If you’re not sure whether to use Quicklaw or Westlaw and want to find out which sources are available on each service and how to use them effectively, attend the upcoming training sessions: Lexis Advance Quicklaw: Tomorrow, Wednesday, January 29 WestlawNext Canada: Next Monday, February 3. Both sessions will be in room 2010 and will […]
Reminder about Omni Library Catalogue Clinic
If you’d like to learn more about our new library catalogue and how to effectively use Omni for your legal research, please join us for one of the workshops this week. Reference librarians will be leading three sessions: Today: Monday, January 27thTomorrow: Tuesday, January 28thThis Thursday: January 30th All sessions will run from 1:00 pm […]
Lexis Advance Quicklaw and WestlawNext Canada training
Not sure whether to use Quicklaw or Westlaw? Both services offer access to unique content. To find out which sources are available on each service and how to use them effectively, attend the training sessions next week: Lexis Advance Quicklaw: Wednesday, January 29 WestlawNext Canada: Monday, February 3. Both sessions will be in room 2010 […]
Omni Library Catalogue Clinic
Interested in learning more about our new library catalogue? If you'd like to learn how to effectively use Omni for your legal research, please join us for a workshop on the catalogue this month! Law librarians will be leading three sessions: January 27th, 2020 - 1:00 - 1:30 pm, room 2011January 28th, 2020 - 1:00 […]
Osgoode Digital Commons: Readership Snapshot
December 2019 Last month, the Osgoode Digital Commons received 54,568 full-text downloads and 12 new submissions, bringing the total works in the repository to 17,775. Osgoode Hall Law School of York University scholarship was read by 2,778 institutions across 186 countries. The most popular papers were: Book Review: Are Prisons Obsolete?, by Angela Y. Davis […]
Osgoode Digital Commons: Readership Snapshot
November 2019 Last month, the Osgoode Digital Commons received 70,546 full-text downloads and 39 new submissions, bringing the total works in the repository to 17,775. Osgoode Hall Law School of York University scholarship was read by 3,209 institutions across 190 countries. The most popular papers were: The Charter's Influence Around the World (1,416 downloads) Discretion […]
New from the Library Collection: Bloomsbury Law
The Law Library has recently acquired over 500 law-related titles from the Bloomsbury Collections. These resources, available in e-book format, will be useful to the academic study of law and legal research, as well as its practical application. Covering a broad range of topics with an international scope, the new resources are now available in […]
Osgoode Digital Commons: Readership Snapshot
October 2019 Last month, the Osgoode Digital Commons received 62,232 full-text downloads and 151 new submissions, bringing the total works in the repository to 17,736. Osgoode Hall Law School of York University scholarship was read by 3,202 institutions across 191 countries. The most popular papers were: The Charter 25 Years Later: The Good, the Bad, […]
Deactivation of expired Quicklaw accounts
LexisNexis has notified us that they will be deleting expired Quicklaw accounts. If you are a current Osgoode student and your account has been accidentally deleted, please contact Sharona Brookman at sbrookman@osgoode.yorku.ca. In the meantime you can access Quicklaw without a password through our campus wide subscription. Under Quick Links on the law library’s home […]
Osgoode Digital Commons: Disseminating Osgoode’s Scholarship and Heritage
THE BEGINNINGIn 2012 librarians at the Osgoode Hall Law School Law Library began thinking about establishing an institutional repository that would capture and disseminate faculty scholarship created at the Osgoode Hall Law School. Initial objectives for this institutional repository were: to provide open access to institutional research at Osgoode through self-archiving; to create global visibility […]