Update 03 August 2012

IN TODAY'S POST INFORMATION ON THE FOLLOWING WILL BE COMMUNICATED:

• Databases - 
• Sabinet launched new training videos
• New on HeinOnline
• Notable Internet Links -
• New Law Library of Congress Global Legal Research Center Reports
• European Library - new online service launched for researchers
• Interesting blog postings -
• Class actions seem to be a hot comparative legal research topic
• New @ UJ Library - News on prescribed book orders for 2013
• UJ Law Library - remember our law library subject portal

 

DATABASES 

·         Sabinet  newly launched Training Videos

                          http://0-www.sabinet.co.za.ujlink.uj.ac.za/?page=training-video-s/

Also available on http://www.youtube.com/user/SabinetVideos?feature=mhee

Videos deal with the following topics: Access Login using User ID and Password (7Mb) How to log on to Sabinet Legal with a user ID and Password. Product Navigation Selecting one product at a time (5.5Mb) How to choose one product to search in, for example – choose to search only in the NetLaw product. Selecting multiple products at a time (2.8Mb) How to choose multiple products to search in, for example, search in the NetLaw and Bill Tracker products simultaneously. Finding Answers: Searching and Results Government Gazettes Searching: Number, Title and Keywords (12.5Mb) How to search in the Government Gazettes product using a gazette number, words from the title of a  gazette or notice, or keywords that appear anywhere in a gazette. Government Gazettes Searching: Pre Defined Searches (10Mb) How to search in the government gazettes product by using the pre-defined or menu based searches. These searches require minimum search strategy. NetLaw Searching: Act Number and Act Title (4Mb) How to search in NetLaw by using an Act number or words from the title of the Act. NetLaw Searching: Predefined Searches (3.5Mb) How to search in NetLaw by using the pre-defined or menu based searches. These are searches made  easy and they require the minimum search strategy. NetLaw Searching: Accross the Act and its Regulations (5.7Mb) How to search in NetLaw and find only results where the words you have typed  in appear in both the Act and its regulations. Results: Action List and Email (12Mb) How to interpret the result screen and mark items in preparation to save or e-mail them. This also shows you how to e-mail results out of the system. Results: NetLaw (12Mb) How to open an Act from the NetLaw product. This will show you how to find the full text of the Act and its regulations. Your personal space on the system: MySabinet Registration (6Mb) This shows you how to register a “MySabinet Account”. This account provides you with a personal space on the system. In this personal space you can save your searches, create lists (folders) and many more features. New on HeinOnline Below is a snapshot of the July Content Release: 9 new journals added and 233 journals updated in the Law Journal Library. Notable new journals include: Trusts & Estates, Regulation (Cato Institute), Cato Law Journal, Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal, Journal of Law & Social Deviance, European Tax Studies, DePaul Journal of Women, Gender, and the Law New bar journal, Iowa Lawyer, now available in the Bar Journals Library, along with 25 bar journals updated Nearly 300 U.S. Congressional Hearings added to U.S. Congressional Documents Collection Spinelli Law Library Reference Shelf now includes Legal Education Section and Official Guide to ABA Approved Law Schools, along with more than a dozen new titles Additional state taken back to inception in State Attorney General Reports & Opinions 2 new legislative histories added to U.S. Federal Legislative History Library History of Remedies sub collection added including Cases on Remedies by John Wilson to Legal Classics 11 new titles added to American Indian Law Collection 39 new titles added to World Consitutions Illustrated 10 new titles added to World Trials 38 new titles added to Congress and the Courts Click here for a detailed list of new titles and content updates. NOTABLE INTERNET LINKS New Law Library of Congress Global Legal Research Center Reports Online Privacy Laws (July 2012) http://www.loc.gov/law/help/online-privacy-law.php “These reports describe the data protection laws of the European Union (Part I) and of selected foreign countries (Part II). They describe the constitutional foundations of data privacy and the statutory requirements that must be met in order for data to be collected, used, and transferred to third parties. They also explain the concepts of informed consent, transparency and data minimization, and describe the rights and remedies of data subjects, particularly the rights of access, rectification, and erasure.” European Union Part One (PDF, 404KB)   31pp. Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom Part Two (PDF, 1.56MB) 220pp. European Library - new online service launched for researchers Read more at: http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/services INTERESTING BLOG POSTINGS On class actions Posting by Lyonette Louis-Jacques: “Class actions seem to be a hot comparative legal research topic”: http://www.slaw.ca/2012/07/17/the-rise-and-fall-of-class-actions-comparative-law-resources/ This posting explains the terminology and refers the reader to: Primary Sources, Organisations & Networks, Databases & eBooks, Books Articles & Documents, Journals, and Blogs. A selected bibliography is also supplied. NEW @ UJ LIBRARY News on prescribed book orders for 2013 The UJ Copyright Officer, Thapelo Mashihi requests that a new prescribed book ordering template must  be used by departments when ordering prescribed books for the first semester 2013. Further information regarding this will be communicated to you by your HOD’s and Lizette van Zyl. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR PRESCRIBED BOOK ORDERS IS FRIDAY AUGUST 21 UJ LAW LIBRARY Remember to make use of our law library subject portal as an easy starting point to law library information and database research.