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The Newsletter of the Bora Laskin Law Library
September 1999 Volume 4, Number 8
Electronic Journal Indexes and Library Announcements
Newspapers at the University of
Library Tours
Toronto
by Shikha Sharma Library Staff will be conducting tours daily at 2:00
Reference Librarian p.m. from September 8th to September 17th
(Weekends Excluded)
Interdisciplinary thinking has become an
essential component of legal education. Over Library Hours
the years there has been an increasing
emphasis on studying the connection of law to Monday - Thursday 8:45 a.m. to 11:00p.m.
other disciplines such as philosophy, Friday 8:45 a.m. to 5:00p.m.
economics, criminology, sociology, political Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 8:00p.m.
science and business. For example, without Sunday 1:00 p.m. to 8:00p.m.
an understanding of the underlying principles
of feminism and feminist theory, it is Library Cards (T-Cards)
impossible to carry out a meaningful dialogue
on womens rights. The interdisciplinary aspect New students can pick up their T-Cards from
of legal studies requires access to materials Room 2054 in the Robarts Library (130 St George
and resources available beyond the confines of St). Further information can be found at the
a traditional law library. Currently, the Library's Web Site at http://ww.library.utoronto.
University of Toronto Library System provides ca/services/card/index.htm
access to an extensive and growing collection
of electronic information resources via the First Year Legal Research Lecture Series
Internet. These include a large multi-
disciplinary collection of indexes which, in These lectures will help you prepare for your first
addition to citations, may provide abstracts year library assignments. All lectures take place in
and full-text articles or other useful the Bennett Lecture Hall.
information. Introduction and Canadian Secondary Legal
Resources: (Assignment #1)
Electronic Journals Indexes and Wed. September 15, 1999, 12:45 to 2:00 p.m.
Canadian primary legal resources:
Abstracts (Assignment #2:)
Mon. October 4, 12:45 to 2:00 p.m.
The following is a brief description of some US and UK legal research: (Assignment #3)
electronic indexes that may be of interest to the Mon. November 22, 12:45 to 2:00 p.m.
legal researcher. These are available via the
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Internet from the University of Toronto Robarts ABI/Inform: (1984-present)
Librarys Web page. To gain access to these indexes, ABI/Inform Global: (1970-present)
link to (http://www.library.utoronto.ca). Once
connected, click on Resources, select Journal Indexes ABI/Inform indexes and abstracts articles from
and Abstracts, and then select the index that you have over one thousand journals on business and
chosen to research from the alphabetical list. management. Many of the articles are also
available full-text. ABI/Inform is useful for doing
Access UN: (1996-1998) research in accounting, banking, computers,
economics, engineering management, finance,
Access UN is an excellent tool for conducting current health care, human resources, insurance,
and retrospective research on international topics such international trends, law, libraries, management,
as the environment, human rights, peace and security manufacturing, marketing, public administration,
and other economic, social, cultural and humanitarian taxation, transportation, and other business-
issues. It provides bibliographic access to articles from related topics.
UN periodicals and documents from the General
Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Bibliography of Native North Americans:
Council, Trusteeship Council, Secretariat and (1500s-present)
International Court of Justice. Some of the documents,
such as the resolutions from the General Assembly The Bibliography of Native North Americans
(1981-onward), Security Council (1974-onward) and contains citations to books, journal articles,
Economic Social Council (1982-onward) are also essays, conference papers and United States and
available full-text. Canadian government documents. It is an
excellent tool for conducting current and historical
research on the native peoples of Canada, the
United States and Mexico. A thesaurus helps to
LawLink identify definitions and subject headings used in
The Newsletter of the Bora Laskin Law Library the index.
Canadian Business and Current Affairs :
LawLink is published 9 times a year by the staff of (CBCA)
the Bora Laskin Law Library. The purpose of
LawLink is to inform Law faculty and students of Citations and Abstracts: (1982-1992)
upcoming library activities, new developments in Full-Text Reference: (1993-present)
legal research and new electronic sources of legal
information. This bibliographic database indexes Canadian
business and trade periodicals, popular
Extracts from this publication may be reproduced magazines, academic journals as well as daily
for individual use without permission provided that newspapers including The Globe & Mail,
the source is fully acknowledged. Financial Post and Toronto Star. It provides
citations to journal articles, book reviews,
LawLink is available on the Bora Laskin Law newswire stories and broadcast transcripts on all
Library's home page subjects. Once connected, select the CBCA
(http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca) database of your choice.
Please direct comments, suggestions or submissions
to Susan Barker, LawLink editor at 978-5799 or by
e-mail to susan.barker@utoronto.ca.
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CBCA Full-Text Business: (1996-present) on women issues such as human rights, legal status,
pay equity, family life and reproductive rights are
CBCA Full-text Business indexes full-text articles drawn from many disciplines such as sociology,
from major Canadian business periodicals, psychology, health, education, business administration
newsletters and newspapers. Exclusively Canadian and political science.
in its scope and updated monthly, it is an excellent
source for researching corporate information, Criminal Justice Abstracts: (1968-present)
industry trends and topics such as securities and
corporate governance. Criminal Justice Abstracts provides indexes and
abstracts of articles from major journals in
criminology and related disciplines, books and
Canadian Periodical Index (CPI.Q): reports from government and non-governmental
(1988-present) agencies. Topics include crime trends, prevention
projects, corrections, juvenile delinquency, police,
CPI.Q. is a multi-disciplinary database that courts, offenders, victims, and sentencing.
provides citations and selected full-text from more
than four hundred Canadian and international Current Research: (1996-present)
publications, including the full text of selected
sections of the Globe and Mail. Current Research provides convenient access to
citations and abstracts of all dissertations and theses
Canadian Research Index: (1982-present) from the University of Toronto published in UMIs
Dissertation Abstracts database. Its easy-to-use
CRI provides citations and abstracts to Canadian interface allows searching by keyword, author and
federal, provincial and municipal government adviser. The full-text of all theses and dissertations
publications. It includes annual reports and published after 1996 can be downloaded for free in
publications as well as policy papers and PDF format. In some cases, a free preview of the
monographs. Note that the citations you find first twenty-four pages is also available. Full text
through your search in this index should be documents in other formats such as hard-cover or
searched in the Universitys catalogue for call soft-cover paper copy, microfilm and microfiche can
numbers and the location of libraries where they be obtained directly from the publisher for a fee.
can be found. If the document is not available in
hard-copy in any of the campus libraries, you could Economic Literature Index (EconLit):
use the Microlog number provided in each CRI (1969-present)
citation to locate the document in microfiche format
at the Data, Map and Government Publications EconLit provides selected abstracts of articles from
Library at U of T. over four hundred international journals on
economics. Topics covered by this database include
Contemporary Womens Issues: economic development and growth; economic history
(1992-present) and forecasting; business and finance, consumer
economics; labour; marketing; and international and
The Contemporary Womens Issues database urban economics. It also provides bibliographic
provides abstracts or full-text access to global citations to essays, proceedings, books, book
information on women from journals, newsletters, reviews, working papers and dissertations. Most of
and research reports from non-profit groups, the articles are in English or include English
government and international agencies. Resources summaries.
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EIU Country Reports other languages are abstracted in French, with
all titles translated into English. This index is
EIU Country Reports provide information on the especially useful for researching countries for
political, economic, industrial and market conditions in which information is scarce.
specific countries. Each country report includes an
analysis of recent political and economic Monthly Catalog of United States
developments; current and historical trade and Government Publications (MOCAT):
economic data; an overview of major industrial trends; (1994-present)
and a political and economic outlook.
The Monthly Catalog of United States
Middle East/North Africa: (1993-present) Government Publications indexes print and
The Middle East/North Africa database contains electronic government documents created by
country profiles for Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, federal agencies and the Congress. Published by
Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, the Government Printing Office, the Catalog
Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, contains bibliographic records generated since
United Arab Emirates and Yemen. January 1994 and is updated daily. It also
indexes and provides direct links to documents
Western Europe: (1993-present) available on the web. The citations for
The Western Europe file includes profiles for Austria, documents not available electronically include a
Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, microfiche number. Most of these documents
Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, are available in microfiche format at the Data,
Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Map and Government Publications Library at U
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United of T which subscribes to the full-text of the
Kingdom. documents indexed in MOCAT.
Expanded Academic Index: (1980-present) PAIS International: (1972-present)
The Expanded Academic Index provides access to PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
articles from major academic journals in several International provides comprehensive
subject areas including law, sociology, communications coverage of all issues of public policy relating to
and current events. The database performs a keyword social, economic, or political problems, including
search by default but also allows browsing through a taxation, multinational corporations, banking,
Subject List and a Journal List from which you can labour, insurance, crime, health, international
select a subject heading or a journal that you would relations and international trade. It provides
like to search. citations to journal articles, books, government
documents, statistical compilations, committee
International Political Science Abstracts: reports, and reports of public,
(1989-present) intergovernmental, and private organizations
from all over the world.
International Political Science Abstracts is a
bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts ProQuest Digital Dissertations: (1861-
articles from periodicals and yearbooks published present)
throughout the world. It covers topics such as public
law, international public law, and international relations. Published by University Microforms
Articles in English are abstracted in English; those in International, Digital Dissertations provides
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access to citations and abstracts of doctoral UMI ProQuest Direct:
dissertations and masters theses in all subject
areas from over a thousand North American ProQuest Direct is a multi-disciplinary resource that
graduate schools and European Universities. The includes several databases on business and
database includes citations for materials ranging management, accounting, tax, banking, computing,
from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, education, religion and telecommunications. These
to those accepted as recently as last semester; databases are partially full-text and can be searched
those published from 1980 forward also include individually or all at once to find articles from
350-word abstracts, written by the author. journals, magazines and newspapers.
Citations for masters theses from 1988 forward
include 150-word abstracts. Of the 1.5 million Electronic Newspapers and News
titles listed, UMI offers over a million in full text.
Services
For these titles, the citation includes UMIs order
number.
There are also a large number of electronic
newspapers available from the U of T Librarys site.
Social Science Abstracts: (1994-present)
Two sites which may be of particular interest to legal
researchers are described below. From the
Social Sciences Abstracts provides
University of Toronto Robarts Librarys Web page
comprehensive abstracting and indexing of more
click on Resources, select Electronic Newspapers
than four hundred and fifteen English-language
and News Services, and then select the one you
periodicals in the areas of anthropology,
have chosen from the alphabetical list.
criminology, economics, law, geography, policy
studies, psychology, sociology, social work, and
Canadian NewsDisc: (1994-present)
urban studies. Abstracts range from fifty to three
hundred words and describe the content and
Canadian NewsDisc provides access to the full text
scope of the source articles.
of every column and feature published by the
Calgary Herald, Montreal Gazette, CBC News &
Sociological Abstracts:
Current Affairs, Edmonton Journal, Ottawa
Citizen, CTV News & Current Affairs, Vancouver
On Silver Platter: (1974-present)
Province, Toronto Star, National Post, Vancouver
On Cambridge Scientific Abstracts:
Sun, Halifax Daily News and Hamilton Spectator.
(1963-present)
The database does not include advertisements,
graphics, statistical tables and stock market report.
Sociological Abstracts provides access to the
worlds literature in sociology and related
Newscan:
disciplines such as anthropology, economics,
education, medicine, community development,
Newscan is a full-text database of major Canadian
philosophy, demography, political science, and
newspapers published in English or French. It also
social psychology. The database includes
includes some European newspapers such as Le
abstracts of journal articles selected from over
Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique, Liberation and
two thousand five hundred journals, plus
LExpress. The database covers editorial columns
conference papers, dissertations, book reviews
and features and does not include publicity material,
and selected sociology texts.
ads, stock exchange quotations, obituaries and
public notices.
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Searching and Printing Note that not all articles are available full-text.
When you generate records from your search,
The majority of the databases available through the relevant icons corresponding to Citation, Abstract,
U of T Library Home Page use either Silver Platter Full-text, Text +Graphics appear next to each
or Proquest as a search engine. The instructions article. To view an article in the desired format,
below will assist you in using either of these search click on the appropriate icon. While viewing an
engines most effectively. article, you can print it off directly or e-mail it to
yourself.
Search and Print Options on Silver Platter
Databases: Library Announcements (Cont.)
Most of the above databases use the keyword Electronic Reserves
searchable Silver Platter software. To make your
search more precise, you can limit it to a particular This year the Library is, as a pilot project,
field such as author, title, subject and date. The providing reserve readings electronically via the
database uses standard boolean operators such as Internet. Readings that are not included in your
AND, OR, NOT, NEAR, IN and WITH. You can casebooks will be made available via the
also use truncation and wildcards to retrieve Library's Intranet. Students will be able to
variations of your search term when you construct connect to the readings from the computer lab
searches. The truncation symbol (*) serves as a or from their home computers.
substitute for any string of zero or more characters.
The wildcard symbol (?) serves as a substitute for Accessing the Intranet and Electronic
one character or none. Reserves
Search and Print Options on ProQuest The Library's Intranet, which includes past
Databases: exams and the Electronic Reserve Collection is
available only to U of T law students. To
UMI ProQuest Direct contains several databases connect to the Intranet go to http://www.law-
that can be searched individually or all at once. Once lib2/utoronto.ca. Once connected you will be
connected select the box next to the database that asked for a username and password. In most
you want to search and click on Continue. By cases the username is your last name and the
default, the database searches the current file that password is the last four digits of your U of T
provides coverage from 1997-present. If you wish student number. If you have the same last name
to search for items from 1970-present, click on as another student or faculty member your
Backfile. username is firstname lastname and the
password is the last four digits of your student
You can conduct a basic search for a word such as number. NAC students without student numbers
constitution or a phrase such as Constitutional Law. should speak to Susan Barker in the Library
For sophisticated searching, click on the Advanced who will give you a password.
tab. The Advanced Search interface provides a
drop-down menu that allows entering words or QuickLaw Passwords
phrases and restricting them to specific fields such as
author, article title, abstract, publication title and Returning Students:
subject. Also more than one search term or phrase
can be combined using relevant operators such as QuickLaw has activated all educational
AND, OR, AND NOT, WITHIN 3, PRE/1. passwords as of September 1st, 1999. If you
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have any trouble with your password, please Torts A (Chapman):
contact QuickLaw directly at (416) 862-7656. Tuesday, September 14, 1999
10:50 a.m. to 12:35 p.m.
New Students:
Torts B (Moran):
QuickLaw's computer-based sign-up program will Thursday, September 16
be available to new undergraduate and graduate 1999, 9:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
students as of September 7th. In order to obtain
your personal password, ask for the sign-in Torts C (Reaume):
password at the circulation desk, it is kept in the Tuesday, September 21, 1999
Computer Lab Sign-In Book. Go down to the 9:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
Computer Lab, connect to QuickLaw and enter
the sign-on password. The system will assign you Torts D (Janisch):
a personal password immediately. QuickLaw will Thursday, September 16, 1999
then send you a contract which you must sign and 10:50 a.m. to 12:35 p.m.
return in order to keep your password active.
Torts E (Chapman):
Quicklaw training sessions Thursday, September 23, 1999
9:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
QuickLaw is Canadas largest legal database
service. It includes reported and unreported Torts F (Reaume):
cases from a variety of Canadian legal publishers. Tuesday, September 21, 1999
10:50 a.m. to 12:35 p.m.
Learning effective QuickLaw search strategies
will save you time as well as ensure that you Constitutional A (Borrows):
receive the best results possible for your search. Tuesday, September 14, 1999
QuickLaw training will be available for first year 9:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
students, in the computer lab, on the following
dates: Constitutional B (Choudhry):
Wednesday, September 22, 1999
All sessions take place in the computer lab on the 12:15 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
first floor (basement) of the Law Library:
Constitutional C (Schneiderman):
Criminal A (Brudner): Thursday, September 16, 1999
Monday, September 13, 1999, 12:35 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
9:00 to 10:45 a.m.
Constitutional D (L. Weinrib):
Criminal B: (Dickens): Tuesday, September 14, 1999
Monday, September 13, 1999 12:35 to 2:00 p.m.
10:50 a.m. to 12:35 p.m.
CD-ROM Training
Criminal C: (Shaffer):
Wednesday, September 15, 1999 Dates for CD-ROM training will be
10:50 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. announced later, please check Headnotes and
future issues of LawLink for details.
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Bora Laskin Law Library
Rules of Conduct
The Laskin Library houses the University’s law collection. It is open to students,
faculty and staff of the University and, indeed, to anyone who needs to consult legal
materials for serious study or research.
In order to create an atmosphere conducive to serious work, all users of the Library
must adhere to the following rules of conduct. These rules are aimed at ensuring that
users of the Library show consideration for each other and for the physical facilities.
1. Conversation and noise must be kept to an absolute minimum. Groups may not
hold discussions in the Library. Please use Cell Phones outside the library.
At the Circulation Desk, U of T law students may reserve a room for the
purpose of discussion or group study. Other users must take conversations
outside the Library.
2. Because the use of laptops may be distracting to others, those who use them are
encouraged to work in specially designated areas.
3. Eating, drinking and smoking are not permitted within the Library.
4. Users must show respect for library property including furniture, equipment
and books.
5. Because facilities are limited, the computer laboratory is reserved for use by U
of T law students only.
Rules specifically relating to the lab are posted within the room.
6. Patrons of the Library must leave promptly at closing time, when the fire alarm
sounds and during emergencies when requested to vacate by staff.
Report serious and persistent abuses of these rules to the Circulation Desk attendant.
A formal complaint can be made in writing: signed, dated and addressed to the Chief
Librarian.
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