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 […]
Electronic Resources
Introductory Webinar for World Constitutions Illustrated
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 […]
New From HeinOnline: World Constitutions Illustrated
HeinOnline has recently launched a new library World Constitutions Illustrated: Contemporary & Historical Documents & Resources.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 Legal Blawg Archive
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" […]
Oxford Scholarship Online: Electronic Books for Law
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 […]
International Relations and Security Network (ISN)
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 […]
Texts Added to Quicklaw Databases
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 […]
Quebec Online Statutes Now Have Official Status
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 […]
WestlawCanada "OnePass" Signon Now Required
Beginning this semester, the OnePass system for access to WestlawCanada is now in the second phase of implementation. All second and third year students, grad students and all faculty will be required to create or update their Username and Password to fully access WestlawCanada and TWEN (The West Education Network). The WestlawCanada law school site (www.westlawcanada/lawschool) […]
Hamlyn Lectures Digitized
The Hamlyn Lectures, presented annually at the School of Law of the University of Exeter since 1949, have been digitized and are available on the school's website. The page is not perfectly clear: you have to scroll to the bottom to find the the table that lists the lectures chronologically, with links to the PDFs. […]