Year: 2008

SEC Adds RSS Feeds

The SEC has begun offering RSS feeds of new filings. You can receive all filings received by the SEC or do a search by company, CIK or form type and subscribe to the results. Source: Slaw

PreCYdent Tops Search Results

It seems that David Hobbie over at Caselines is very impressed with PreCYdent. He ran a sample search in several databases, both free and commercial, and was surprised with the results: I was stunned by the results of my search for IPJ on PreCYdent. The top six cases were the leading U.S. Supreme Court cases …

Publishers Sue Georgia State University for Copyright Infringement

Inside Higher Ed has a good analysis of the copyright infringement suit against Georgia State University. Three major academic presses, backed by the Association of American Publishers, allege “systematic, widespread, and unauthorized copying and distribution” at the university through the library electronic course reserve system, Blackboard, departmental Web sites and individual course syllabi posted online. …

Google Shines Light on the Invisible Web

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 submission form.” (For more on the invisible Web, see my Wisconsin Lawyer article, Searching Smarter) Given that the invisible Web, …

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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. Carl Malamud has issued a response which he has posted on Scribd, along with related documents. Source: BoingBoing

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. See the about page for more information. The first four volumes (titles 1 to 10,

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 complimentary access to library science e-books for a full year. Gale is offering access to a vast number of databases …

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. This year’s posters feature, Anuj Desai and Keith Findley & John Pray. Want to star in your very own READ …

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.” Access Group will select the ten finalists based on “creativity, humor, quality, realism and overall appeal” and and then open …

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 W. Yackee, University of Wisconsin Law School Wiretapping before the Wires: The Post Office and the Birth of Communications Privacy …