Category Archives: Legal Research

R.A. research skills workshop

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Please join us for a library research skills workshop on Thursday, May 3, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Room 2027.

While this session is geared primarily to help Research Assistants who will be involved in in-depth research projects during the summer, all students who wish to improve their research skills are welcome.

Legal research basics will be briefly covered and students will also have the opportunity to learn some advanced research skills.

The schedule for the workshop is as follows:

10:00-10:40 Secondary sources  

10:45-11:20 Legislation

11:25-12:00 Caselaw and Zotero

12:10-1:00 Lunch and WestlawNext Canada training

1:05-2:00 Lexis Advance Quicklaw training

Though we highly recommend attendance at all sessions, students are welcome to attend those sessions that are most useful to them.

A morning snack will be sponsored by Lexis Nexis and Thomson Reuters will be sponsoring lunch.

To register please send a message to library@osgoode.yorku.ca with R.A.research skills workshop in the subject line. Please let us know if you will be working as a Research Assistant this summer.

We look forward to seeing you!

 

The Library Reference team,

Yemisi Dina, Sharon Wang, Daniel Perlin and Sharona Brookman

 

Lexis Advance Quicklaw training

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The library is pleased to offer Lexis Advance Quicklaw training on Monday, Feb. 5 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

The session will take place in Room 2011.

Find out what resources are unique to Quicklaw and not available on Westlaw.

To register please send a message to library@osgoode.yorku.ca with Lexis Advance Quicklaw training in the subject.

 

Significant New Additions to HeinOnline’s American Indian Law Collection

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Nearly 30,000 pages of Indian Tribal Codes have been added to the American Indian Law Collection on HeinOnline. These materials have been made available by Ralph Whitney Johnson and Susan Lupton at the Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library, University of Washington School of Law. Included is the first edition from 1981, and the second edition from 1988. The project collects in one place in a usable and readily accessible format research materials that would otherwise be virtually unattainable, and this content addition greatly increases the value of a subscription to this database.

The Osgoode Law Library has the 1981 edition in microfiche, but not the 1988 editiion, so their availability in digital format — and searchable full-text — on HeinOnline is a wonderful development.