Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman recently announced that EDGAR will be replaced with a new system called IDEA offering “investors far faster and easier access to key financial information about public companies and mutual funds.” From the press release: The new system is called IDEA, short for Interactive Data Electronic Applications. Based on a …
Now you (or your dog) can star in your own mini READ poster thanks to ALA (American Library Association). Just upload your photo, add some text if desired, choose a poster style, and you’re done! How fun!
The Wisconsin Law Journal reports that “on Oct. 14, 2008, the Wisconsin Supreme Court will, for the fourth time, consider a proposed rule to allow citation to an unpublished decision for persuasive authority.” Read more.
I was very pleased to share that Legal Research in Wisconsin, 2nd edition is finally available. The authors are Ted Potter (main author), Jane Colwin, Mary Koshollek, and UW Law Library’s own Bill Ebbott and Sunil Rao. Here’s the abstract from Hein: This new edition continues to offer a comprehensive reference tool about legal research …
Yesterday a representative from Zotero, Trevor Owens, gave a demo to our law school faculty. To say that they were impressed would be an understatement – there were actual squeals of delight. Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. I’ve known about it for a …
I’m pleased to announced that the entire run of the University of Wisconsin Law School’s alumni newsletter, The Gargoyle, has been digitized and is freely available on our Web site. The collection spans from volume 1 (1969) to the present. The digitization project was organized by the UW Law Library in collaboration with Technology Services. …
Must be the week for new interfaces – this time its a new look for del.icio.us – or make that Delicious (hold the periods). Delicious is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. Here’s a look at my list of the bookmarks I’ve tagged PhotosImages in Delicious: According to the …
It appears that SSRN (Social Science Research Network) has made some interface improvements to its author and article pages. Very nice. For those that may not be familiar with it, SSRN is an open access repository of scholarly papers. Article page: Notice the large download buttons at the top of the article page. They appear …
A new service called Slydial connects you directly to to someone’s mobile voicemail – without ever having the phone ring. Sneaky. Here’s how it works: Dial 267-SLYDIAL (267-759-3425) from any landline or mobile phone. (It doesn’t work if you have caller id blocked on your phone) At the voice prompt, enter the U.S. mobile phone …
Genie Tyburski has announced that she’s closing down The Virtual Chase. Wow – the end of an era. I will take down the site gradually over the next several months unless I find someone willing to archive it or continue its development. I anticipate that the site will be completely offline by no later than …