Watching recent events in Egypt, one can't help but think of that country's long and fascinating history. Not the lease significant part of that history is the Library of Alexandra, in it's day the largest library in the world. Not everyone is aware that there is a new Library of Alexandra, which opened in 2002 […]
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 […]
Great News! The Crown Copyright and Licensing (CCL) office of Government of Canada Publications has announced that "permission to reproduce Government of Canada works is no longer required, in part or in whole, and by any means, for personal or public non-commercial purposes, or for cost-recovery purposes, unless otherwise specified in the material you wish […]
Tim Knight is of Head of Technical Services in the Osgoode library and a leading figure in developing standards for the cataloguing and classification of legal materials in Canada. His article about the new cataloguing rules, "Resource Description and Access: From AACR to RDA", was recently published in the Canadian Law Library Review. The article […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]