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 […]
From Louis Mirando
Free eBooks from CALI’s eLangdell Press and the Legal Information Institute
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 […]
Academic Publishing Under Scrutiny
In a recent post on Slaw, our colleague Ruth Bird, Bodleian Law Librarian, refers to an article in The Guardian – “Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist” – by George Monbiot. Mr Monbiot recommends that “governments should refer the academic publishers to their competition watchdogs, and insist that all papers arising from publicly funded research are placed […]
Term Frequency Searching on Westlaw Canada
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 […]
Can't Get Enough Quicklaw? New QL iPhone App
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 […]
HeinOnline's World Constitutions Illustrated - Update
You may not be aware of how comprehensive HeinOnline's World Consitutions Illustrated service really is. It's much more than just primary source materials. It also includes a large and growing collection (mostly historical) of scholarly monographic texts on constitutional law. With the March release, more than 2,160 books are now available. Here's just a sample […]
Envisioning LGBT Human Rights
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 […]
Australian Law Dictionary - Online!
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 […]
Recent Quicklaw Enhancements
There is quite a list of enhancements to the Quicklaw service this month, including: Quick Lookup Tool Auto-complete Search Feature Sort by Citing Frequency Option New Look and Feel for LexisNexis Quicklaw Essentials series For more information about these enhancements, read the March 2011 Quicklaw Research Update.
New iPhone App for Quicklaw
Quicklaw subscribers can now download the new Quicklaw app for iPhone free at the Apple App Store. Retrieve cases from the Quicklaw service and be confident that they are still good law, right from your iPhone. Get on-the-go access to Quicklaw's entire enhanced case law collection and note up Canadian court and tribunal cases with […]