New information about vendor-neutral citations in Canada can be monitored through the following blogs:
http://legalinformatics.wordpress.com/ This is maintained by Robert Richards, a law librarian in Philadelphia. He is also the editor in chief of VoxPopuLII, published by the Legal Information Institute of Cornell University Law School.
http://blog.law.cornell.edu/voxpop/2010/03/01/environmentally-friendly-citations/ Ivan Mokanov, Deputy Director of LexUM, begins a very interesting and timely blog about vendor-neutral citations with this paragraph, "Today in Canada, nearly three quarters of citations to recent case law use the neutral citation – an industry-independent, open identifier assigned by courts to their decisions. When we call something a “game-changer” most people assume that it was invented by Apple. Yet even though the neutral citation was not, it definitely is a game-changer in the legal publishing business. Here are some thoughts about why."
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