Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
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 post didn’t give any sources for this information, however, which makes me wonder about its validity. I’m a librarian – …
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 resources for federal and state law. It includes case law, statutes, local ordinances, administrative code, forms, research guides, and more. …
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 of The CRIV Sheet (which is an insert in AALL Spectrum). When looking at your research options, Loislaw and Versuslaw …
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 remote computer with a library card ID number. Which means research can be conducted at home or at the office …
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 for $49 to $99. But a few days afterward, MyWikiBiz’s account on Wikipedia was blocked. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales called …
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 for $49 to $99. But a few days afterward, MyWikiBiz’s account on Wikipedia was blocked. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales called …
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 mentioned in the text of the book. From a Google Libraries Group message: Readers can click and drag or zoom …
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, until now, to search them all simultaneously. Developer Kokogiak notes that there are some big differences in the type of …
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 series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for …
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 government, SLD is now publicly available online, free of charge. Thanks to my colleague, Nancy Paul, for the tip.