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SubscribeUniversity of North Carolina Expands its Law Library to Include World's Most Comprehensive Collection of Anglo-American Legal Treatises
Online Resource Includes Rare, Inaccessible Information for a New Generation of Researchers
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Oct. 4, 2006 – The Kathrine R. Everett Law Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently acquired The Making of Modern Law, the world's most comprehensive full-text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises. The Making of Modern Law is created by Thomson Gale, part of the Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
Sourced from the world's foremost law libraries and built entirely from primary documents, The Making of Modern Law joins the popular Eighteenth Century Collections Online as part of the Gale Digital Collections. By combining ownership with unfettered access, libraries now have the unique opportunity to build their archives and present rare and valuable works to their communities.
"The Making of Modern Law provides electronic access to a vast collection of important legal treatises spanning the 19th century and on into the 20th century, offering searching across this collection while protecting the original image in scanned format," said Anne Klinefelter, Interim Director & Associate Director of the University of North Carolina Law Library. "This form of access supports types of research and analysis that would be, at best, extremely tedious in the print or microform environment."
Featuring a fully searchable database of approximately 10 million pages and more than 21,000 works, The Making of Modern Law provides researchers with an interdisciplinary approach to the study of legal history and allows a vast segment of the literature of law to be quickly searched via keyword access by faculty members and students.
Works include casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more. The collection is of interest to scholars and researchers of domestic and international law, legal history, business and economics, politics and government, national defense, criminology, religion, education, labor and social welfare, and military justice.
For more information, contact Vanessa Birch at 248-699-8193 or vanessa.birch@cengage.com.
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The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2005 revenues of $8.70 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate e-learning and assessment, scientific research and healthcare. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson has approximately 40,000 employees and provides services in approximately 130 countries. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC). Thomson Gale™ ( http://www.gale.com/) serves the world's information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. It is best known for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of information needs – from homework help to health questions to business profiles – in a variety of formats – books and eBooks, databases and microfilm.
