Legal Research – Page 4 – Know How, the blog of the Great Library

Finding Ontario Orders in Council

Last year, we shared a blog post highlighting the sources and tools for finding current and historical federal orders in council – but what about Ontario? This blog post, together with a previous post – Finding Ontario OICs– will provide a checklist for where to look when searching for Ontario Orders in Council. A task that often leaves researchers empty-handed.

The Future (of Legal Citation in Canada) is Now

If you’re a member of, or work anywhere adjacent to, the Canadian legal information community, you’ll have heard by now that there is a new citation guide on the scene: the Canadian Open Access Legal (COAL) Citation Guide. Published in early June 2024, the COAL Citation Guide represents 2 years’ worth of energy and effort by a collective of law librarians and legal professionals across the country, and encompasses input from students, educators, and practitioners throughout the field of Canadian law. Read on if you, like me, might benefit from more context about how and why to use the COAL Guide in your legal research and writing.

Rangefindr Pilot Project

Thanks to the hard work of LiRN (Legal Information Resource Network), and through the Innovation and Equity Access to Legal Information project funded by The Law Foundation of Ontario, licensees across Ontario can now access Rangefindr, onsite and remotely! This is a pilot project that will run from September 1, 2024, to December 31, 2025, and be reviewed in 2026.