News for Law Librarians From Wol

News for
Law Librarians
From Wolters Kluwer Law & Business

Volume 5, Number 9, September 2009

NEW PRODUCTS

CCH Products Liability Integrated Library

The CCH Products Liability Integrated Library consists of two components—Compliance and Litigation. Coverage includes consumer products, regulation, and litigation including: ANSI guidelines, OSHA standards and the NHSTA. Additional optional resources are available covering food, drug, cosmetic and medical devices.

The Library features:

CCH Products Liability Reporter, Consumer Product Safety Guide and The Law of Products Liability treatise
Aspen Publishers treatises include Managing for Products Liability Avoidance; Products Liability Case Digest; Preparation of a Products Liability Case; Products Liability Desk Reference; Tort Law Desk Reference and Proving and Defending Damage Claims
Products liability safety news and current awareness—updated daily
50-state Smart Chart for multi-jurisdictional research covering 7 key topics
Links from analysis to full text of products liability case law decisions

For more details, contact your Account Representative or go to: http://onlinestore.cch.com

COMING SOON

Government Contracts Update free e-mail newsletter—coming October 2009

This monthly e-mail newsletter from the editors of CCH’s government contracts publications offers summaries of significant developments of the previous month. There will be coverage of hot topics, legal news, regulatory news and major contract awards. To sign up for the newsletter now, go to: http://hr.cch.com/getnews/ and check Government Contracts.

FEATURED PRODUCT OF THE MONTH

Global Climate Change Law Guide

The Global Climate Change Law Guide is an online service that gives the legal requirements and obligations for emissions trading schemes and other interrelated laws of key regions and countries from around the world.

The Guide is an essential tool for anyone involved in the implementation and management of emissions trading and related programs, and meeting legal and reporting obligations. Users select a country or region to quickly access the local carbon trading and greenhouse gas laws and regulations and their accounting implications.

Written by Climate Change law experts at Baker & McKenzie, the Guide covers these regions:

Europe—United Kingdom, the European Union

North America—United States, Canada

Latin America—Brazil, Mexico

Asia Pacific—Australia, China, Japan

Coming late 2009: India, Indonesia, Thailand and Russia

SPECIAL REPORTS

Health Care Reform Update Briefing

Both Congress and the White House have made health care reform a top priority in 2009. To help keep you on track as legislation works its way though Congress, CCH has published a special report summarizing various provisions being contemplated as part of health care reform. This report contains significant updates on health care reform with a particular focus on Congressional and White House legislative efforts on provisions of interest to employers and Medicare-related changes.

Highlights include:

Mandatory individual coverage
Greater employer responsibility with assistance for small businesses
Guaranteed issue and renewability requirements
Health insurance exchange through which individuals and employers can purchase insurance

For a pdf of the report, click here: http://health.cch.com

FROM THE TRAINING DEPT.

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– To view a calendar of all currently scheduled telephone trainings, visit http://business.cch.com/legalprotraining

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Training tip for IntelliConnect:

How can I increase the number of viewable items on each search results page?

Scroll to bottom of a search results page and change the setting for number of results per page: 10 [default], 25, 50, or 100. This new setting will stay in place for all subsequent searches until you change it.

Training tip for Loislaw:

What Boolean connectors and wild cards are utilized for Loislaw word searching?

Loislaw uses a simple, effective connector system that is a little different than other systems.

Loislaw utilizes four connectors: AND, NEAR, OR, NOT and a few special characters:

dog AND cat = both 'dog' and 'cat' must be found in the document
dog NEAR cat = 'dog' and 'cat' must be no more than 20 words apart (default). You can specify a different proximity by tacking on a number. For example, dog NEAR5 cat will find all documents with the term 'dog' no more then 5 words apart from the term 'cat'.
dog OR cat = one or the other term (or both) must be found in the document
dog NOT cat = 'dog' must be found while the term 'cat' does not occur in same document.
* (asterisk) = truncator. For example, child* = childless, childish, childbearing, children, etc.
? (question mark) = replaces a single character. For example, s?nk = sink, sank or sunk.
~ (tilde) = Thesaurus. Activated by placing ~ (the tilde symbol, top left of your keyboard) in front of a term. For example, ~deal will also search for arrangement, contract, and obligation.

For additional information, click the “Online Help” link at the bottom right of any Loislaw display to open additional instructional material.

Updates on the CCH Internet Research NetWork

The following publications from Aspen Publishers have been updated and are available on the CCH Internet Research NetWork. If you have hyperlinks to any of these publications using Link Express or Favorites, you must create new links to the updated versions. Quick links for each updated publication are provided.

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