Canadian Legislative Pulse With Regulations
The Canadian Legislative Pulse provides up-to-date information on the status of Canadian legislation.The database:
- Covers all jurisdictions
- Tracks changes since your last log-in
- Offers quick links to legislative assemblies
- Sorts legislation by Bill number, Bill title, or Chapter number
- Allows you to quickly track selected Bills with 'My Bills' feature
- E-mail notification of new Bills
- Continuously updated
- Presents the latest updates at a glance
- Provides easy-to-use search templates
- Searchable by Bills and corresponding Acts that are amended
- Weekly Bill summary
With the addition of the newly-added Regulations-Tracking feature, you can now streamline your research one step further! You can:
- Access Regulations by number and title
- Clearly identify amended Regulations
- Identify enabling Acts for a particular Regulation
- Access links to the various Federal and Provincial Gazettes
- Search Regulations by number, title or by enabling Act
URL: http://pulse.cch.ca/logon.aspx
Password: http://www.lib.uwo.ca/secure/passwords.htmlACCESS: If connecting from off-campus, users will need to go through Western Libraries' Proxy Server
Justis
Justis.com [U.K.] is Justis Publishing's online legal research service. Western Libraries' subscription is to specific files within the Caselaw collection:
- The Law Reports (1865-present)
- The Law Reports Digest (1865-present)
- Weekly Law Reports
- Weekly Law Reports Digest
- The English Reports (1220-1873)
To access the database, click on the link below, and click on "LOG IN to Justis.com". The login relies on IP recognition, so there is no need to enter a password. Click on "CONTINUE TO JUSTIS.COM".
ACCESS: If connecting from off-campus, users will need to go through Western Libraries' Proxy Server
Maritime Law Book
Maritime Law Book, founded in 1969, is located in Fredericton, New Brunswick and is owned by New Brunswick residents. Canadian legal researchers are familiar with the MLB law reporters, which comprise the National Reporter System, and cover every jurisdiction in Canada, except Quebec. MLB also receives decisions from the Judicial Office of the House of Lords (U.K.). The National Reporter System is available through the MLB database. This website has been made accessible to Law Students through a special educational agreement with MLB.Law students can pick up a personal password from Elizabeth Bruton in 219F.
ACCESS: Your personal password will give you access from home as well.
Social Science Research Network
The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.The different "networks" available are:
Under the Legal Scholarship Network, there are different types of documents:
- Accounting Research Network
- Economic Research Network
- Financial Economics Network
- Legal Scholarship Network
- Management Research Network
- Research Papers: Law & Economics/Public Law & Legal Theory (no charge)
- LSN Conferences and Meetings (no charge)
- Full Text Journals
- Subject Matter Journals
The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 33,700 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 16,800 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. The eLibrary also includes the research papers of a number of Fee Based Partner Publications.
Each of SSRN's networks encourages the early distribution of research results by publishing submitted abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world. Hundreds of journals, publishers, and institutions in Partners in Publishing and in academic and other Cooperating Institutions provide working papers for distribution through SSRN's eLibrary and abstracts for publication in SSRN's electronic journals.
URL: http://www.ssrn.com/
ACCESS: Site licensing limited to Faculty and Librarians in the Faculty of Law.