Must be the week for new interfaces – this time its a new look for del.icio.us – or make that Delicious (hold the periods). Delicious is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and …
Data & Databases
SSRN Improves Article and Author Pages
It appears that SSRN (Social Science Research Network) has made some interface improvements to its author and article pages. Very nice. For those that may not be familiar with it, SSRN is an open access …
Free Criminal History Search for Individuals or Entire Neighborhoods
Criminal Searches is a new site that allows you to do just what its name implies – run a criminal history check on specific people or generally for a geographic area. From an AP story: …
Survey Finds that Most Law Librarians Prefer Westlaw to LexisNexis
Two librarians from Stanford Law School, J. Paul Lomio and Erika V. Wayne, have recently published the results of their study analyzing law librarians opinions on LexisNexis v. Westlaw. As costs for research tools, both …
CityDictionary Defines Local Customs/Phrases
CityDictionary is a fun new online dictionary with a local flavor. From the creator: It’s for regional words/phrases/things/places, etc. that you think someone should know about a city. But it’s more than just a city …
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: …
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 …
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 …
Search 19th Century Newspapers
New from the Milwaukee Public Library: 19th Century U. S. Newspapers Consisting of just under 17 million articles, 19th Century U. S. Newspapers from the Thomson Gale Company is a genealogy or history buff’s dream …
GPO Authenticates Online Content
Beginning with the 110th Congress, the Public and Private Laws on GPO Access have been digitally signed and certified. GPO has signed and certified the PDF files to assure users that the online documents are …