"Legal publishers" refers to companies or organizations that produce and distribute books, journals, or other materials related to the field of law. These publishers make legal information easily accessible to lawyers, law students, and other individuals who need legal resources to understand and apply the law.
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In the absence or organic growth and innovation, they are seen as essential both for survival and success for the
major legal publishers in today's market conditions.
Here is a an informal survey
of legal publisher websites, and what they offer for new publication current awareness.
The use of the term «historical» is used
by legal publishers with limited access to the early case reports.
There is nothing radical about a
leading legal publisher jumping into the fierce competition for current awareness market share.
That changed
when legal publishers realized that the legal profession was happy to see new editions published every year.
I can see that big
legal publishers don't regard selling content to be the road to the future, but I'm not seeing much confidence for sale either.
Here one finds that
legal publishers use vague expressions to such as «current» or «comprehensive» to describe the contents of a database.
That's three years in which
legal publishers need to shift their internal processes to accommodate new delivery, pricing and updating mechanisms for their content.
Most legal publishers have developed their processes and their systems internally and they consider related knowledge as commercial secrets.
Listening to law librarians and developing an effective strategy to respond to their concerns is essential
if legal publishers are to limit the effects of the cancellation of loose - leaf and online services.
Two major
legal publishers announced initiatives this week to help laid - off lawyers keep their heads above water and make the transition to new jobs.
I've read a lot lately about how law firms are poised to essentially
become legal publishers, and it's certainly true that the potential is there.
I particularly enjoyed his comments on the mission statements of the three
multinational legal publishers and how the big three are embarrassed to be seen as legal or tax publishers.
Over the past century or two, a practice evolved whereby
legal publishers launched new editions of established works under the name of the original author long after that person passed from the scene.
The federal government funds a book publishing program that provides grants to Canadian print publishers,
including legal publishers, based on revenues derived from books already published.
Right now print is often better as a delivery method and for economic reasons, but that may be
because legal publishers have not yet found a good way to represent that information online.
Another major
legal publishers lists a large number of law reports in its databases, instead of saying that the databases are comprehensive from a certain date.
Not to knock them —
legal publishers filled an essential niche and continue to provide valuable and necessary products.
But in what level of fantasy can we imagine a commercial
legal publisher ever using such a model, for any constituency?
This may change with time, as e-books with their own DOI, etc, become more widespread even
amongst legal publishers, but it will not be soon.
The emergence of real competition in the market for legal information online, combined with the recent economic downturn, has been a major challenge for
legal publishers everywhere.
We hope... to discuss pricing practices
of legal publishers and their effects on law libraries and legal researchers.
None of the traditional
Canadian legal publishers, seemed able or willing to commit the resources necessary to compete on the scale that was required.
Perhaps the most ubiquitous statement made, certainly not only
by legal publishers but by them in any case, is the familiar «our people are our most important asset».
It offers a comprehensive library of resources and materials from a
leading legal publisher, all wrapped in an intuitive search and display environment, and delivered for a reasonable and predictable monthly price.
As with the Canadian flag debate of years past, the matter will quickly resolve itself as periods are dropped generally by
other legal publishers and by the legal profession.
Canadian
commercial legal publishers became active and effective players in the gathering and delivery of Canadian legal information in digital formats.
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