![]() Some of what makes The Bluebook cumbersome is the prescriptiveness of so many fairly minor things like abbreviation. This is in part intentional by the creators of The Indigo Book. If you are writing for a journal that is very particular about Bluebooking, The Indigo Book is not 1:1 and doesn’t include a great deal of what is in the white pages of The Bluebook. The Indigo Book was made to be compatible with the twentieth edition of The Bluebook for usability’s sake. That said, all that glitters is not gold. Put it on your phone, your laptop, your tablet, or even your Samsung refrigerator who doesn’t love a little citation review before getting some midnight cheese? The authors have even explicitly opened The Indigo Book up for improvement. They have essentially avowed all copyrights they have in it and made it free to do whatever with. Second, The Indigo Book is free and “open.” There are various levels and kinds of open licensing (open source software, green open access, black open access, etc.), but here it means “No Rights Reserved.” The creators of The Indigo Book published it under a CC0. (As a purchaser of a print copy though, one does get a free 30-day trial.) Yes, that is on top of buying the print copy. You can acquire a digital version of The Bluebook, but it costs an initial annual subscription rate of $36. I’m as much a bibliophile as anyone else, but there is something about having a bookmarked, internally-hyperlinked PDF with the possibility to Ctrl+F my way through it that is just. Now that you know what it is, why might you use The Indigo Book instead of The Bluebook?įirst, The Bluebook is, well, a book. ![]() The Indigo Book’s scope is roughly the “Bluepages” of The Bluebook, though with more depth. It is part of the “system and method of our legal machinery” and therefore there is no intellectual property right in it, at least so says Professor Sprigman in the Introduction. It was created by a group of NYU law students and professor, Professor Christopher Jon Sprigman, on the idea that although The Bluebook is copyrighted, the underlying system of citation belongs to everyone. ![]() If not, you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000 ! The Indigo Book is an open system of citation that had its beta-release in 2016. (Probably.) But have you heard of The Indigo Book? ![]()
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