March 31, 2008
SaraJean's Gov Doc of the Week for March 31, 2008
Last week, the GPO announced the release of Authenticated Public and Private Laws for the 110th Congress on GPO Access. This is part of GPO's authentication initiative. According to GPO, "Authenticated public and private laws within this application contain digitally signed and certified PDF files that contain GPO's Seal of Authenticity. These files have been digitally signed and certified using Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology."
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March 24, 2008
SaraJean's Gov Doc of the Week for March 24, 2008
The Department of Homeland Security's Civics and Citizenship Toolkit is a multimedia resource designed for those wanting to become United States citizens. It contains books, DVDs, a CD-ROM, and some very nice civics flashcards.
The Law Library's copy of this resource is in the Gov Docs area at HS 8.2:C 49/2/TOOLKIT/2007
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March 18, 2008
New Issues of GLOBAL JURIST Journals
The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) announced the following peer reviewed articles recently published in Global Jurist journals.
o To view any of these bepress Law Journal articles connect to the Journal link via
The Law Library’s Law Electronic Resources on the School of Law Intranet or via
The OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center (EJC)
GLOBAL JURIST FRONTIERS
• The Law in a Post-Colonial State: The Shareholders' Oppression Remedy in Malaysia, Mohammad Rizal Salim and Philip Lawton (Recipient of the 2007 Global Jurist Gold Medal).
GLOBAL JURIST ADVANCES
• Development Deficit and Modern Law's Myth of Origin, Wenwei Guan.
• Law v. Statute, Ius v. Lex: An Analysis of a Critical Relation in Roman and Civil Law, Ignazio Castellucci.
GLOBAL JURIST TOPICS
• Bioethics and Market: Considerations Regarding the Use of Stem Cells in the Giuridical Field, Cristiane Avancini Alves.
• Las Oscilaciones de la Propiedad Colectiva en las Constituciones Andinas, Rodrigo Míguez Núñez (Recipient of the 2007 Global Jurist Bronze Medal).
o “Globel Jurist News
Global Jurist is pleased to announce the winners of the 2007 Global Jurist Medals. These medals are awarded to the best submissions from scholars in Africa, Asia, Latin America and beyond, that shed critical light on current developments in global capitalism. The prize is sponsored by the Preparatory Committee of the International University College of Torino.
• Gold Medal (£1,500 prize)
o Mohammad Rizal Salim and Philip Lawton, The Law in a Post-colonial State: The Shareholders' Oppression Remedy in Malaysia.
• Silver Medal (£1,000 prize)
o Hakeem O. Yusuf, The Judiciary and Constitutionalism in Transitions: A Critique.
• Bronze Medal (£500 prize)
o Rodrigo Míguez Núñez, Las Oscilaciones de la Propiedad Colectiva en las Constituciones Andina.
• Special Mention
o Kamal Gadiyev, Arbitration of Energy-related Disputes under the Energy Charter Treaty (To be published shortly).
About GLOBAL JURIST
GLOBAL JURIST offers a forum for scholarly cyber-debate on issues of comparative law, law and economics, international law, law and development, and legal anthropology. Mindful of globalization and respectful of cultural differences, linguistic and cultural barriers are overcome and legal issues are finally discussed outside of the narrow limits imposed by positivism, parochialism, ethnocentrism, imperialism and chauvinism in the law. Articles are published in three quality-rated tiers - Frontiers, Advances, and Topics - that are distinguished by breadth of appeal and overall quality. The journal is edited by an impressive list, including Ugo Mattei, Alfred and Hanna Fromm Chair in International and Comparative Law at Hastings College of the Law. Authors include notable professors from The London School of Economics, Oxford University, and The University of California, Berkeley.”
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March 17, 2008
SaraJean's Gov Doc of the Week for March 17, 2008
Though it is not a government document itself, the goal of ALA GODORT's State Agency Databases wiki is to "pull together all publicly accessible state agency databases." Some states are more complete than others, but Ohio is among the more complete ones.
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March 13, 2008
Seromba judgment (ICTR, Rwandan tribunal)
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Seromba summary
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March 10, 2008
SaraJean's Gov Doc of the Week for March 10, 2008
The Federal Register Tutorial on the National Archives website provides information about the background of the Federal Register, instructions on using it, and information on how the public can participate in rulemaking. The tutorial is made up of 12 PDF files, most of which are text-based with hyperlinks.
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March 07, 2008
Federal Reserve & Business Sources
CWRU's business-related research databases
-- Most of these databases are for exclusive use by currently-affiliated CWRU faculty, students, and staff. A couple databases may be available to registered CWRU alumni. (OhioLINK datbases are included.)
OhioLINK's business-related research databases
-- Business-related research databases for currently-affiliated OhioLINK users.
FRED (R)
- databases, including historical information
Beige Book
- Current Economic Conditions
Monetary Trends (St. Louis Fed)
Securities and Exchange Commission
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March 06, 2008
Internet Technology in Plain English
Confused about the underlying structure and utility of RSS, blogs, and wikis?
View brief instructional videos at Common Craft
(Also available on Youtube.)
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recommended silent movie resources
Here are a few silent movie resources whether one is interested in production details for individual films or the latest dvd releases or screenings with live musical accompaniment or even just photos of Clara Bow, Rudolph Valentino and Rin Tin Tin...
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March 05, 2008
Suite of Current Awareness Services for Intellectual Property Law
Tarleton Law Library of The University of Texas School of Law now provides three current awareness services tracking major areas of intellectual property law:
• Current Copyright Literature: Web Page [RSS Feed]
• Current Patent Literature: Web Page [RSS Feed]
• Current Trademark Literature: Web Page [RSS Feed]
The Law Library staff reviews law reviews and journals and many other legal periodicals as they are received in the library. They identify articles concerning U.S. Copyright Law, Patent Law or Trademark Law. Beyond merely providing the basic bibliographic information for the articles, they also supply a scanned first page from each article. The goal is to better enable readers to know if they are interested in reading the full article. Plans are to update the services two to three times a week depending on the volume of cites available.
Thanks to the Law Librarian Blog for bringing this to our attention.
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Finding Books (Treatises) for Legal Research
Traditional, print books can be obtained from a variety of sources: the CWRU Law Library or other campus libraries; OhioLINK libraries; or Interlibrary Loan (ILL).
In order to find a book on your topic, try a keyword search on an online catalog. When you find a relevant title, look at the subject headings and click on the hyperlink to find more titles on that subject.
online catalog of the CWRU libraries
OhioLINK catalog (Search over 47 million item at 87 institutions.)
WorldCat (Search over 1 billion items at over 10,000 libraries.)
Interlibrary Loan (Order books not available on campus or via OhioLINK.)
Online books (E-book) (OhioLINK patrons)
CWRU Law students may be able to access Thomson/West publications via Westlaw.
CWRU Law students may be able to access Matthew Bender publications via Lexis.
OhioLINK E-Book Center
ABC-CLIO (reference books)
Oxford University Press (scholarly works) & Oxford Reference Online
NetLibrary
Safari Books Online (IT & computer science) (academic license link, far left)
Humanities E-Book
Project Gutenberg(public domain works
IndexMaster (CWRU Law School students)
Search tables of contents and indexes from multiple publishers.
Use the sources listed above to obtain relevant sources.
Google Book Search
For most titles, only snippets of related text are available.
Tip: search for content/legal argument in IndexMaster or Google Book Search, then order any useful book you find via OhioLINK or ILL, if it is not available at a CWRU library.
Smaller publishers and advocacy groups may place the full-text of their publications on their websites and/or Google Book Search. Use publications of advocacy groups with caution, of course.
Research sources may provide other relevant book titles, which you can search for by title on any of the online catalogs.
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March 04, 2008
Ohio Supreme Court Opinion on Traffic Light Cameras Opinion
The Ohio Supreme Court Summary on the holding that "Local Red Light, School Zone Camera Ordinances Do Not Exceed Cities’ ‘Home Rule’ Authority" includes a link to the official opinion.
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March 03, 2008
SaraJean's Gov Doc of the Week for March 3, 2008
Canada's national statistics agency, Statistics Canada is releasing information from the 2006 census. This site contains statistics, studies, technical papers, and current awareness information. It is user-friendly.
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