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New Book Lists

These are PDF versions of the New Aquisitions Lists for the Legal Research Center. To request any materials on these lists, please use the form on the last page of each document.

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Electronic Resource Updates

10/1/09 - New CALI lessons for Fall 2009

CALI has recently been updated with several new lessons:

CALI offers interactive, computer-based lessons as a supplemental aid to your studies, designed by top law professors and librarians. Browse their complete list of lessons to find out more. If you need a registration code for CALI, please e-mail kab66@drexel.edu or visit the Legal Research Center Circulation Desk.

8/15/09 - CCH Databases Merge Into CCH IntelliConnect

CCH has combined their 3 databases - Business & Finance, Health & Human Resources, and Tax Research - into their new CCH IntelliConnect platform. This new platform allows for searching across databases, better customization, and quicker navigation. When you login for the first time, you will be required to create a username and password.

NOTE: CCH currently recommends using Internet Explorer to view IntelliConnect, as other browsers can cause display issues.

6/11/09 - Cross-library searching now available for HeinOnline journals.

When searching in the Law Journal Library in HeinOnline, you will now see search results from journal titles found in the Kluwer Law International Journal Library, Part I: International Yearbooks and Periodicals of the Foreign and International Law Resources Database, and in ALI-ABA Publications which are found in Part III of the American Law Institute Collection. This cross-library searching will further enhance the searching experience in HeinOnline by retrieving and displaying results across all relevant journals and periodicals from these collections.

3/18/09 - New CALI lessons for Spring 2009

CALI has recently been updated with several new lessons:

Agreements Lacking Consideration: Past Consideration and Moral Obligation (Contracts)
Constitutional Aspects of Environmental Law: Federal Preemption (Environmental Law)
Exceptions to the Ethical Duty of Confidentiality Designed to Protect Third Persons from Harm (Professional Responsibility)
Introduction to the California Style Manual (Legal Research)
Louisiana Primary Legal Resources (Legal Research)
Marbury v. Madison (Constitutional Law)
Miranda II: Assertion of the Rights, Exceptions, and Other Limits (Criminal Procedure)
Private International Law Research (Legal Research)
Right to Trial by Jury - Criminal Prosecution, Size, and Unanimity (Criminal Procedure)

12/1/08 - LIVEDGAR is now on Westlaw Business

The LIVEDGAR database will now be available through Westlaw Business. The updated database will contain the same LIVEDGAR data, but will allow for better searching and integration with Westlaw resources. Please note that access is available from Legal Research Center and Law School PCs only.

10/6/08 - The complete Congressional Record now available through HeinOnline

HeinOnline has completed digitizing the complete backfile of the Congressional Record, the complete printed chronicle of debates, proceedings and speeches of the United States Congress. Their coverage of the Congressional Record now covers 1873 to the present, along with earlier congressional debates cataloged in the Annals of Congress (1789-1824), Register of Debates (1824-1837) and Congressional Globe (1833-1873).

10/2/08 - New CALI lessons for September

CALI has recently been updated with several new lessons:

Accomplice Liability - Definitional Issues (Criminal Law)
Accomplice Liability - Mens Rea (Criminal Law)
Administrative Law Judges (Administrative Law)
Executive Privilege - Presidential Privilege (Administrative Law)
FIFRA Basics (Environmental Law)
Identifications in Criminal Cases: Law and Practice (Criminal Procedure)
Omissions (Criminal Law)