Library Intelligencer

July Content Release

Below is a snapshot of July’s Content Release:
15 libraries updated
9 titles added and 170 journals updated in the Law Journal Library
Including volume 122 (2008-2009) of the Harvard Law Review

10 titles added to the Legal Classics Library
44 titles added to the World Trials Library
Kavass’s Current Treaty Index (2009) & Treaties in Force (2009) added to the Treaties & Agreements library

21 Slip Opinions from June 2009 added to the U.S. Supreme Court Library
2008 NCCUSL Handbook added to the NCCUSL collection

First installment of taking all states back to 1990 in the Session Laws Collection

Highlights

Additions to HeinOnline’s Law Journal Library:

Antitrust Bulletin is Now Available From Inception

Published by Federal Legal Publications, the Antitrust Bulletin serves to present an objective record of antitrust law, practice and developments. With a monthly publishing schedule (except July and August), the Antitrust Bulletin includes reprints of influential law review articles, at least one original paper in each issue, summaries of key legislative activities, administrative rulings, and court decisions, a bibliography of current literature related to antitrust, book reviews, and more. Presented in reference form, this is a key resource for attorneys, economists and industrialists interested in the study of antitrust law.

James Cook University Law Review

As a peer-reviewed journal, the James Cook University Law Review aims to advance the scholarship of law. The James Cook University School of Law was established in 1990 as the only regional Law School in Queensland, Australia. The Review provides a forum for critical, conceptual and contextual analysis of regional, national and international issues in any field of law. Published in two issues per year, the Review includes articles, case notes, book reviews and comments.

SEC Docket

The SEC serves to promote the disclosure of important market-related and financial information, maintain fair dealing, and protect against fraud. This mission is accomplished through federal securities laws, which contain requirements for disclosing important information and restrictions against fraud and manipulative practices. Federal securities laws serve to protect the interest of investors and the public while governing the companies that are issuing securities to the public, investment advisors, holding and investment companies, as well as to individuals who buy and sell securities. All securities sold in the U.S. must be registered and filed with the SEC. There are various rules and forms that contain the disclosure and accounting requirements for the registration and reporting of securities. In order to uphold its mission, the SEC is continuously assessing these rules and forms, which results in ongoing rulemaking. The SEC Docket allows a researcher to stay current on the changing regulations as it contains new and historical SEC releases, rulings, opinions and official Commission actions.

Veterans Law Review

Veterans Law Review is published yearly by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the volunteer efforts of attorneys working at the Board of Veterans’ Appeals. HeinOnline is pleased to introduce the seminal issue of this new law review, which highlights legal issues and legal-policy concerns that the Office of the General Counsel, the Veterans Benefits Administration, the Board of Veterans’ Appeals and the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (Court) face when servicing the men and women who have served in the United States military. The Department of Veterans Affairs is faced with providing medical care, disability benefits and hearing and settling judicial claims for millions of veterans every year. This law review will contain articles, notes, comments and book reviews that will exemplify the commitment of the Department, attorneys, judges and employees who share in the efforts to provi de the best service to United States veterans.

Update on the Session Laws Library:

Currently, all states in HeinOnline’s Session Laws library are available back to 1995. We have now started to take all states back an additional five years to 1990, with this month’s release marking the first installment of this effort. There are four states now available back to inception: California, Illinois, New York and Ohio. Six additional states/jurisdictions are in production and being taken back to inception: Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas, Canada, Australia and Maryland. These six are scheduled to be completed approximately November/December 2009. Our goal is to take all states and jurisdictions back to inception.

New Articles From Volume 19 of Trends in Law Library Management & Technology:

LexOpus: Law Journal Submissions System
By: John Doyle, Associate Law Librarian, Washington and Lee School of Law
In spring 2009, the Washington and Lee Law School launched LexOpus, a free law journal submissions system. The difference between the LexOpus and the well known Expresso submission system is that Expresso sends simultaneous submissions to multiple law journals seeking offers from those journals, while LexOpus submits to author selected law journals in a sequence of short-term exclusive firm offers. This article briefly discusses the aims of LexOpus, some operational details, and a few concerns with maintaining such software.

The Law Library of Congress Enhances Access to Foreign and Comparative Law Information: The Global Legal Monitor and the Multinational Collections Database
By: Luis M. Acosta, Senior Information Analyst, Law Library of Congress

Luis Acosta describes two electronic publications maintained by the Law Library of Congress: the Global Legal Information Monitor, which monitors international, comparative, foreign and domestic developments, and the Multinational Collections Database, which assists researchers in finding legal information on a particular jurisdiction or jurisdictions.

The Global Legal Information Network Database
By: Charles P. Dove, Global Information Network Project Manager, Law Library of Congress

In an article entitled The Global Legal Information Database, Charles Dove provides an overview of the history and development of this free database which is maintained by the Law Library of Congress.
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Search This Page, Search This Section

We have added an enhancement to HeinOnline this month that will now allow you to search for a term on a specific page or within a specific section that you are reading. This search option is available directly from the page toolbar, so you will no longer have to navigate to the search options in order to search within the article or document you are reading.