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Coming soon: Title 51 Space Law!  More here.

So, West is coming out with a new research system.  It will be rolled out next week (February 1).  When will we see it?  Not sure yet.  But, a few law librarians have seen it and are letting us know about it.  First, our own Jason Eiseman (along with former YLS librarian Tom Boone. Greg Lambert, and Jason Wilson) discuss ...

Below please find the text of an email that was sent to YLS students regarding current awareness tools. Today, I thought that I would let you know about a few tools that can help you keep current.  These tools can help you keep current with the law in particular fields or scholarship in particular fields, by particular authors, or that ...

Just received this press release from the YLS Information Society Project: Yale ISP Celebrates Open Access Week with New Research The Information Society Project at Yale Law School (Yale ISP) today launched three new reports on the state of access to knowledge in comparative national perspective. The new works feature research on challenges ...

Tough question to answer, but Reed-Elsivier took a crack at it.  They looked closely at the carbon costs related to one journal (the aptly enetitled Fuel)  There are two sides to the cost: production and end use.  The biggest carbon impact in journal production was employee commuting and business travel.    ...

This article from the New York Review of Books describes the problems facing students and universities in the current financial situation as well as the impact on access to education and further stratification of education.  Worth a read!

Can Gurkhas who served in the British army settle in the UK?  Rule denying automatic rights for those who served while the regiment was based in Hong Kong (until 1997) was overturned by the high court.  Efforts to compromise look to be a mess.  See this article.

The European Parliament has voted to extend the copyright from 50 to 70 years on recordings.  The EU Internal Market Commissioner had proposed 95 years!  If passed, will this become known as the "Beatles Act"?  Their catalog was to start becoming copyright-free in 2012! More

On 21 April 2009, the [European] Commission adopted a report and a green paper on the functioning of the existing rules on jurisdiction of the courts and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. It concludes that time has come to achieve a free circulation of judgments in civil and commercial matters in the European Union on the ...

A recent report by Consumers International has concluded that the UK is the worst among 16 leading nations at protecting the rights of the users. "UK copyright law is the oldest but also the most out of date. It’s time our copyright law caught up with the real world," said Ed Mayo, chief executive of Consumer Focus. "The ...