One of the Top Ten Lists You Don’t Want To Miss from Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog caught my eye: Top 10 Largest Databases in the World. Number 1? the Library of Congress. The …
Data & Databases
American Law Sources Online, An Excellent Legal Research Portal
One of my favorite sites for researching law on the Internet is American Law Sources Online (ALSO). ALSO has compiled an outstanding, well organized collection of links to freely available primary and some secondary legal …
Comparing Loislaw and Versuslaw
Electronic legal research can be very expensive. Fortunately, there are a few lower cost options out there, including Loislaw and Versuslaw. There is a nice short article comparing the two in the February 2007 edition …
ABA's List of Free Library Databases by State
Kudos to the ABA for compiling a list of state public Library Databases. Many public libraries now offer extensive database collections free to their patrons. For most libraries these databases can be accessed from a …
Article on Paid Wikipedia Entries
This Capital Times article entitled, Wikipedia payment: Why the big deal? was today’s Library Link of the Day. Abstract: Gregory Kohs last year launched MyWikiBiz, a service that offered to write Wikipedia entries for businesses …
Article on Paid Wikipedia Entries
This Capital Times article entitled, Wikipedia payment: Why the big deal? was today’s Library Link of the Day. Abstract: Gregory Kohs last year launched MyWikiBiz, a service that offered to write Wikipedia entries for businesses …
"Places Mentioned in this Book" Now In Some Google Book Search Results
Google has announced a new feature in the “About the Book” pages on Google Book Search. It’s called “Places Mentioned in this Book” and it displays an interactive map with pointers to cities and addresses …
Meta Search for Inside the Book Searches
Over the last year or so, several search engines have been released that let you search inside books (Google Books, Amazon Search Inside/A9 & MSN Live Book Search). But there has never been a way, …
UWDC Digitizes Additional Volumes of Foreign Relations of the United States
The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections has recently digitized additional volumes of the Foreign Relations of the United States. It now covers 311 volumes from 1861 to 1958/1960. The Foreign Relations of the United States …
UK Statute Law Database Free on Web
Just released today, the UK Statute Law Database (SLD) is the official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom made available online. Previously accessible only to a limited number of users in …