Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
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 discovering web bookmarks. Here’s a look at my list of the bookmarks I’ve tagged PhotosImages in Delicious: According to the …
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 repository of scholarly papers. Article page: Notice the large download buttons at the top of the article page. They appear …
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: Created by the folks behind PeopleFinders.com, the new site crunches monthly government data down to the state and county level, …
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 online and paper, continue to increase, librarians are often faced with the difficult decision of what materials can and should …
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 guide — it’s really a place to share insider information like nicknames for things, regional slang, etc. that you wouldn’t …
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: Slaw
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 the results of my search for IPJ on PreCYdent. The top six cases were the leading U.S. Supreme Court cases …
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 complimentary access to library science e-books for a full year. Gale is offering access to a vast number of databases …
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 come true. Fully searchable by keyword, this database includes papers from across the U.S., and is particularly strong on the …
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 official and authentic. “To help meet the challenge of the digital age, GPO has begun implementing digital signatures to certain …