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 […]
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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 […]
New Enhancements to QuickCITE
There are two recent enhancements to Quicklaw's QuickCITE case law citator which deserve you attention. QuickCITE is the essential research tool that allows you to determine the history, status and importance of a case. First, LexisNexis Canada has added commentary references to QuickCITE. Researchers will be able to learn whether a case has been considered […]
SCC Facta for Upcoming Hearings Now Online
The Fall 2010 session of the Supreme Court of Canada began earlier this week. Not everyone knows that electronic facta filed by the parties in cases before the Supreme Court of Canada are available on the Court’s website. This has been so for cases filed since February 2009. For example, if you want to find […]
The Trouble with Billionaires
The Trouble with Billionaires, a new book by our own Professor Neil Brooks and Toronto Star columnist Linda McQuaig, has just published by Penguin Canada. In the book, they argue that the growth of an extremely rich elite is damaging to society, threatening the quality of life and the very functioning of democracy. You can […]
Festschrift in Honour of Prof. Vaver
The collection The Common Law of Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Professor David Vaver, edited by Catherine W. Ng (Lecturer in Law, University of Aberdeen), Lionel Bentley (Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Cambridge University) and our own Prof. Giuseppina D'Agostino, has just been published by Hart Publishing, Oxford. Prof. Vaver, renowned both […]
Today is Constitution Day in the United States
Today marks the 223rd anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution, signed September 17, 1787 at the Philadelphia Convention. You can take a look at the Constitution and a collection of other significant on the webpage of America's Historical Documents, digitized and assembled by the US National Archives. In the spirit of Constitution […]