Over the vacation, LexisLibrary introduced a new platform for its foreign and international materials. As holders of an Oxford SSO this means access to a variety of both primary and secondary sources from Australia, Canada, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia , New Zealand, Singapore, and the United States. Lexis is not the only database for foreign… Read More »
This Christmas, perhaps you’re hoping to find a battleship in your stocking. Perhaps you’re thinking you might just sail out into open water and randomly fire to see if you can hit a neighbour’s ship. It would be foolhardy to take such a journey only to begin the New Year in a holding cell, so the… Read More »
George R.R. Martin neatly encapsulates the precariousness of being a character in A Game of Thrones, the televised version & extension to his books. A game built on such an ethos is clearly what anyone’s Christmas needs! Games producers have been quick to translate the, err, cut and thrust of the TV series into coloured… Read More »
Let’s start with a game for 3 to 4 year olds – and doting older relatives, happy for an excuse to sit comfortably and engage in minimal mental activity for the writer knows into which category she falls! The object of this Don’t break the ice is to help Phillip the Penguin chop out blocks… Read More »
A reminder, from OUP… In response to the refugee crisis in Europe, Oxford University Press has made more than 30 book chapters, journal articles, and pieces of content from online resources freely accessible to assist those working with refugees on the ground, as well as anyone who would like to know more about the framework… Read More »
The Law Library has just bought an eBook package from Brill/Nijhoff for recent books on international law, and human rights and humanitarian law. This provides full text access to 133 books from 2015 onwards, and all the books are catalogued in SOLO so you can link through easily to the Brill platform, Brill Online. Then… Read More »
The Law Bod has now got a subscription to a new (for us!) database: EuroCases. Please note that it requires a special username and password (not the usual Oxford SSO). To find out what the magic sesame is just log in (with your aforementioned Oxford SSO) to the special Weblearn site Please remember your basic… Read More »
Joyeux Noël is a French film based on a real – but all too brief & patchy – suspension of fighting during World War One, the Christmas Truce of 1914. In some places, football broke out …. in others spontaneous gift giving: Henry Williamson was able to write to his family on 26 December, while… Read More »
If you are an avid user of Westlaw International you may have noticed that since Friday there is another link when you click on Services titled ‘International Materials‘. It’s not a separate service but a new Westlaw platform for its international materials which is part of their WestlawNext platform. This post will have a… Read More »
No – not a definition of the Law Bod, but the name of another platform of e-books from Oxford University Press – known as OLRL for short! The subject areas of this e-library are titles on International Commercial Arbitration (ICMA), International Commercial Law (ICML), Financial and Banking Law (FBL), and Private International Law (PRIL). The… Read More »
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