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The CM Law Library Blog seeks to inform the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law community about key legal education, research, practice, and law library news, with a particular focus on Cuyahoga County and Ohio as well as faculty research interests.

Get the Skinny on the Candidates

Sue Altmeyer, Electronic Services Librarian, sue.altmeyer@law.csuohio.edu | February 13, 2008 - 16:11

Cleveland Marshall's Democratic Law Organization (D-LO) held a very informative presentation today highlighting the similarities and differences between presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. For those who missed it, check out D-LO's powerpoint presentation. At the end of the presentation, links for more information are provided. There are links such as 2decide.com ,an independent source with information on both Democrat and Republican candidates.

Professor S. Candice Hoke spoke concerning how you can make sure your vote counts. One suggestion for absentee ballots was to find out how your signature is registered at the Board of Elections. For example, you may use your initial or spell out your first name. If the signature on your absentee ballot does not match the signature on file with the Board of Elections, your ballot can be rejected.

You may also want to look at Judge4Yourself.com ,which has ratings of the candidates for judicial office running in the 2008 contested Democratic primaries. (All the Republican candidates for judicial office have no opposition) Local bar associations surveyed their members to obtain the ratings.


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Ohio's New "Common Sense Business Regulation Process"

Marie Rehmar, Head of Reference Services, marie.rehmar@law.csuohio.edu | February 13, 2008 - 10:48

Governor Ted Strickland issued a new Executive Order Feb.12th to implement Common Sense Business Regulation in Ohio. The press release 2008-04S and the text of the order 2008-04S list a number of fairly significant new guidelines for state agencies to follow as they review their regulations, and as they draft and prepare to submit any to JCARR. Rules under the regular 5-year review will be examined in view of these standards, with some rules likely to be reviewed sooner.

Creating this "more efficient and effective regulatory environment" should make Ohio a more attractive place in which to do business. The announcement mentioned Governor Strickland's noting that "Regulations for conducting business in Ohio exist to promote health, safety, and economic vitality."

According to the Report in the Gongwer News Service the development is a product of collaborative work of business leaders and the Governor's special representative on regulatory reform, Scott North.

Current rules: Ohio Administrative Code


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Open Access Scholarship at Harvard and Elsewhere

Amy Burchfield, Access & Faculty Services Librarian amy.burchfield@law.csuohio.edu | February 13, 2008 - 09:13

Last night, Harvard University’s Arts and Sciences faculty voted to adopt a policy that requires faculty to submit their research to an open-access repository maintained by the university library. The text of the Harvard policy is posted at the Open Access News blog. News coverage of the move is available here [Chronicle of Higher Education] and here [New York Times].

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has already launched a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature called PubMed Central. The European Research Council has likewise released its Guidelines for Open Access.


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