The Federal Judiciary has launched a new mobile web version of the PACER Case Locator. There is nothing to install – mobile visitors to PACER Case Locator will simply be redirected to pcl.uscourts.gov/searchmobile. The PACER …
Year: 2011
Improvements to WI Legislature's Databases Enables Users to Research the History of and Connections between State Legislation, Regulations and Case Law
Bruce Hoesly, Revising Attorney/Code Editor at the Legislative Reference Bureau, informed me of some very exciting changes to the Wisconsin legislative and administrative databases on the Legislature’s website. Note that the link on the Legislature’s …
PACER Training Site Available
The Federal Judiciary has launched a new PACER training site where current and future users can learn how to use PACER. You don’t have to register, and there is no charge for accessing this training …
Wisconsin Court System Redesigns Website
The Wisconsin court system has recently redesigned its Web site. According to the press release, “in addition to a new graphical presentation, the new Web site helps guides visitors with better organized tabs and drop-down …
Federal Courts Increase PACER Fees by 25%
“The federal courts announced on Tuesday that they would be increasing fees for accessing public court records by 25 percent, from 8
JSTOR Makes Early Journal Content Freely Available
Today, JSTOR announced that they are making journal content published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world. This “Early Journal Content” includes …
WI Legislature Releases New Web Platform for Wisconsin Statutes
The Wisconsin Legislature has officially released the dramatically improved web search platform for the Wisconsin Statutes. It has been available in beta for a while (see my earlier post about it), but now it is …
Two Legal Journal Indexes Change Platforms – ILP and IFLP
In updating the “Legal Periodicals and Indexes” chapter of the upcoming edition of Fundamentals of Legal Research, I’ve done some digging into the details of two major indexes that will be changing platforms in the …
Jureeka! Now Powered by Cornell's LII
It appears that Jureeka! is now powered by Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII). Jureeka! is a Firefox plugin that turns legal citations in web pages into hyperlinks that point to online legal source material. It’s …
Google De-Enhancements
A few weeks ago I posted that Google had discontinued the Google Uncle Sam search engine for government documents. Law Librarian Blog reports that Google has, unfortunately, discontinued a few more things: “The option for …