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November 15, 2019
Research Tip: Canadiana Online is Now Free to Access!
By Alan Kilpatrick Earlier this year, Canadiana Online’s unparalleled online collection of historical materials became free to access. The collection, available at no charge at Canadiana.ca, contains more than 60 million digitized pages of books, periodicals, and government publications from early Canadian history. Why should lawyers and legal researchers take note of this thrilling development? Canadiana Online features an outstanding...
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November 1, 2019
Research Tip: Thousands of Canadian Legal Articles – Free!!
By Ken Fox, Reference Librarian No, I am not talking about HeinOnline. The Law Society of Ontario’s AccessCLE site hosts, at the time of writing, 9,543 CPD articles dating from 2004 to 2019. Here is an overview of the browsable collection. With this many articles available at a single source, best bet might be to use search rather than browse...
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October 1, 2019
The Next Generation of Legal Research is Here: Vincent
By Alan Kilpatrick Meet Vincent! The Next Generation of Legal Research (CPD 240)Wednesday, October 2, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST Are you ready for the next generation of legal research technology and the biggest disruption Canada’s legal information landscape has ever seen: artificial intelligence? Don’t miss this Continuing Professional Development webinar with Ken Fox (Law Society Library, Saskatoon), Alan...
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September 25, 2019
Over 9,500 decisions from the Manitoba Reports have been added to CanLII!
Reposted with permission from The CanLII Blog CanLII is grateful to have received a grant from the Manitoba Law Foundation to add decisions from the first and second series of the Manitoba Reports to CanLII.org. For the last year we have been doing research into what gaps there are in legal research for jurisdictions across Canada. In Manitoba we discovered that there was a...
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September 9, 2019
Law Librarian On Site
By Alan Kilpatrick Need help with your legal research? Law Society of Saskatchewan librarian, Alan Kilpatrick, will be on-site at RPL’s Central Branch to help guide you through the many legal resources available. Please contact our libraries for further information. Evenings:Monday, September 23: 5:00-8:00 pmMonday, October 28: 5:00-8:00 pmMonday, November 25: 5:00-8:00 pm Afternoons:Thursday, September 12: 1:00-4:00 pm Thursday, October 10: 1:00-4:00 pmThursday, November...
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September 3, 2019
Meet Vincent!
By Ken Fox, Research Librarian The Law Society Library is pleased to announce that we have added Vincent to our menu of online research services available to all Saskatchewan lawyers. Vincent is an intelligent research assistant by vLex. Vincent can analyze a judgment, brief, legal memorandum or any other legal document, and extract significant concepts to generate the most relevant...
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