Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Give that old computer a new life. Don’t Trash Your Old PC from Law.com is a step-by-step guide on how to use an old PC as a primary or backup server. In this age of disposable everything, upgrading means “out with the old, in with the new.” But it doesn’t have to be that way. …
Today’s WI State Journal contains a nice article on the Dane County Legal Resource Center. About 80 percent of the people who use the resource center are going to court without an attorney, [Director Paula] Seeger said. Even though much information is available on the Internet, people still need personal assistance, she said. Court officials …
A little bit of Wisconsin history has made its way on to the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry. As one of only 200 recordings to make the list, the old foghorn of Kewaunee, Wis. joins some elite company including JFK’s “ask not what your country can do for you” speech and Martin Luther King …
Microsoft has beta released a new search engine for academic journal content called Windows Live. According to a press release, the initial beta release will target the subjects of computer science, electrical engineering and physics, although they plan to bring new subjects online in the near future. It seems that Microsoft, like Google Scholar, has …
Law.com reports that Supreme Court Votes to Allow Citation to Unpublished Opinions in Federal Courts The Supreme Court on Wednesday adopted a historic rule change that will allow lawyers to cite so-called unpublished opinions in federal courts starting next year. The new rule takes effect unless Congress countermands it before Dec. 1. . . Under …
The LRB has put together a nice, two-page guide on the Wisconsin Idea which explores its origins, importance, and future. What is the Wisconsin Idea? From the the guide: The most commonly offered definition of the Wisconsin Idea is that “the boundaries of the University are the boundaries of the state,” which refers to the …
For those academic librarians, like myself, who thought that LexisNexis Academic would never be metasearchable, I share the good news that they do have an XML gateway in production. According to an email received by a UW-Madison Library staff member from a product manager at LexisNexis Academic: “We are at different stages of implementation with …
MissPronouncer.com is a neat little site for “learning to pronounce stuff in Wisconsin.” From place names to politicians, this site will have you speaking like a native Wisconsinite.
It looks like EBSCOhost is offering a couple of new search enhancements: RSS Alerts for saved searches and a visual search interface. EBSCO has some great medical and business databases, many of which are available freely to Wisconsinites via Badgerlink. Visual search: This type of search is great for the visual learner. Search results are …
Lewis & Clark Law Professor Jack Bogdanski (of Jack Bog’s Blog! fame) has taken on a new challenge: Podcasting the Internal Revenue Code – one new section every day. From his blog: I’m all about public service, and I could not think of a more worthy internet project than to record a reading of the …