Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
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 in the April 2007 Wisconsin Lawyer, Tony covers: Online Sources of Public Records Background Checks Finding Company and Industry Information …
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 1997. Written by librarians for librarians, ARBAonline’s reviews cover reference sources from more than 400 publishers in over 500 subject …
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 offers over 2,500 databases of law, news and information from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Africa, Malaysia …
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 website includes a publishing history of the Proceedings, a list of notable trials that reveal a lot of the context …
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. After librarians complained that they already pay tens of thousands of dollars for access to premium New York Times content …
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 authenticated. In short, “How trustworthy are state-level primary legal resources on the Web?” The answer (from the executive summary): A …
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, given that “in 1998, the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration encouraged the publication of CRS Reports on the …
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 have the data). Thanks to one of my UW–Madison library colleagues for the tip – albeit an odd one.
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 access to The NYT archive dating back to 1851, op-ed columnists, news tracker, and more.
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 one page pretty much everything you can do with Google – which is a lot! Google Librarian Central explains Google …