Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The Appleton Post-Crescent has gathered together a number of Wisconsin-related public records databases, some useful, others, well, maybe more interesting than useful. They include: Banned Wisconsin license plates Delinquent Appleton accounts Disciplined doctors, dentists and other licensed professionals Smoking cost calculator New businesses in Northeastern Wisconsin Wisconsin school salaries Fox Valley delinquent taxpayers Wisconsin sexually …
Denise Howell over at Lawgarithims has good things to stay about Docstoc, a “user generated community where you can find and share professional documents.” There are tons of sample legal and business forms to be had, not to mention law school outlines and bar exam resources. Seems a lot like Scribd but with more legal …
There is a new public-domain law search engine on the block and it’s a dandy. Content Like parallel projects, Public.Resource.Org and AltLaw, newcomer PreCYdent aims to compile public-domain cases and statutes for free availability on the Web. “We believe judicial opinions and statutes must be in the public domain, in practice as well as in …
Despite speculation to the contrary, The Wall Street Journal will keep a significant portion of its content behind its paid-subscription wall. The Atlantic Monthly, however, has recently dropped its subscriber registration requirement, making the site free to all visitors. Back issues are available from 1995 to the present. Note that the search box, oddly enough, …
Cornell Law Library has recently enhanced their Legal Research Search Engine to include a few new specialty search engines. It now includes four search engines: Legal Research Guides (compiled by law libraries around the county) Legal Internet (sites indexed by InSite) Academic Blawgs and a combined search of the all of the above You can …
From the HeinOnline Weblog: Next month, HeinOnline will release an enhancement that will allow you to search an Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law Database. The database was created from the Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law publication, which is compiled and edited by Roy M. Mersky and Donald J. Dunn and has …
I learned today that full-time professors of law, economics, or accounting may sign up for complimentary access to Tax Analysts Campus. The purpose of Tax Analysts Campus is to provide professors an opportunity to teach with, and students to learn with, Tax Analysts’ news and research products. These products include: Tax Notes Today (Daily) Tax …
A question about citation management software on the ALL-SIS listserv reminded me that I haven’t yet posted about EndNote’s addition of the Bluebook citation style. Previously, the only product of which I was aware that supported Bluebook was Citation Legal Edition. [What is citation management software?] I learned about this back in August when Web …
Hein Online is now offering live chat search and tech support. Live help is accessible through the “Help” button found in the upper right hand corner, on the welcome screen, and in the technical and training sections of the home page. If you aren’t familiar with Hein Online, it is made up of several libraries, …
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is the public policy research arm of the United States Congress. The reports issued by CRS, which are created to inform members of Congress on issues of public policy, are excellent sources of in-depth, non-partisan information. Unfortunately, while the taxpayer-funded CRS reports are unclassified, they do not become public until …