Latest Links – British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII)

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British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII)
http://www.bailii.org/

This site claims to provide access to the “most comprehensive free and up-to -date collection of British and Irish primary legal materials on the internet. BAILII includes seventeen databases covering five jurisdictions. It contains 100,000 searchable documents. BAILLI is a joint effort of the Australasian Legal Information Institute and organizations in the UK and Ireland. Full-text case law and legislation is available for England and Wales; Ireland; Northern Ireland; Scotland; and the United Kingdom.

Finding International Statistics Online
http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/MCK/GUIDES/instat.html

This site maintained by Geraldine Foudy, Reference Instruction Librarian for the Government & Politics and Public Affairs at the University of Maryland Libraries at College Park. It is arranged in broad subject categories: Comprehensive Sources of International Statistics; Economic & Development Statistics; Environmental, Science, Agricultural, & Technology Statistics; Political, Military, & Defense Statistics; Population Statistics; Social, Educational, & Health Statistics; Country/Region Specific Sources; and Search Engines.

Publisher’s Catalogue Homepage
http://www.lights.com/publisher/

Publisher’s Catalogue Homepage has links to over six thousand publisher homepages. You can browse the index to locate a publisher of titles in your subject area or locate a publisher’s homepage via the site’s search engine.

Sources of International Statistics
http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/MCK/STATS.html

Sources of International Statistics is organized by source of data: U.S. Government, Foreign Governments, United Nations, IGO’s, NGO’s, Academic, and Search Engines. Links to each of the websites are provided. This site maintained by Geraldine Foudy, Reference Instruction Librarian for the Government & Politics and Public Affairs at the University of Maryland Libraries at College Park.

xrefer
http://www.xrefer.com/

xrefer’s search engine cross references entries within a source to related topics in other sources. Sixteen titles from Oxford University Press, Macimillan, Penguin Books, and Bloomsbury Publishing are currently covered. Thesauri, dictionaries of various types, two encyclopedias and a ‘Who’s Who’ are included in the current coverage. A keyword search yields a brief description and the source. You just click to display a full description.

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