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News and developments in legal publishing relevant to Osgoode Library

More E-books Developments

Some of the library’s e-books are provided to us through Scholars Portal.  The way to access the Scholars Portal books is different from the way we access books on the ebrary platform.  You can tell that the book is a Scholars Portal e-book if you see "Borrow this E-Book" above the cover image of a […]

Change of Martinus Nijhoff Imprint

Martinus Nijhoff was the name of a prestigious publishing house founded in the 19th century in The Hague. (The Dutch poet bearing the same name was a grandson of the company's founder). Martinus Nijhoff's publishing program focused on the humanities and the, with an especially strong list for law. Nijhoff's publishing record of extremely well […]

Recent International Law Acquisitions

The library has been busy lately augmenting its International Law collection. The London Review of International Law is a brand new journal from Oxford (Volume 1 Issue 1 was published September 2013) to which we now have access.  It is not available through the catalogue or eResources yet, but it will be. We have also […]

Halsbury's Laws of Canada Now Complete

LexisNexis Canada recently celebrated the completion of the first edition of Halsbury’s Laws of Canada with the publication of the 77th and final volume this past February. Halsbury's Canada began publication in 2006 with the volume on Conflict of Laws by Osgoode's own Janet Walker. Now complete,Halsbury's covers 117 legal subjects from all 14 Canadian […]

A new take on book "vendors"

As librarians, part of our day-to-day responsibilities involve dealing with vendors who provide resources to us, the library, to pass along to you, the patrons. This is a big business, as anybody who has ever been to a major library conference and seen the impressive displays and salesmanship on offer. This all highlights the impressively […]

Canadian Journal of Human Rights

The first issue of the Canadian Journal of Human Rights has just recently been published. The CJHR is a new academic journal from the Robson Hall Faculty of Law of the University of Manitoba. An interdisciplinary, peer-reviwed journal of human rights law and policy with a national and international scope, it is the first and […]

New Subscription: Children's Legal Rights Journal

The Children's Legal Rights Journal is a quarterly periodical co-edited by the ABA Center on Children and the Law and the Loyola University Chicago School of Law, in cooperation with the National Association of Counsel for Children. The journal focuses on the broad range of legal issues confronting children. Its goal is to provide practitioners in law and related […]

New Journal: Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal

The Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal has recently published its inaugural edition. The Journal features submissions from undergraduates from the University of Oxford pertaining to the UK jurisdiction: this issue features a diverse array of articles, ranging from deportation to the family home. The journal will be available exclusively online, both on HeinOnline's Law Journal […]

Open Access eBook on Wrongful Dismissal and Employment Law Now Available on CanLII

CanLII (Canadian Legal Information Institute), Canada's foremost resource of freely-available legal information, and Lancaster House, the respected Canadian law publisher specializing in labour and employment law, have announced their co-operation in a joint project to enhance open access to legal commentary in Canada. For the first time, an electronic text authored by experts in the […]

Free eBooks from CALI’s eLangdell Press and the Legal Information Institute

Sarah Glassmeyer, law librarian and Director of Content Development for CALI (the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction) reports in recent post on the Law Librarian Blog that CALI’s eLangdell Press has now publsihed the  Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.  The ebooks were compiled by the good folks at the Legal Information Institute at Cornell […]