Cindy Chick of LawLibTech, reports on her conversations with legal publishers at AALL about content delivery via RSS. She writes, “I found some serious progress is being made on the RSS front.” Here’s more: First, …
Data & Databases
Silly Government Document Titles
Free Government Information (FGI) has compiled a list of silly titles of government documents. The list based on an exchange among GovDoc-L subscribers. Some of my favorites are (title followed by SuDoc number and link …
National Sex Offender Public Registry Now Covers All 50 States
“All 50 states are now participating in the National Sex Offender Public Registry (NSOPR) Web site,” the Justice Department announced on Monday, according to Government Technology. “The Department of Justice-sponsored site allows parents and concerned …
Directory of Published Proceedings Now Available Free
InterDok has announced that it is offering the Directory of Published Proceedings (DoPP) freely available on the Internet. DoPP indexes published conference proceedings in science, engineering, medice, social science and humanities. There are over 280,000 …
Full Text Searching in EDGAR
From BeSpacific: Search Full Text of EDGAR Filings From Last 2 Years SEC: “This page allows you to search the full text of EDGAR filings from the last two years. The full text of a …
Google UncleSam Gets a Make Over
Google UncleSam is now Google U.S. Government Search. From Google: Google U.S. Government Search offers a single location for searching across U.S. government information, and for keeping up to date on government news. You can …
Google Spreadsheets
From LibrarianInBlack: Google Spreadsheets Well, I posted early in the day that Google was launching Spreadsheets, all incredulous and cranky that it hadn’t appeared yet. But it did, and here’s the information: spreadsheets.google.com/. They’re still …
Legal, Factual & Other Internet Sites for Attorneys & Others
Timothy L. Coggins, Associate Dean for Library and Information Services and Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law has compiled a very comprehensive list of Legal, Factual and Other Internet Sites …
UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper series
The UW Law School has put together a new edition in its Legal Studies Research Paper series (via SSRN). The following papers are available: (Bloggers take note of the last one) “The New versus the …
MS Office Add-in Strips Metadata – To Be Added to CCAP Workstations
Judge Daniel Anderson responded to yesterday’s post Metadata: What You Can’t See Can Hurt You. He recommends using the Microsoft Office add-in that removes hidden data. With his permission, I’d like to share his comments: …