August 2007

WHAT'S NEW

New additions to Hein Online
Hein OnLine is an ever-expanding, image-based collection of legal materials and law reviews.  It provides access to a growing collection of legal periodicals (over 1,000 titles, in most cases beginning with the first issue of each journal); a library of legal classics (more than 1,000 volumes); full reprints of the English Reports (1220-1865); the Federal Register (1936-current); the Code of Federal Regulations (1938-1983); the U.S. Statutes at Large (1789-2004); U.S. Reports (1754-2005) and U.S. Reports Slip Opinions (2002-current); an extensive Treaties and Agreements Library; a U.S. Federal Legislative History Library; and much more.  All material is in image-based PDF format and is full-text searchable.  As of April 2007, nearly 27 million pages were available in the HeinOnline database. 

JSTOR
New on JSTOR (full-text imaged articles from more than 600 journals (as of April 2007) in the arts and sciences, political science, statistics, economics and philosophy).  The latest compilations of titles available to NYLS users can be found here:
Arts & Sciences I
Arts & Sciences II
Business

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LATEST ACQUISITIONS

February 15, 2008
January 31, 2008

WEBSITES OF THE MONTH

The Library of Congress -- Chronicling America
The Library of Congress has launched a historic newspaper project, Chronicling America. This site allows you to search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

World Bank Online Law Library
The Doing Business Law Library describes itself as the largest free online collection of business laws and regulations. Links are to official government sources wherever possible. Translations are not official unless indicated otherwise. The collection is updated regularly but the Library does not guarantee that laws are the most recent version.

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