Following the Senate Committee meeting this afternoon there will be a discussion of Open Access facilitated by Professor and Associate Dean of Research Lisa Philips of the Osgoode Hall Law School. This is part of the Report to Senate by the Executive Committee: "Senate Executive has extended an invitation to Professor Lisa Philipps of Osgoode […]
General News
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 […]
Digital Technology Innovation in Scholarly Communication and University Engagement
Digital Technology Innovation in Scholarly Communication and University Engagement Authors: Rowland Lorimer (Simon Fraser University) Johanne Provençal (Simon Fraser University) Brian Owen (Simon Fraser University) Rea Devakos (University of Toronto) David Phipps (York University) Richard Smith (Simon Fraser University) "The Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing (CCSP) has issued “Digital Technology Innovation in Scholarly Communication […]
New Library of Alexandria
Watching recent events in Egypt, one can't help but think of that country's long and fascinating history. Not the lease significant part of that history is the Library of Alexandra, in it's day the largest library in the world. Not everyone is aware that there is a new Library of Alexandra, which opened in 2002 […]
New Internatioinal Law Library on WorldLII
A new International Law Library is now available on WordLII. We missed notifying our community of this when it was launched last September, for which our apologies. The WorldLII International Law Library is the largest and most comprehensive free-access collection of international legal materials on the Web, containing over 80,000 searchable documents. The contents include […]
Great News regarding Crown Copyright
Great News! The Crown Copyright and Licensing (CCL) office of Government of Canada Publications has announced that "permission to reproduce Government of Canada works is no longer required, in part or in whole, and by any means, for personal or public non-commercial purposes, or for cost-recovery purposes, unless otherwise specified in the material you wish […]
Resource Description and Access: From AACR to RDA
Tim Knight is of Head of Technical Services in the Osgoode library and a leading figure in developing standards for the cataloguing and classification of legal materials in Canada. His article about the new cataloguing rules, "Resource Description and Access: From AACR to RDA", was recently published in the Canadian Law Library Review. The article […]
Quebec Doctrine on LexisNexis Quicklaw
A collection of significant secondary resources on Quebec law is now available on LexisNexis Quicklaw. The Quebec Doctrine collection provides essential secondary materials on Quebec law in French, authored by known legal experts in the areas of civil, employment, criminal, business and public law. Included in the collection are the online versions of leading LexisNexis […]