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Keeping Current

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...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Reference Blog (Weblog) by John Nann on 10-28-2009
Is researching online better for the environment?

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...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Reference Blog (Weblog) by John Nann on 09-03-2009
Roberts on Research

Hmm, the Chief Justice isn't so enamored with the Internet on online research. The Des Moines Register quotes Chief Justice Roberts as saying that "[t] he Internet is a powerful tool that nonetheless threatens to undermine the critical thinking and research skills lawyers need to effectively...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Reference Blog (Weblog) by John Nann on 10-03-2008
United Nations Treaty Collection

The new and improved United Nations Treaty Collection database is up and running. In this fabulous open-access database, you can find the complete run of the United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS), League of Nations Treaty Series (LoN), Multilateral treaties deposited with the UN, Status of Treaties (MTDSG...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 09-30-2008
Research Preparation for your Supervised Analytical Writing

This fall, the Law Library will be hosting a series of fall research seminars focused on helping law students prepare for their supervised analytical writing (SAW) assignment by demonstrating the emerging technologies in the field of legal research. Students will learn about helpful (and not so helpful...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Reference Blog (Weblog) by ct286 on 09-15-2008
China-Related Electronic Journals

Legal periodicals are often a good starting point when you are researching a broad legal topic. The Law Library has access to three online legal journal databases in Chinese: Chinese Academic Journals (CAJ), Wan Fang's Chinese Online Journals (COJ) and ChinaLawInfo's journal collection . For...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Evelyn Ma on 06-19-2008
UNdata - a New Portal for UN Statistical Data

The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) , the statistical arm of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) , has launched a new web-based data service UNdata. Instead of clicking through data sets scattered in the websites of different UN agencies, users can now search and download...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Evelyn Ma on 05-30-2008
Children's Rights in Iran

A new report from the Law Library of Congress has been posted. The report covers and references both international treaty obligations and domestic legislation.

Posted to Yale Law Library - Reference Blog (Weblog) by John Nann on 04-01-2008
Now this looks very useful: history meets technology, again!

It has always seemed that history is the area of research best suited for the heavy use of technology. A new wiki on English medieval legal documents confirms this again! The notice of the wiki, published on the listserv of the American Association of Law Libraries Special Interest Section for Foreign...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Reference Blog (Weblog) by Tom Boone on 03-11-2008
Library of Congress RSS Feeds

The Library of Congress has a number of RSS feeds. Many are primarily of interest to those headed to DC, but there are also some excellent copyright feeds, law feeds, and other interesting feeds. A list of the feeds with descriptions is available here: http://www.loc.gov/rss/ .

Posted to Yale Law Library - Reference Blog (Weblog) by Tom Boone on 03-02-2008

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