What is happening and when?
Irwin Law and vLex have entered into a service agreement for hosting Irwin Law’s products on vLex, and a share purchase agreement, with vLex acquiring a minority shareholding in Irwin Law Inc, marking the start of a promising new partnership for two established legal information providers in Canada.
From October 2021, law firms, law schools and other legal information users worldwide will benefit from exclusive access to the entire Irwin Law E-Library collection on the vLex legal research platform.
These agreements will create new opportunities for growth and innovation in regard to Canadian legal information, and this announcement brings many future opportunities, including access to more legal information products and advanced legal research tools.
What does this mean for me and my research?
On vLex, you will be able to access all the same materials that you had access to on Irwin Law’s E-Library. Additionally, you will have access to indexed information, and be able to search across vLex’s entire database of 120 million documents from over 100 countries. This includes Canadian case law dating back to 1876 and indexed CANLII content. But please note that this will be for search purposes and display of results only, and not any full text. You will only have access to the full text of Irwin Law’s collection.
To learn how to find Irwin Law books and journals on vLex, information on subscription and renewal or training and webinars, read our recent blog article: FAQs: Moving from Irwin Law to vLex
More useful information:
Recent webinar (25 mins): Learn how to access the Irwin Law Collection on vLex
Press release: vLex becomes the exclusive host of the Irwin Law E-Library service, and acquires shareholding in Irwin Law
An overview of vLex’s Canadian Coverage
Irwin Law: What’s changed? was originally published in vLex News and Updates on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.