The UBC Library has a new subscription to Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1918-1981 from WilsonWeb.

This index is a bibliographic database that cumulates citations from print editions of Index to Legal Periodicals published between 1918-1981.

Periodical coverage includes law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and government publications. Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1918-1981 covers all areas of jurisprudence, including court decisions, legislation, and original scholarship.

You can also access this resource by going to the UBC Library homepage (www.library.ubc.ca) and clicking on the “Indexes and Databases” link and/or you could bookmark it for later use. Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1918-1981 is included in the Commercial Databases link at the UBC Law Library Website at http://www.library.ubc.ca/law and the Subject Resources for Law as well.

The UBC Library has new subscriptions to 3 online resources from Thompson Gale.

Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926:
http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=969
Provides digital images for all pages of 22,000 American and British legal treatises published between 1800 through 1926. Using full-text searching, researchers can access over 10 million pages from casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more. Searches may also be limited to a few legal topics, ranging from Accounting to Unincorporated Associations.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online:
http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=968
Provides access to the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages, allows access to critical information in the fields of law, history, literature, religion, fine arts, science and more.

Times Digital Archive:
http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=967
The complete digital edition of The Times (London) can be searched (using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting) to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

You can also access these resources by going to the UBC Library homepage (www.library.ubc.ca) and clicking on the “Indexes and Databases” link and/or you could bookmark them for later use. Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926
will be included in the Commercial Databases link at the UBC Law Library Website at http://www.library.ubc.ca/law/ as well.

LexisNexis has just launched a new law school users section on the LexisNexis Canada web site. This new section, available in English and French via the top navigation banner at http://www.lexisnexis.ca/lawschools is designed specifically for law school students as well as faculty members and its librarians.

The new web includes the following features:

• Descriptions of online services focusing on the benefits to law school users and legal researchers

• A login button for Quicklaw, lexis.com, and nexis.com

• Information on student training program and customer service, with easy access to Customer Service contact information and descriptions of the types of training sessions

• A “My School” section that lets students view schedules for upcoming training sessions at their schools, and that includes links to law schools and profiles of LexisNexis Canada Customer Service Representatives providing training (in progress)

• A Resource Centre for students to obtain an academic user password, download user materials, learn about the Quicklaw National Articling Database as a source for finding articling and summer positions, and link to information about Butterworths titles relevant to students

• Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) from students

• A training session evaluation form

• Information about the QuickFIND desktop productivity tool (free for law school users) as a fast way for students to access case law, and as a means for professors to enhance electronic casebooks

• Information specific to first-year, second-year, and third-year students (in progress)

• Links to Supreme Court of Canada cases