UK legal information on the internet

2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 693-696
Author(s):  
Sarah Carter
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Legal Information

THE STATE OF OPEN ACCESS ADOPTION IN LEGAL SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION: AN ANALYSIS OF SELECTED OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES

Mousaion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Solomon Bopape
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Open Access Resources ◽  
The Right

The study of law focuses, among other aspects, on important issues relating to equality, fairness and justice in as far as free access to information and knowledgeis concerned. The launching of the Open Access to Law Movement in 1992, the promulgation of the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarshipin 2009, and the formation of national and regional Legal Information Institutes (LIIs) should serve as an indication of how well the legal world is committed to freely publishing and distributing legal information and knowledge through the Internet to legal practitioners, legal scholars and the public at large aroundthe world. In order to establish the amount of legal scholarly content which is accessible through open access publishing innovations and initiatives, this studyanalysed the contents of websites for selected open access resources on the Internet internationally and in South Africa. The results of the study showed that there has been a steady developing trend towards the adoption of open access for legal scholarly literature internationally, while in South Africa legal scholarly literature is under the control of commercial publishers. This should be an issue for the legal scholarship which, among its focus, is to impart knowledge about the right of access to information and knowledge.

scholarly journals Applying the Access Principle in Law: The Responsibilities of the Legal Scholar*

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Danner
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Legal Scholar ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Legal Scholarship ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Improve Access

This article discusses the responsibilities of legal scholars to make their published works openly accessible through the Internet, within the context of efforts to increase free and open access to legal information, and to improve access to scholarly literature in other disciplines. The article also considers the roles and responsibilities of the institutions that support the creation and communication of legal scholarship for improving access to legal information.

Free Legal Databases at IALS Library

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-55
Author(s):  
Laura Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Legal Databases

Laura Griffiths provides information about the portals or gateways of qualitatively evaluated links to legal information on the internet, including FLAG, INTUTE: Law and eagle-I, and repositories of information produced by IALS and its partners such as FLARE and the Current Legal Research Topics database.

Library Management Systems in Legal Libraries

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 196-198
Author(s):  
Emma Duffield
Keyword(s):  
Management Systems ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Library Management ◽  
Library Automation ◽  
Web Resources ◽  
Library Management System ◽  
Library Catalogue ◽  
Selective Dissemination Of Information

Legal libraries, by their very nature, have highly specialised requirements when it comes to library automation. A traditional library management system, which will simply catalogue books and provide the means to issue them to borrowers for a defined period, will not provide the flexibility required by a modern legal information centre. Serials management, direct links to web resources and the selective dissemination of information are of far more importance to a legal library than whether a loan is overdue. Access to information is crucial – the library catalogue needs to be available to researchers wherever they are, whether sitting at their desks or accessing the data via the internet.

Internet for Legal Information

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 310-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Germain ◽  
Pat Court ◽  
Jean Wenger ◽  
Scott Childs
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
International Law ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Needed Information

This empirical study starts from the newest medium, the internet, and explains briefly what researchers can expect to find there in terms of legal information, and how to find the needed information. It focuses on U.S. legal information, but also touches on foreign and international law. It includes comparisons with other legal research platforms and raises a few issues.

Law Via the Internet 2015 Conference

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenda Browne
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
General Public ◽  
The Internet ◽  
User Needs ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Document Collections ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
New Information

AbstractFree access to public legal information for the general public and professionals promotes justice and the rule of law. Presenters at the 2015 Law via the Internet conference discussed projects using the power of technology combined with expert human input to make information accessible, and to extract new information from large document collections. Although the scale is different, there are similarities in the ways in which indexers and informaticians explore meaning, develop standards and consider user needs to make information widely accessible. Glenda Browne reports on the conference.*

keeping FE/HE “Legal, Honest and Truthful”

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Weedon
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Information Service ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Relative Ease ◽  
Teaching And Learning Research ◽  
Learning Research ◽  
Ease Of Access ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Broad Outline

AbstractThis article aims to give a broad outline of what the JISC Legal Information Service is and why it was set up. In particular it deals with the challenges of the Internet and the new legislation that attempts to regulate it or stimulate its use. The Internet is fast becoming embedded in the FE/HE sector, in teaching and learning, research and administration–ignore it at your peril some might say. Yet there are risks to this, in some cases, enthusiastic rush to embrace all things that utilise the WWW. The relative ease of access, extraction and dissemination on ‘the net’ has tempted some to overlook the legalities. This article summarises briefly the main areas of law under consideration and the potential costs of infringement. It explains that FE/HE is subject to this legislation sometimes in specific ways. It concludes by stressing the need for feedback from the sector including BIALL members in order that the service can improve.

scholarly journals Development and Maintenance of the Ethiopian Legal Information Website

Afrika Focus ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Getaneh Agegn Alemu
Keyword(s):  
Action Plan ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Procedure Code ◽  
Mekelle University ◽  
Western Law ◽  
The University ◽  
Family Code

Information and Communication Technology in general and the internet in particular have been creating unprecedented opportunities in facilitating and streamlining access to information. Websites have become a common way of publishing legal information for the public in many countries. In Ethiopia, however, the availability of legal websites has been very limited or non-existent. Except for the constitution, no other basic Ethiopian law has ever been published online. To benefit from the tremendous potentials of the internet, a project was initiated to develop an Ethiopian Legal Information Web Site.Based on users' requirements obtained from questionnaire analysis, and current paradigms and implications, the Ethiopian Legal Information Website was designed, developed, implemented and maintained. The website is an online database of Ethiopian basic laws developed by Mekelle University, Ethiopia, in cooperation with the Non-Western Law Department of Ghent University, Belgium.Basic laws included on the site at present are the Ethiopian Constitution, Civil Code, Criminal Code, Civil Procedure Code, Criminal Procedure Code, Commercial Code and Family Code. The laws can be viewed and used in full text html, whereas some of the laws including the 2004 Criminal Code, Family Code, FDKE Constitution and the Tigray Regional State Constitution are available in pdf Laws can be searched by keywords using the site search engine. Comments and suggestions from experts and Ethiopian laws users have been collected, hence modifications, improvements and additions have been made to the website. The Ethiopian Legal Information Website was first hosted on the University of Ghent internet server and currently in the Mekelle University server at http://mail.mu.edu. et/~ethiopialaws/.1 The Ethiopian Legal Information Website has been found to be a useful web portal to access and use the basic Ethiopian laws. The University of Ghent, ILO, the Library of Congress, AUSTLII, WASHLAW, WIKIPEDIA and other major legal web portals make citations in reference to the site. While the website currently contains only the basic laws of the federal government, an action plan is prepared to include regional laws of Ethiopia. Other legal information including amendments to the laws, decisions and legal news will also be included on the site, hence a comprehensive Ethiopian Legal Web Portal will be developed and maintained. Key Words: Legal Information, Legal Information Website, Digital Divide 

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