Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
According to my rep, LexisNexis Fifty State Surveys of Statutes and Regulations are now available on the Law School menu. The LexisNexis 50 State Surveys deliver an easy to access, easy to understand overview of legislation, regulations and even court rules, all organized by topic. Use the following path: Legal > States Legal – U.S. …
In addition to the password protected LexisNexis, there is also a campus wide product called LexisNexis Academic to which the UW Madison Libraries subscribe. Anyone may use this service at no charge at any campus library. Although it doesn’t offer everything in full Lexis, most of it is there. LexisNexis Academic recently underwent a redesign …
Information Today reports that as of January 2008, American Law Reports (ALR) will be available exclusively on Westlaw. From the article: It isn’t the first time that users have had products pulled out from under them. Lexis took away Shepard’s Citators–and in fact, Westlaw’s novel and award-winning KeyCite was a response to that. Factiva has …
The Shifted Librarian reports that EBSCO has finally embraced RSS. To test it out, do a search in an EBSCO database, such as Academic Search Elite which is freely available to all Wisconsinites via Badgerlink. On your search results page, notice the orange RSS button which appears at the top. Click on this will give …
I noticed a while back that Shepard’s coverage was expanded in the new beta version of LexisNexis Academic. In the current version, only U.S. Supreme Court cases can be Shepardized. There was some discussion today on the AALL Academic Law Libraries SIS about coverage. Apparently it includes all case law, but no statutory coverage.
Looks like The New York Times may stop charging readers for online access to its TimesSelect service which features Op-Ed columnists and other content, says the New York Post. After much internal debate, Times executives – including publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. – made the decision to end the subscription-only TimesSelect service but have yet to …
The Madison Public Library reports that it has expanded its online collection of Madison City Directories. Coverage now spans from 1850-1911. The collection also contains historical county plat maps from South Central Wisconsin. In addition to their usefulness for historians and genealogists, these plat maps and city directories are also an important resource for legal …
Wendt Library Blog has some good hacks for Google Scholar for UW–Madison users. By simply changing your preferences, you can beef up your search results by adding full-text links from UW–Madison library databases. And now, you can export your search results to RefWorks.
The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections has recently digitized the full text of the Wisconsin Blue Books, going back to 1853. Read more about it in the Wisconsin State Journal.
The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections has recently digitized the full text of the Wisconsin Blue Books, going back to 1853. Read more about it in the Wisconsin State Journal.