We now subscribe to the US Congressional Documents collection on HeinOnline. This eresource is one of the most complete collections of these document available anywhere, and certainly the easiest to use. The collection features the complete Congressional Record bound volume set from its inception in 1873 as well as the three predecessor titles: Annals of […]
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 […]
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 […]
The scope and coverage of the CriminalSource® module on Westlaw Canada have been considerbly expanded by the addition of the full text of the complete Canadian Criminal Cases (the CCCs). The collection includes the full text of all cases reported in all series of the CCCs, including all headnotes and critical apparatus, from 1898 to the […]
Beginning this Friday, June 1, and continuing all summer until Friday, August 31, the Library will close one hour earlier every Friday, at 4:00 pm rather than 5:00 pm. The library will keep its regular summer hours of 9:00 am-5:00 Monday through Thursday. The Library will switch to academic term hours beginning on Monday, September […]
Early Canadiana Online (ECO) has launched a new platform for faster and more accurate searching and navigation. ECO now supports advanced and Boolean searching as described here, as well as personalized accounts and secure channels for account information. The Early Canadiana Online collection of rare books, magazines and government publications has over 80,000 titles (3,500,000 […]
HeinOnline’s Foreign and International Law Resources Database (FILRD) now includes important materials from the Court of Justice of the European Communities. This court is the most important court in Western Europe, with decision-making power in all matters involving the existence and operation of the European Communities. Its jurisdiction in such matters extends to all member-countries. […]
Tim Knight, Head of Technical Services in the Osgoode Library, spoke on May 8 at the annual conference of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL), currently being held here in Toronto at the Royal York. The topic of Tim’s presentation was “RDA: Coming to a Library Near You”. Tim’s partner in the program was […]
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 […]
The full text of the annual Constitutional Cases Conference component of the Supreme Court Law Review (2001-2011) is now available open-access on York University’s YorkSpace institutional repository. Working with the native functionality of the YorkSpace platform, the collection can easily be browsed and articles retrieved by Issue, Author or Title. The entire collection is searchable […]