The latest issue of the Law Library Journal published by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) is now available online. Volume 102, Number 2 includes this great set of general articles: Cornerstones of Law Libraries for an Era of Digital-Plus / John Palfrey Time to Blossom: An Inquiry into Bloom’s Taxonomy as a Hierarchy […]
The latest issue of the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice/La Revue canadienne de criminologie et de justice pénale is now available online. Volume 52, Number 3 / June 2010 includes the following articles: Bridging Divides in Canadian Criminology: Some Thoughts on a Possible Future / Laura Huey, Paul-Philippe Paré Rethinking Criminology(ies) through the […]
The Internet Archive has recently launched there redesigned Open Library. The Open Library now makes over one million books available to all and in a new format that is designed to support the “print disabled … those who are blind, dyslexic or are otherwise visually impaired.” “The print disabled collection of books are now available […]
HeinOnline will be introducing World Constitutions Illustrated in a webinar on Thursday, May 6th. There will be two sessions: one in the morning at 10:00am and the second at 2:00pm in the afternoon. “During the webinar we will explain how this library introduces a new legal research platform and how the scope of it is […]
HeinOnline has recently launched a new library World Constitutions Illustrated: Contemporary & Historical Documents & Resources. “This library enables legal scholars to research the constitutional and political development of every country in the world. It includes the current constitution for every country in its original language format and an English translation, as well as substantial […]
The Law Library of Congress has been archiving legal blogs, or ‘blawgs’ since the beginning of March 2007. And as recently noted by Dan Cohen on Twitter this has become an ‘impressive’ resource. It’s been a year or so since the Legal Blawg Archive was first released to the public collecting “unique, born digital content” […]
The individual titles that are included in this collection of Oxford University Press electronic books have been added to the Library’s catalogue. We’ve had access to this collection of electronic books for about a year now but catalogue records were not available until recently. Here are a few examples: Punishment and Freedom (2009) / Alan […]
The International Relations and Security Network (ISN) is an open access information service established in 1994 as an online project of the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. The mission of the ISN is to “promote greater knowledge sharing, learning and collaboration” and they work with “the world’s leading think […]
With the Febrary 2010 content release, the following titles – all published by LexisNexis Canada – have been added to the Quicklaw databases. As of February 7, they will also be available on the LexisNexis Academic service. As you can see from the list, a broad selection of classic titles is included, from texts (McGuiness […]
Among the most important pieces of legislation that came into force on January 1 is a Quebec statute, an Act respecting the Compilation of Quebec Laws and Regulations, SQ 2009, c. 40 (version française: LQ 2009, c. 40). Pursuant to this Act, all consolidated statutes published by the Quebec Official Publisher (Editeur officiel du Québec) have official […]