The University of Alaska Fairbanks library subscribes to many different services, but leave it to the librarians and you’ll get certain results.
HeinOnline is a service that academic institutions subscribe to, “allowing students and researchers to search and access a vast collection of legal materials, including scholarly journals, historical documents, case law, statutes, and government publications, often dating back to the inception of the publications, all in a fully searchable, image-based format; essentially providing a comprehensive legal research platform for academic study and research.”
The University of Alaska Fairbanks library subscribes to HeinOnline. It does not subscribe to the Law Journal Library service of HeinOnline, which is a core service. But it does subscribe to these other databases:
- Civil Rights and Social Justice
- Gun Regulation and Legislation in America
- LGBTQ+ Rights
- Open Society Justice Initiative
- Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture and Law
The Open Society Justice Initiative is a project of the George Soros-founded Open Society Foundations.
There are dozens of other databases at HeinOnline to choose from, including Voting Rights & Election Law, Judges and the Judiciary: Exploring America’s Court System, Military Legal Resources (U.S. Army JAG School), and Water Rights and Resources, to name a few. The choice of librarians to exclude the Law Journal Library in favor of the LGBTQ database and George Soros information illustrates how difficult it will be for the Trump Administration to get rid of all the woke aspects of public education, in spite of his executive orders.
Public institutions invariably morph into religious cults of like-minded individuals focused on preserving their faith. These institutions can’t exist without a solid base of entitlement culture. It is difficult to believe a society can successfully eradicate these entitlements. There is a false sense of authority achieved with the induction of entitlement into the human soul. I believe the process is the path taken to Hell. And look closely at these souls. Anger, bitterness, and covetous define them. Like a spoiled child demanding more and more from its parents. The problem is, I am not your daddy.
Demodrat run cities will ruin this state
I am pretty sure UAA Fairbanks gets Federal Funds. They need to cancel this subscription or only subscribe to the core offerings.
It is time that all Alaskans are treated equally. No more special benefits to any group. How can I help DOGE Alaska?
You can’t. I’ve written to them and lined out specifics but it’s a clique and we’re not in it. Too bad as there’s a lot within the antiquated State budget PROCESS that can be fixed, eliminated or de-funded. Simple “Duh” things that all add up to real money wasted every year. But no response. It’s club apparently.
Oh so happy to see the waste and fraud being brought to light! Hang on to your hats more to come when they look into the FNSB and their idiotic idea of a 5 yr contract with Dominion Voting machines. It’s gonna hit the fan – stand up and speak up America Strong!!
This kind of crap has been going on at UAA since the 90s. I’ve seen it personally. The emphasis on political correctness, as it was called then, was appalling. Study for mid-terms? Nah? March for gay and lesbian rights? Absolutely! It seems to have only become worse. Very little focus on results. I know, because I’ve hired some UAA grads who have had to be trained on work ethics and on simple things like grammar and how to show up on time.
Rollo–note that the article is about UAF, not UAA. Note also that because UAA offers a law degree through a joint program with three universities to offer accelerated programs for students interested pursuing a baccalaureate degree and law degree, the UAA/APU Consortium Library carries a subscription to Law Journal Library, the journal discussed in this article.
The facts that Doge is discovering are:
… It isn’t Guv’ment waste, it’s “CORRUPTION!!!”
… Team-D aren’t incompetent, they’re “THIEVES!!!”
… They aren’t stealing Guv’ment money, they’re stealing our money!
UAF does not have a law school, so there is no reason why the library would carry a journal subscription that would not benefit an existing program. This particular journal is very expensive; the UAF library was forced to drastically cuts its holdings in specialized journals after the Dunleavy-Arduin budget cuts in 2019. But the library can obtain nearly every journal article from any journal through its Interlibrary Loan program at no cost to students or faculty. Requested articles arrive by email usually within 24 hours.
So if you’re not in law school, you have no reason to study the law?
UAF is a laughable brain-washing institution with very little credibility. It is widely known for being lesbian controlled back to the late 1970’s. More recently, it’s reputation is regarded as a far, far-left institution, obsessed with climate change research and federal giveaway money for useless and ridiculous programs. Today, it is more known as the little Native college on the hill that produces transexuals and homicidal maniacs.
Good to know all of this. None of my kids will end up at UAF. Most recent UAF grads I’ve met can’t spell, don’t read books at all, use loads of marijuana, are overweight, and complain about everything. 30 and more years ago, it was a pretty decent college. All of the lesbian activism on campus, the bloated Administration, and the left-wing professors have produced an institution of zombies who cannot think for themselves.
Walk through any building on the campuses and you will see commie slogans plastered on every wall.
Not at all surprising. This is the place where the assembly got their ridiculous climate alarmist plan, which they, as usual, pushed through with virtually zero public input.
I work with the Ooen Society Justice Initiative, part of the Ooen Society Foundations, founded by George Soros. We don’t sell subscriptions. You can subscribe to our occasional email updates and download our publications for free. You can also keep up with our human rights litigation around the world on a wide range of issues. Rulings from these cases shape law—so people studying law might want to know about them (even if they don’t like the rulings). It’s common sense.
Dodge Alaska ! Horrifying! Begin with the monies and wasteful Alaskan spending from the profits from the pipeline. Alaska receives 5.4 billion annually from the federal government. Is Alaska Dodge interested in cutting Alaskans PFD , reducing the feds Alaskan money dump by approximately 1 billion per year. Think of the federal savings.
My experience with University Libraries is that they subscribe to the periodicals and databases requested by the faculty. Since Fairbanks does not have a law school it somewhat understandable that they do not subscribe to the Law Journal Library, though it does bring into question the value of any claimed pre-law program. Since UAF does have departments for Psychology, Social & Human Development, Social Work as well as Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies it would make sense that these harbingers of woke ideology would request the library maintain the resources described in the article.
UAF used to have full subscriptions to West law AND Heinlaw, now it’s prioritizing “woke ideology” politics. The irony is without access to full legal law libraries online at the University, no real civil rights law library research can be done there. Our State of Alaska has actually “bought into” and has paid with OUR money to force “woke ideology” into every level of State of Alaska government, politics and education there is- it’s unbelievable but it’s true.
There is absolutely no reason why Alaska needs a brick and mortar university or college. Mediocre colleges are closing left and right, and no one knows of a more mediocre college anywhere in N. American than the University of Alaska. Seventeen campuses, $300 million annual subsidy and they teach remedial courses! One can obtain a 4 year college degree much less expensively from a much superior accredited university from any home in Alaska that has the internet. That $300 million could be much better spent or it could reduce the hit the operating budget takes on the PFD.
Funny how while Elon’s Doge group is rooting out corruption and waste, Congress’ current continuing resolution allocated higher spending than fiscal 2024. They must be using new math?
Did anyone ask the librarians why they have some subscriptions and not others? Maybe those databases are the free ones.