Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
According to a press release, The New York Times announces that “all articles dating back to Sept. 18, 1851, when the paper started publishing, are now available online at NYTimes.com.” “Searches for articles published before 1981 will produce PDF files showing pages or articles exactly as they appeared in the newspaper. Articles published in 1981 …
The Wisconsin State Law Library newsletter recently ran an article describing the interface changes to the LegalTrac database. What’s LegalTrac? A database containing citations for articles in law reviews, specialty law publications, bar association journals, legal newspapers, etc. from 1980 to the present. And it’s freely available to WSLL library card holders from their home …
The big news today is Google News Archive Search, a searchable archive of articles that, in some cases, date back 200+ years. Some publishing partners include The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Guardian Unlimited, Factiva, Lexis-Nexis, HighBeam Research and Thomson Gale. See New York Times article for more. I …
You may have seen the news that the University of Michigan has partnered with Google to scan library materials. The project is called MBooks. According to the FAQ: Access to MBooks is through Mirlyn, the online catalog for the University of Michigan libraries. Conducting an “Advanced Search” and restricting the Format to “Electronic Resources” will …
Looks like LexisNexis has tuned in to the blogosphere. They are now picking up blog content in their Newstex (file name = NEWSTX) database. Lori Blair, Marketing Manager with the LexisNexis – Librarian Relations Group just send me a link to the list of blogs they cover. According to Lexis, coverage is January 1, 2006 …
Looking for samples of software license agreement or an employment contract? Check out Findlaw’s Corporate Counsel Center’s Business Contracts. This is a gold mine of contracts and sample contract language. And since it’s on Findlaw, it’s all free. Hidden in the Research Tools section at the bottom is a link to Contracts. You can browse …
Some of the scarier databases that my colleague, Bev Butula, covered in the Internet Research Workshop were those in the Investigating Individuals section. One of these is Zillow.com. Zillow offers free, instant valuations and data for over 67 million homes nationwide. Not just that, but it shows them on a hybrid satellite image/street map. Take …
Attention legal historians: WilsonWeb has added ten more years of coverage to Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective. You can now search for legal articles dating back to 1908. ILP Retro is available for public use at the UW Law Library. Although the full text of articles is not available in ILP Retro, the Law Library …
From the Wisconsin State Law Library newsletter, WSLL @ Your Service : New & Improved Westlaw Access @ WSLL and MLRC WSLL and MLRC have offered in-library user access to Westlaw for a little over a year now. With this popular service, users at either library can search and browse AllFeds and AllStates caselaw, Wisconsin …
In addition to their many other excellent guides, the Wisconsin State Law Library has compiled a list of Wisconsin Codes & Ordinances online. This is a very comprehensive guide.