Looking for current continuing professional development materials online? Well, you’re in luck! AccessCLE is a database that hosts LSO CPD program materials from 2004 onwards. This free resource lets you browse for programs and papers by area of law and year, or conduct full-text searches by keyword. This post is meant to map our readers on navigating AccessCLE.
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HeinOnline’s COVID-19 Collection
In response to the pandemic, HeinOnline created “COVID-19: Pandemics Past and Present”, a database containing publications that concern COVID-19 as well as other pandemics. Along with its subcollections dealing with the economic, global, health care, and societal impacts of COVID-19, HeinOnline recently announced that the new subcollection “Vaccinations” has been added to the database, containing publications on the COVID-19 vaccinations. This new subcollection also features publications that explore the history of vaccinations for other diseases. Some subjects of this subcollection include:
Committee Proceedings: What’s What and What’s Online
If you have ever researched legislative intent, there is a good chance you needed to sift through and read committee proceedings. Not every bill that is referred to a committee for review undergoes the same level of analysis (and some bills aren’t referred to a committee at all) but for those that are, committee documents can be sources of very useful information. They help researchers gain a better understanding about a bill’s purpose and the reasoning behind amendments made to the bill as it goes through the legislative process.
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