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Category: New Tools and Databases


MOOCs and You

On April 29, 2013, the Cleveland Plain Dealer featured an article about Case Western Reserve University’s first free online MOOCs, or massive open online courses. The initial response has been impressive — more than 80,000 people from around the world have signed up for the two noncredit courses. Prof. Richard Boyatzis of the CWRU Weatherhead School …Read the Rest

OSBA CLE eBook Library: Free Access for Student Members

Have you ever seen the Ohio State Bar Association’s catalog of PDF reference manuals for CLE seminars? On several occasions, I have found an interesting-sounding reference manual and been disappointed that I had to pay for the CLE course in order to read it. However, last week, the OSBA sent its student members an e-mail …Read the Rest

Introducing Making of Modern Law: Treatises

The library purchased a number of new online resources over the summer that enhance the core research collection that we can offer to online-oriented researchers, while aligning with our collection strategies by imposing little in the way of upkeep or other continuing costs. Foremost among these is the Making of Modern Law treatises collection, from …Read the Rest

New at Bloomberg BNA: Social Media Law and Policy Report, Plus Foldering & Sharing

Designed to help users stay current with the “shifting legal issues surrounding social media,” Social Media Law and Policy Report provides news, hot topics, relevant cases and statutes and other primary sources, references, tools and analysis in a fully-searchable platform. Bloomberg BNA’s brand of in-depth analysis covers social media aspects of: Labor and Employment Intellectual …Read the Rest

State Attorney General Reports and Opinions – New on HeinOnline

The Law Library now subscribes to HeinOnline’s State Attorney General Reports and Opinions library. The reports and attorney general opinions for each state back to at least 1980 are currently available in this collection. In addition, opinions and reports for California, New York, Washington, and Wyoming are available back to inception. HeinOnline intends to update …Read the Rest

KSL Summon: A First Glance from a Law Librarian

KSL Summon, a new search service, is a “web-scale discovery tool” that has been adopted primarily by academic libraries. It is designed to compete with Google Scholar by providing quick access to scholarly full-text resources available from selected scholarly databases to which the library subscribes. Summon is programmed to simultaneously search the campus libraries’ Library …Read the Rest