Tony Chan, information specialist at Quarles & Brady LLP, Milwaukee and LLAW Government Relations Committee Chair, has written an excellent article on Gathering Competitive Intelligence for Litigators and Business Lawyers. In the article, which appears …
Data & Databases
American Reference Books Annual Online Free this Week
Libraries Unlimited is providing free access to ARBAonline during National Library Week April 15-22, 2007. Derived from the trusted reference standard American Reference Books Annual, ARBAonline features about 17,000+ reviews of reference works published since …
Free Quicklaw Access for U.S. Law Schools
It’s not very well advertised, but U.S. law school users may access Quicklaw at no charge. To register, call 1-800-387-0899. A .edu email address is required. Quicklaw, from LexisNexis Canada, is a Web-based resource that …
Proceedings of the Old Bailey Digitized
From LibraryBoy: Two professors in England have digitized the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, the digest of more than 100,000 trials that took place in the famous London criminal courts between 1674 and 1834. The …
NYT Rethinks Free Access to Colleges Based on Librarian Complaints
The Chronicle of Higher Ed reports that the New York Times has altered its offer to make Times Select, which includes columnists and archives going back to the 1800s, available to college students for free. …
How Trustworthy are State-level Primary Legal Resources on the Web? Not Very, Says AALL Report
AALL has conducted a State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources. The report presents the results of a survey of primary online legal resources and whether these resources are official and capable of being …
CRS Reports No Longer Distributed to 'Non-Congressionals'
Material Information at Hamline reports that “according to the CRS Director Daniel Mulhollan, CRS reports cannot be distributed to ‘non-Congressionals’ without prior approval from CRS officials.” See Mulhollan’s memo. This is quite interesting and troublesome, …
Odd Google Search – Celebrity Heights
I recently learned about a fairly odd Google search feature. If you type in the name of a celebrity followed by the word “height,” Google will tell you how tall the person is (if they …
NYT Archive Free to .Edu Users
Apparently, as of March 13th, the New York Times has opened up access permanently to TimesSelect to all students and faculty who have .edu e-mail addresses. See the sign up for more information. TimesSelect provides …
Google Tips and Tricks
There have been a couple of good posts recently about cool Google tips and tricks. Bates InfoTip, an email newsletter, shares four Little-Known Google Tools. One of these is Simply Google which gathers together on …