WestlawCanada’s coverage of tribunal decisions continues to expand. A significant recent addition is the collection of decisions of the Discipline Committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (the “College”), which hears matters of professional misconduct or incompetence. The comprehensive collection covers decisions of the Committee from January 1, 1992 onwards. Decision of […]
Now you can note up regulations from 10 jurisdictions with QuickCITE on Quicklaw. This added functionality is available for British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Federal and Nova Scotia regulations will be added by the end of this month. With the addition of […]
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 […]
What is Term Frequency Searching? You can now limit the results retrieved by search queries on Westlaw Canada to display only those documents that refer to particular search terms extensively, or documents that have one term appear more often than others. You are now able to specify that a term must appear at least a […]
Quicklaw subscribers can now download the new Quicklaw app for iPhone free at the Apple App Store. Retrieve cases from the Quicklaw service right from your iPhone. Get on-the-go access to Quicklaw’s complete, editorially enhanced case law collection and note up Canadian court and tribunal cases with the tap of your finger. No matter where […]
The session will cover primary and secondary resources, bibliographic management tools such as RefWorks and Zotero. Date: Monday May 9, 2011 Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm Location: Room S839 Ross Building Register by sending an email to lawref@osgoode.yorku.ca Light refreshments will be served.
York University visual arts Professor Nancy Nicol has been awarded a SSHRCC grant of $1 million over 5 years to lead a major international project on the impact of criminalizing sexual orientation and gender identity. Members of the research team include leading LGBT rights activists from Toronto and developing countries. The Osgoode library is providing […]
The library now has access to the Australian Law Dictionary online — part of the Oxford University Press “Digital Reference Shelf” service. Access is provided from both the Osgoode and York University e-resources databases. This is a new (2010) publication, edited by Prof. Trischa Mann of the Australian National University. The Australian Law Dictionary is […]
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 […]
There’s a great series of short videos on ‘Finding Cases on Point’ available through the British Columbia Courthouse libraries. The course content was created by Alex McNeur of Courthouse Libraries BC in consultation with Mark Hicken, Kristina Oldenburg, and Mandy Ostick and “demonstrate[s] how you can conduct case law research more effectively … [and] … […]