CRIV CONNECTION

The official PUBLICATION for the AALL Committee on Relations with Information Vendors

  • Bloomberg Law Semiannual Update

    Author: Deanna Barmakian, Research Librarian, Harvard Law School Library Madeline Cohen, library relations director at Bloomberg Law met with CRIV on May 5, to update AALL membership on platform developments and content enhancements. The conversation centered on the new Legal Profiler Center, new In Focus collections, and a discussion about the generative AI feature roll… Continue reading

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  • Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Ending Commercial Products

    Author: Rebecca Mattson, Director of Operations and Scholarship, Penn State Dickinson Law Montague Law Library The Social Science Research Network (SSRN), a popular location for pre-prints and works in progress, is ending commercial subscriptions at the end of 2026 in order to strengthen its free preprint model. What This Means for You Institutional research paper… Continue reading

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  • Usage Statistics in Decision-Making and Vendor Conversations

    Author: Ashley Newton, Acquisitions and Metadata Law Librarian, University of California, Irvine. As library budgets continue to shrink, librarians are increasingly reevaluating spending and bolstering justifications for maintaining certain subscriptions. Usage statistics provide a valuable way to assess subscriptions while clearly demonstrating their value to both stakeholders and vendors. If you are not already receiving… Continue reading

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  • Behind the Exhibit Hall Table with Steve Roses from Hein

    Author: Deanna Barmakian, Research Librarian, Harvard Law School Library CRIV asked Steve Roses from W.S. Hein & Co. to share some insight into the conference experience from a vendor’s point of view. GETTING TO KNOW YOU Starting off easy, what is your title, and how many years have you been with Hein? I’m director of… Continue reading

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  • New: Jus AI Single-User License Option for Academic Libraries

    Author: Jean Davis, Associate Librarian for International Law, Brooklyn Law School Library Jus Mundi is a searchable collection of 120,000+ international arbitral awards, court decisions, and treaties. Jus Mundi also developed AI assistant Jus AI to support arbitration research and drafting. Jus Mundi now offers academic libraries the option to license individual Jus AI accounts.… Continue reading

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