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Database news

By Angela Carritt Please follow the links below to see the most recent news and updates from: HeinOnline – In this issue the launch of Hein’s new United Nations Collection including the UN Treaty series, ICJ Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders,  UN yearbooks and more. The Law Library has taken out a subscription… Read More »

New databases: Introducing i-law and other databases

By Angela Carritt We now have a subscription to i-law which includes law reports and journals in the fields of insurance, intellectual property and construction law. Particular gems include the Lloyd’s Law Reports and Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Quarterly (a title which has been on our wish list for a while). To access i-Law follow… Read More »

New URL for Westlaw

By Angela Carritt Westlaw has a new URL (http://tinyurl.com/3sbzfq).  Please update your favourites and bookmarks or follow links from Oxlip+ or the Law Library web site.   When you follow the link you will be prompted to find University of Oxford in an A-Z of institutions (under U) and to enter your Oxford single sign on. This new… Read More »

Accessing databases off campus: Use the new Oxlip+ service as an alternative to VPN

By Angela Carritt The Library Service now has a brand new way of accessing online resources: Oxlip+    This new service will allow you to access all legal databases (including Westlaw and Lexis) from off campus without using the VPN.  All you will need is your Oxford single sign on (webmail) username and password. Please note –… Read More »

All change please! Passwords for legal databases changing over the vac!

By Angela Carritt From 31 July we will no longer be able to use Athens to log on to legal databases.  By October we will have a new system which will make logging on painless. However during the summer we will be in a transition phase.   During this time routes through to some databases (and particularly Lexis, Westlaw and HeinOnline)… Read More »

Another new database: Carilaw – Caribbean primary resources

By Angela Carritt Two new databases in one week!    Our second new database this week is Carilaw. Carilaw brings together treaties, legislation and case law from the Caribbean.     Coverage varies between the different jurisdictions of the Caribbean but in general Privy Council, Court of Appeal and Supreme/High Court judgments are available.  Judgments from other courts are available… Read More »

New database: Integrum – press, legal and financial information from Russia and the CIS

By Angela Carritt I am delighted to announce that we now have a subscription to Integrum, a collection of Russian and CIS databases including newspapers, journals and information agency archives, media information, official publications and legislation.   Russian texts are translated online into English. To use Integrum please follow links from the Law Library’s list of… Read More »