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Electronic Resources

News and updates about electronic resources at Osgoode Library

Legal Information Institute of India

The Legal Information Institute of India (LII of India) was officially launched on March 9, 2011. This database is an addition to the World Legal Information Institute which makes legal information freely available on the Internet. Featuring about 3, 818,095 materials which include cases and legislation from all the states and territories of India, law […]

JustCite Introduces Precedent Map

JustCite is a legal citator and search engine for researching UK statutes and cases. It cross-references UK cases, legislation, and secondary commentaries to allow researchers to find related materials. It works very similarly like the Westlaw Keycite and Quicklaw Note Up service. Today, JustCite launched the “Precedent Map” feature, allowing the visualizing of relationships between […]

Customary International Humanitarian Law Database

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has recently launched a FREE online database on customary international humanitarian law (IHL). This database is an expansion of the 2005 published study of IHL, conducted by ICRC in consultation with experts from around the world. It includes two parts. Part One offers a comprehensive analysis of […]

New Internatioinal Law Library on WorldLII

A new International Law Library is now available on WordLII. We missed notifying our community of this when it was launched last September, for which our apologies. The WorldLII International Law Library is the largest and most comprehensive free-access collection of international legal materials on the Web, containing over 80,000 searchable documents. The contents include […]

Quebec Doctrine on LexisNexis Quicklaw

A collection of significant secondary resources on Quebec law is now available on LexisNexis Quicklaw. The Quebec Doctrine collection provides essential secondary materials on Quebec law in French, authored by known legal experts in the areas of civil, employment, criminal, business and public law. Included in the collection are the online versions of leading LexisNexis […]

Faceted Searching Now Available Across All HeinOnline Databases

Hein has just announced that that all the collections in HeinOnline will now return faceted search results — an enhancement that was first introduced with the Law Journal Library in January of 2010. What are faceted search results? When performing a field search or advanced search in any collection, you will see a menu called “Refine […]

German Law Journal Now on HeinOnline

The German Law Journal is now available on the HeinOnline Law Journals Library. After ten volumes the German Law Journal has secured a place among the world’s leading academic fora concerned with transnational law. In 2009 the German Law Journal was ranked as the world’s leading “online, peer-reviewed” law journal of any subject matter (for […]

Scottish Legal History Library on HeinOnline

The Osgoode Library now subscribes to the Scottish Legal History library on HeinOnline, featuring publications of the Stair Society in an online searchable format that has never been available before. The initial release of the Scottish Legal History library in HeinOnline includes the Stair Society Main (Annual) Series consisting of 53 volumes (1936-present), each of […]

ResultsPlus on Westlaw Canada

Back in July, Carswell announced the addition of ResultsPlus to Westlaw Canada. ResultsPlus enriches your case law research by recommending analytical material related to your search along with your case law search results. To date ResultsPlus has drawn all its analytical suggestions from one source – the Canadian Encyclopedic Digest (CED). The scope of ResultsPlus […]

BestCase Enhancements

The Print, Save and Email functionality on BestCase is being enhanced so users will be able to print, save or email the Hit List (with or without words around hits); print, save or email just the summary/headnote or note up of a case; highlight search terms in the output and select a cover page (with […]