Thanks to Scott Frey who alerted me to some changes with CiteGenie. If you didn’t catch my earlier post about it, CiteGenie is a new extension for the Firefox web browser that, as its website …
Year: 2008
WisBlawg Featured at Blawg.com
I’m honored to report that WisBlawg is one of the featured blogs over at Blawg.com. If you’re not familiar with it, Blawg is a portal of legal blogs. It features a search engine for legal …
GMU Drops EndNote; Goes Ahead with Zotero Sync Preview
From Zotero: George Mason University has released an official statement about the Thomson Reuters lawsuit. The press release is copied below. The Thomson Reuters Corporation has sued the Commonwealth of Virginia over Zotero, a project …
62% of Cambridge Law Students Admit to Plagiarism
The Chronicle of Higher Education blog reports that “Half the students at the University of Cambridge have plagiarized, according to results of a survey by Varsity, a student newspaper at the university…. Law students, the …
Sign up to Receive Notice Before Library Books are Due
Starting November 3, 2008, Madison area public library users will be able to receive an e-mail notice two days before checked out items are due. This service will be available on an “opt-in” basis, so …
WI Appellate Courts Briefs to be Filed and Made Available Electronically
From the Wisconsin Law Journal: The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Oct. 28 took another step in broadening an electronic filing system for attorneys, but the court also made it known it is not willing to …
Haunted Campus: UW Madison Ghost Stories
The Badger Herald has gathered an spooky list of hauntings on campus. Wisconsin Union Theater, Science Hall and Memorial Library are among the supposedly haunted. Memorial Library is also mentioned by Britannica Blog in their …
Christian Science Monitor Weekly to Go Online Only
“After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only,” reports the New York Times. “The paper is currently published Monday through Friday, and will …
UWDCC Real Estate Collection Offers Consulting Reports from 1960s-90s
The Real Estate Collection is a new resource from the UW Digital Collections Center. It contains materials and examples of commercial work in real estate done by celebrated University of Wisconsin professor James A. Graaskamp …
Publisher/Author Settlement Agreement with Google Opens Door for Full Online Access to Millions of Books
A settlement has been reached in the class action lawsuit against Google over access to copyrighted material in Google Books. From the AP: According to a statement issued Tuesday by the Authors Guild, the Association …