reference Services Quarterly 33 (2014)
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 18 Mar 2014
James M. Donovan
University of Kentucky
Downloads 154 (392,206)

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Professional education, Identity

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A Library Romantic's Reply to Richard Danner

Legal Reference Services Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 255-262, 2008
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 12 Mar 2009
James M. Donovan
University of Kentucky
Downloads 150 (400,810)

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Library profession, tenure, category prototypes

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Becoming Director: An Internal Candidate's View

Library Management, Vol. 34, No. 3 (2013), Western New England University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-3
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 10 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2013
Pat Newcombe and James M. Donovan
Western New England University School of Law and University of Kentucky
Downloads 145 (411,867)

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Library, directorship, internal candidate

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Behind a Law School’s Decision to Implement an Institutional Repository

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 13 Sep 2010
James M. Donovan and Carol A. Watson
University of Kentucky and University of Georgia School of Law
Downloads 145 (411,867)

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Institutional repository, justification

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Background Primer for Discussion on Diversity within the Legal Profession

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 Apr 2015
James M. Donovan
University of Kentucky
Downloads 129 (451,765)

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Diversity, legal profession

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Academic Law Libraries and Scholarship: Communication, Publishing, and Ranking

49(4) Journal of Law and Education (October 2020 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 15 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2020
Dana Neacsu and James M. Donovan
Duquesne University School of Law and University of Kentucky
Downloads 126 (460,107)

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COVID-19 and library management; academic law libraries and scholarly publication; scholarly impact factor; academic law libraries and scholarly communication; academic leadership

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Keep the Books on the Shelves: Library Space as Intrinsic Facilitator of the Reading Experience

Journal of Academic Librarianship, Vol. 46 (2020)
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 10 Jan 2020
James M. Donovan
University of Kentucky
Downloads 124 (465,812)
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Too Much, Too Soon? 'Obergefell' as Applied Equality Practice

Mississippi Law Journal, Vol. 88, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 12 Nov 2019
James M. Donovan and Alyssa Oakley Milby
University of Kentucky and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 123 (468,731)

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Why Bibliography?

Sexual Orientation, Gender Identities, and the Law: A Research Bibliography, 2006-2016 (Hein, 2018)
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 04 Dec 2018
James M. Donovan
University of Kentucky
Downloads 123 (468,731)

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Bibliography, Libraries, Research

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Grounding Suicide Terrorism in Death Anxiety and Consumer Capitalism

Forthcoming, Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review, Vol. 44, 2021
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 14 Dec 2020
James M. Donovan
University of Kentucky
Downloads 121 (474,661)

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suicide terrorism, death anxiety, capitalism, consumerism, Egypt, terror management theory, significance quest theory

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'Aniticipatory Self-Defense' and Other Stories

Kansas Journal of Law & Pubic Policy, Vol. 14, p. 488, 2004-2005
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 18 Nov 2011
Jeanne M. Woods and James M. Donovan
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and University of Kentucky
Downloads 102 (538,330)

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anticipatory self-defense

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More than Censorship: The Harm of Libricide

Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2024
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 17 Jun 2024
James M. Donovan
University of Kentucky
Downloads 27 (985,256)

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libricide, heritage, censorship, biblioclasm, collective memory

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