Groups such as the
American Library Association, the American Association of Law Libraries,
Ralph Nader's Taxpayers Assets Project have advocated for free access to
legal information. The vendor neutral citation movement in the
legal field is working to ensure that courts will accept
citations from cases on the web which do not have the traditional (copyrighted) page numbers from the
West Publishing company. There is a worldwide
Free Access to Law Movement which advocates free access to legal information. The
Wired article "Who Owns The Law" is an introduction to the access to legal information issue. Postsecondary organizations such as K-12 work to share information. They feel it is a legal and moral obligation to provide access (including to people with disabilities or impairments) to information through the services and programs they offer. Some effects of charging for information access, such as literature searches for physicians, is studied in the article "Fee or Free: The Effect of Charging on Information Demand". In this study, a $5 charge resulted in a 77% decrease in searches. ==See also==