Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
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, there’s BNA. Their email newsletters are very popular among the attorney population. And yes, their information is soon to be …
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 to find in a local library): Fertilizers in a national emergency A 1.6:966 Find in a library The golden age …
“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 citizens to search existing public state and territory sex offender registries beyond their own states.” Source: New York Supreme Court …
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 records available. InterDok does also offer an Acquisitions Service if you wish to purchase any of the indexed proceedings. But, …
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 filing includes all data in the filing as well as all attachments to the filing. We are still developing this …
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 choose to search for content located on either U.S. federal, state and local government websites or the entire Web — …
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 sending out invitations to folks, so you can get one if you sign up soon! (LIB posted this yesterday)
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 for Attorneys and Others. It appears in the Richmond Journal of Law and Technology, Spring, 2006 (12 Rich. J.L. & …
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 Old Legal Realism: ‘Things Ain’t What They Used to Be'” STEWART MACAULAY University of Wisconsin Law School “A New Realism …
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: Metadata is a big problem in an appellate court because documents are circulated among a large group of people and …