Year: 2004

Google has put together a nice, one page cheat sheet of some of the more advanced search features. I plan to post it right next to my monitor.

The November 2004 edition of WSLL @ Your Service is now available from the Wisconsin State Law Library. Improvements to the WSLL Web site and library catalog are highlighted this month.

Librarian Paula Seeger of the Dane County Legal Resource Center is offering a free monthly Internet Tips newsletter via email. If you would like to subscribe, contact Paula at paula.seeger@wicourts.gov The following is a list of topics covered in recent issues: Internet Tip 1: Your mouse and you; Internet-related File Types; Advanced Google Searching Internet …

Newsweek has a nice article about Wikipedia, “a free online encyclopedia that draws articles not from a sequestered brain trust of academics but from the great unwashed: thousands of Internet users around the world who freely add to and edit the site.” See It’s Like a Blog, But It’s a Wiki Wikipedia has created quite …

Thinking of starting your own blawg? The blog, Notes from the (Legal) Underground, offers fourteen tips on Finding Your Voice in the Blawgosphere. These tips are especially useful for potential blawgers because they focus on specifically on the legal market. Source: Thanks to Paula Seeger at the DCLRC for the tip

The November 2004 edition of the DCLRC Docket (Dane County Legal Resource Center) is now available. Voter resources are highlighted.

Two Election 2004 resources available: – Debate Transcripts: Search and analyze the complete transcript from the presidential and vice presidential debates. Installation free askSam Viewer is required. – Video Archive: Includes “everything from debate footage from C-SPAN to politically themed rap videos…and lots and lots of campaign advertising from the candidates themselves as well as …

Learn about recent enhancements to Westlaw and LexisNexis in LLRX.com’s article, Lexis and Westlaw Revisited. Featured are Westlaw Past Stats and Lexis Practitioner’s Toolbox.

I just heard about a fairly new service from LexisNexis called Research On Call. For a fee, LexisNexis research specialists will perform research tasks for you. Sounds interesting. I’m not endorsing the service – just passing on the information. According to LexisNexis, examples of the types and areas of research available include case evaluation, discovery, …

It appears that pending software modifications, U.S. criminal case documents filed on or after November 1, 2004 (unless they are sealed) will now be available via PACER. This is due to a change in the privacy policy restricting online access to criminal documents. For those unfamiliar with PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records), it …