General resources
Current Law Journal Content
Hats off to Washington & Lee Law School for their fantastic resource, Current Law Journal Content. CLJC provides summary views and feeds for the content of over 1220 law journals, sets up searches for individual articles across relevant web resources and links to full content where available. (Of course, full content is free for only […]
A half tonne of bloggers
I’ve just chanced upon the new Guardian site Comment is Free as it has hit the ether. Must be brand new as Goog has only one result for it. Comment is free is a major expansion of Guardian comment and analysis on the web. It is a collective group blog, bringing together regular columnists from […]
Get your Free Pint
A long-overdue mention for FreePint – a community of 72,000+ information researchers worldwide launched in 1997. The FreePint Newsletter is packed with tips on using the internet for serious research. There are also online Forums and Resources and you can post your tricky research-related questions to the FreePint Bar. It is free to subscribe to […]
Register of commercial online law resources
BIALL has set up a Legal Online Resource Database – a register of all the online services provided by the mainstream commercial publishers. You can view the register by selecting title, host, subject, material type, or jurisdiction, or view a listing of what’s new. Records give a brief summary of coverage and link through to […]
The UK legal web is 10 years old
In the Autumn of 1994 Jeffrey Green Russell was the first UK solicitors practice to establish its own website. Thus began the UK legal web. By early 1995 it comprised a handful of intrepid law firms and barristers, the Law Schools at Bristol and Strathclyde and infolaw and Delia Venables – the first portal sites. […]
Directories of Online Law Journals
Lund University Libraries last week launched phase 2 of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The new version of DOAJ now includes records at article level and a search functionality allowing users to search articles in potentially all Open Access Journals. The Directory aims to increase the visibility and ease of use of open […]
Legal Reference: Law Society Library catalogue online
In March the Law Society launched Catalyst, a new online service enabling searches of its complete catalogue of legal publications dating from the 16th century. The catalogue also contains several specialist indexes compiled by the library enquiry team, covering English and European Union cases, EU documents, Commencements of Statutes, Precedents and Frequently Asked Questions. Catalyst […]
