Advance Legal Research Tips Maryvon Côté Acting Head Librarian Nahum Gelber Law Library

 Services at the Law Library  Primary Sources: What is new?, Major Changes, and Useful Tips:  Canadian Law  Foreign Common Law  Foreign Civil Law  International Law  Historical Legal Sources  Tips for Searching Secondary Sources:  Keeping Informed: Outline

 Gelber Law Library Building schedule  As of October 18, open 24 hours Monday to Thursday, and Sunday from 10am.  Open until midnight on Friday and Saturday  Law Subject Guides  New Spirit Scanner (main floor)  Request Books from other McGill Branch Libraries  Via the Library Catalogue Services at the Law Library

 New Resources:  Canadian Acts of the Parliament (via HeinOnline)  Major interface changes:  SOQUIJ Recherche Juridique (SOQUIJ)  La Reference (Quebec)  TaxNet.pro  Useful tips:  McGill Guide via WLNC  Encyclopedic Digest (e.g., Halsbury’s Laws of Canada via QL and CED via WLNC)  Canada Digest (via QL) or Canadian Abridgment (via WLNC)  CAIJ Primary Sources: Canadian Law

 New resources:  University Press Scholarship Online 2015; Oxford Scholarship Online 2015 ebooks  Women and the Law (Peggy); Israel Law Reports via HeinOnline  And more e-books collection by publisher…  Major interface changes:  WestLawNext Canada  HeinOnline  Useful tips :  LexisNexis QuickLaw  Restatements & Principles of the Law via WLNC  Foreign Law Guide (Brill)  JustCite Primary Sources : Foreign Common Law

 New Resources:  Strada lex (full-text journal regarding Belgium and the EU)  Useful tips :  Legal commentaries and Legal opinion by Jurisis (Secondary Sources)  France:  Helenia (French Festschriften and mélanges)  Dalloz.fr (France)  Jurisclasseur via QuickLaw  Other:  Vlex  WorldLII (free) Primary Sources: Foreign Civil Law

 New resources:  Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law ebooks  World Treaty Library via HeinOnline  United Nations Law Collection via HeinOnline  Brill International Law 2015 ebooks  Brill Human Rights and Humanitarian Law 2015 ebooks  Useful tips :  Hague Academy of International Law. Collected Course Online (Brill)  Oxford Reports on International Law Primary Sources: International Law

 New resources:  Oxford Historical Treaties  Making of Modern Law Foreign Sources  History of International Law via HeinOnline  Scottish Legal History: Featuring Publications of the Stair Society via HeinOnline  Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law via HeinOnline  Useful tips:  From the Law Subject Guide  click: Law e-books collections  click the Historical collections tab Primary Sources: Historical Legal Sources

 Scholarly articles by jurists/legal experts:  Full-Text Journal Searches  Periodical Indexes  Legal Treatises/Scholarly Monographs available in the Library:  Worldcat Local  Classic Catalogue  E-books  Useful Tip:  Use Connectors in full-text searching (/p, /s, /5)  Why is it not possible to get online access to some journal articles? (e.g., The Supreme Court Law Review) Tips for Searching Secondary Sources

 Vendors Presentations at the Law Library this Fall  WestLawNext Canada  LexisNexis QuickLaw  SOQUIJ Recherche Juridique  Quid Novi Newsletter  Gelber Law Library Blog  Twitter / Facebook Keeping informed