Year: 2005

PubMed has been around for a long time, but it’s such a wonderful resource that it’s worth repeating for those who may not have discovered it yet. A service of the National Library of Medicine, PubMed includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950’s. When available, links to full text articles …

The Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin’s Public Access to Legal Information Committee has developed a useful list of Wisconsin Law Libraries Open to the Public. The list contains location, hours, contact info, library staff and collection size, and a description of services available to the public. A very handy list!

ALMExperts.com is a free online directory of 15,000+ experts, expert witnesses, investigators, court reporters, consultants, and litigation support professionals. According to House of Butter: The redesigned site features listings in 36 main categories, with over 2,300 searchable subcategories ranging from accident investigation to medical/health to document analysis. Users can browse by category or use powerful …

From PDF for Lawyers: The ABA Law Practice Managment Section is sponsoring a free webinar on what’s new in the latest version of Adobe Acrobat 7.0. It’s free for ABA Members, who can register at this link. The webinar is a one hour deal that will take place on Tuesday May 24th at 12:00 pm …

From Cornell Law Library’s InSITE: Regulations.gov is a federal government initiative to encourage public participation in the rulemaking process. As experienced legal researchers know, when a federal agency proposes a new rule it is published in the Federal Register and a comment period is provided. The Regulations.gov website revolutionizes the commenting process by taking it …

Blogs are great for keeping up on national news, but what about the local buzz? Check out Blogdigger Local to “see what they’re saying in your neck of the woods!” Madison has its own aggregator of local blogs. “Dane101 is a website for Madison and Dane County, about the persons, events, and issues that shape …

LISNews.com announces that there is a new service for RSS feeds from Amazon.com. Use it to search for your favorite author and subscribe to the feed to be notified when he/she publishes something new. You can also search for other things that Amazon sells, such as electronics, music, toys, and more. Source: AbsTracked

Speedy Trial: Q&A with Dane Co’s Legal Community is a new feature of DCLRCBlawg. Members of Dane County’s legal community are introduced as they answer a series of questions posed to them. Should be interesting. First up is Deb Smith, Director- Assigned Counsel Division, Wisconsin State Public Defender.

It’s hard to believe, but tomorrow WisBlawg will celebrate its first birthday. Even more unbelievable to me, is the fact that just a year and a month ago I hardly knew what a blog was! WisBlawg began as an experiment to see if a law library blog had a place in the blawgosphere. At that …

CheapGas is a new site that combines the power of Google Maps and gasbuddy by creating maps that pinpoint the location of and fuel prices at gas stations in cities across the U.S. In Wisconsin, choose from Milwaukee, Madison or a view state wide listing. Source: ResearchBuzz