Information Week reports that Google has started testing ways to index data from the invisible Web, including “Web pages generated dynamically from a database, based on input such as might be provided through a Web …
Month: April 2008
Oregon Declares Statutes Copyrighted Material
The State of Oregon has declared that the Oregon Revised Statutes are copyrighted material and has sent cease and desist letters to sites like Justia and Public.Resource.Org that have been posting copies of the laws. …
Availability of 2006 U.S. Code
According to the Law Revision Counsel, by way of the GovDocs-l listserv, titles 1-9 of the 2006 edition of the official U.S. Code are now available on the House of Representatives U.S. Code Search site. …
National Library Week Freebies – Databases
The following databases are available free this week (some longer): Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals – Ovid actually offers a free database every month – See their Resource of the Month page ebrary is offering …
Happy National Library Week 2008!
Stop by the UW Law Library this week and help us celebrate National Library Week! For our celebration this year, we have put together a number of activities including, of course, our faculty READ posters. …
Video Contest Wants Law Schools to Tell Their Worries
From Law Librarian Blog: Student lender Access Group has announced a contest entitled “One Less Worry.” The contest will award $10,000 to the most deserving video posted on YouTube describing “what law students worry about.” …
Recent Scholarship from UW Law School Faculty
New faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series from the Legal Scholarship Network (SSRN). Do Bits Really Work? Revisiting the Empirical Link between Investment Treaties and Foreign Direct Investment Jason …
YouMail Offers Advanced Voicemail Features – Customized Greetings, Transcription, Email Delivery
“Wouldn’t it be great if you could have your voice mail e-mailed or texted to you instead of having to call back in to your number?” “What if you could leave customized greetings for people …
Search 19th Century Newspapers
New from the Milwaukee Public Library: 19th Century U. S. Newspapers Consisting of just under 17 million articles, 19th Century U. S. Newspapers from the Thomson Gale Company is a genealogy or history buff’s dream …
Governor Vetoes Bill to Expand Access to Juvenile Court Records
From Channel 3000: [Gov. Jim Doyle] vetoed a bill that would expand access to juvenile court records for police, judges and social workers. Current state law considers juvenile court records confidential. Law enforcement officers, judges …