Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The Madison Public Library has recently subscribed to LexisNexis Library Express. Although this is not the full version of LexisNexis with which many legal practitioners are familiar, LexisNexis Library Express does provide access to thousands of full-text news, business, and legal publications. See the specific coverage information. LexisNexis Library Express is accessible at any Madison …
From Information Today: Mobile Apps for Law is a just-released database on the web that covers all legal research and utility apps for all types of mobile devices. Whether you use an iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, BlackBerry, Android device, or a Palm PC, this is the place to find out which law apps are available …
Wisconsin Public Notices is a new site containing full text public notices as originally published in Wisconsin newspapers. The site was created by the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. The site features a robust search engine allowing users to search by keyword, date, location and/or newspaper title. The search results (see image below) show the full page …
As you may already know, Google Scholar offers an excellent collection of free federal and state case law for the following years of coverage. Sup. Ct. pre 1776? Fed. Circ. Cts. 1924? Fed. District Cts. varies States vary (most mid 1950s?) Using the advanced search page, you’ve always been able to limit your search to …
The Milwaukee Public Library has recently acquired the Digital Sanborn Atlases which contains very detailed, large-scale maps of Wisconsin towns and cities from 1867-1970. The maps were created by the Sanborn Map Company for fire insurance purposes. They detail buildings and their construction materials and were used to assess potential risk from fire and other …
The Government Printing Office has recently released a federated (combined) search engine for multiple databases compiled by the federal government. The new search engine called MetaLib includes reference databases, digital repositories and subject-based Web gateways. View a complete list of all current resources that can be accessed in MetaLib. For more info, see the FDLP …
The latest edition of InsideTrack from the Wisconsin State Bar highlights some major improvements in the search capability of Books Unbound. Books UnBound is the subscription-based online library of State Bar of Wisconsin CLE Books. The first improvement is that you can now search across the all of the Books UnBound titles in your subscription. …
From the U.S. Government Printing Office: The sunset of GPO Access is planned for the end of 2010. At this time, FDsys will assume the role as GPO’s electronic system of record. Migration of all content from GPO Access to FDsys will be complete by October 2010, and the two systems will run in parallel …
From Wisconsin InfoLink: BadgerLink — the state’s online full-text library collections — now has access to five years of complete PDF pages from more than 250 Wisconsin newspapers, dailies and weeklies…. The collection goes back to March 2005 and will continue to grow as current editions are added to the database. There is a 60-day …
Thanks to Bev Butula on her Wisconsin Law Journal blog for sharing that the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel now offers an archive of articles from 1884 – 2007. The search box is located on the JSOnline homepage on lower right. Coverage includes the following, although there do appear to be some gaps: Milwaukee Journal – 1884 to …