CRIV CONNECTION

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

Vendor Relations

  • CRIV/Wolters Kluwer Semiannual Update

    Author: Jean Davis, Associate Librarian for International Law at Brooklyn Law School Library Introduction The CRIV semiannual call with Wolters Kluwer (WK) occurred on May 12, 2026. The call included updates on: Kluwer Law International titles now available through certain VitalLaw subscriptions; VitalLaw’s expanded Academic Initiative; and VitalLaw Expert AI’s new features. It also included WK’s responses to CRIV’s product accessibility questions. This report concludes with recommended sources for further reading. Participants Jean Davis (CRIV member and liaison… Continue reading

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  • A Look at the EU’s Digital Markets Act

    Author: Yasmin Morais, Foreign, Comparative & International Collection Development Librarian. Harvard Law School Library This post provides an overview of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The DMA entered into force on November 1, 2022, (see publication in the Official Journal of the European Union) with the aim of ensuring fairness in the digital sector.… Continue reading

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  • Time-Saving Collection Development Tip: Review BLS Library’s Digital Book Displays

    Author: The team at Brooklyn Law School Library Each month, BLS librarians meet with Associate Dean Dominique Fowler and Brooklyn Law School (BLS) Communications staff to learn about upcoming cultural heritage observances and other key BLS events. We now have a year’s worth of related BLS Library Digital Book Displays that you can review. These… Continue reading

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  • 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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