When you’re reading an Irwin Law eBook you can now link to cases and statutes in CanLII and in BaiLII, the British and Irish Legal Information Institute website. You’ll need to create an account for DesLibris, the platform that hosts Irwin Law and you’ll need to use the Google Chrome browser to take advantage of […]
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More E-books Developments
Some of the library’s e-books are provided to us through Scholars Portal. The way to access the Scholars Portal books is different from the way we access books on the ebrary platform. You can tell that the book is a Scholars Portal e-book if you see "Borrow this E-Book" above the cover image of a […]
Internet Archive (Re)Launches Open Library
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 […]
Two New eResources from Oxford University Press Now Available
The library has just acquired two new online resources from Oxford University Press: the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History and the collection of law books published by OUP available on Oxford Scholarship Online. The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, edited by Stanley N. Katz, is the first encyclopedia of law to provide both […]
'Future of Reputation' Now Available Online
Daniel J. Solove's book The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet, published in 2007 by Yale University Press, is now available online under a Creative Commons license. "This book will take a journey through the ways in which private lives are being exposed online, and it will examine the implications. People […]