If you’re a legal practitioner or scholar, you’re almost certainly familiar with The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation. But you may not have heard of the ALWD Guide to Legal Citation. ALWD, from the …
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What’s New in the Wisconsin Guide to Citation, Tenth Edition
The State Bar of Wisconsin has recently released a revised edition of the Wisconsin Guide to Citation. The new Tenth Edition contains the following updates: Table T2 (Foreign Jurisdictions) has moved online (http://www.legalbluebook.com) with the …
New Study Offers Tips for Increasing Law Review Article Citations
82% of law review articles have zero citations within the first five years. 82%. This grim finding is from a recent study by Rob Willey and Melanie Knapp of George Mason University Law Library who …
Virtual Symposium on Citation and the Law
The Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School is hosting a free Virtual Symposium on Citation and the Law on April 22 and 23, 2021. Registration is now open. The symposium will highlight the …
Representing Law Faculty Scholarly Impact: Strategies for Improving Citation Metrics and Promoting Scholarly Visibility
For the last few years, I’ve been following the issue of legal citation metrics and scholarly impact and visibility very closely. I’m pleased to share that my new paper entitled, Representing Law Faculty Scholarly Impact: …
Law Scholars Can Now Add Books & Interdisciplinary Works to Hein through ORCID Integration – What this could mean for the US News scholarly impact ranking
If you’ve been following the new US News Scholarly Impact Ranking, you know that the exclusion of books and interdisciplinary works has been a major concern for many law scholars. Last February, I posted about how …
Latest on U.S. News Scholarly Impact Rankings from Robert Morse
Last Friday, I attended a presentation by Robert Morse, Chief Data Strategist at U.S. News on law school rankings at the Texas A&M University School of Law’s virtual Conference for Associate Deans. Among many other …
Counterfeit Bluebooks – How to Tell & What to Do if You Have One
So counterfeit Bluebooks are a thing. According to the editors of the authentic Bluebook, some counterfeit books are being sold on online marketplaces, including Amazon and Alibris. Many of these books contain errors and inconsistencies. …
Instantly Create and Share a Bibliography with ZoteroBib – Even in Bluebook
When I’m writing a document or article and I need to manage a bunch of citations, my go-to tool is Zotero. It’s an incredibly powerful citation manager that helps you collect, organize, cite, and share …
A Zotero Update and work-around for the UW Catalog
2015 has been a whirlwind year of change for UW Libraries, even though most of it is not obvious to users. The campus (and entire UW system!) recently switched our library catalog platform and modified …