CRIV CONNECTION

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

vendor mergers

  • Vendor Contact Information

    Many of you are aware of the amazingly helpful CRIV Tools available under the Advocacy > Vendor Relations section of AALL’s website. Jacob Nunnally and I found one of those tools to be unfortunately quite outdated while we went through the CRIV webpages for updates this past year: Vendor Contact Information. CRIV’s Vendor Contact Information… Continue reading

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  • SSRN Joins Mendeley and Elsevier

    SSRN has announced that it is joining Mendeley and Elsevier. Here’s the announcement on SSRN. Here’s Elsevier’s blog post about it. Both statements promise that SSRN users should face little disruption on the cost front. They also promise the entanglement will lead to new features (throwing Scopus out as an example of what might occur). Continue reading

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  • Lexis Acquires Lex Machina

    Under the headline, “Lex Machina is Accelerating With LexisNexis,” Lex Machina announced this morning that it had been acquired by the larger corporation. Robert Ambrogi discusses the deal (while it was still an unconfirmed rumor) here. His report of the confirmation of the deal is here. Additional coverage from Bloomberg BNA is here. Text of… Continue reading

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  • Vendor News: Fastcase Acquires LoisLaw

    Fastcase has purchased LoisLaw from WoltersKluwer. Robert Ambrogi broke the news on Law Sites after current Loislaw customers started receive notices of the change. Fastcase has confirmed it, and posted some FAQs on the transition. It looks like Fastcase has expanded it customer base by acquiring the current LoisLaw subscriptions and brand. The legacy LoisLaw… Continue reading

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  • Vendor news: LexisNexis aquires MLex

    Press release: http://www.relx.com/mediacentre/pressreleases/2015/Pages/lexisnexis-announces-agreement-to-acquire-MLex.aspx Commentary from Dewey B and iBrary Guy http://deweybstrategic.blogspot.com/2015/07/lexisnexis-locks-up-another-legal-news.html https://ibraryguy2.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/ex-citing-news-mlex-joins-relx-group-mlex-relx-lexisnexis-libraries/ Continue reading

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