Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
One of most useful features of the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin (LLAW) Newsletter is Cindy May’s Recommended Readings. I can always find a few gems I’ve missed in her annotated list. One article of interest is Metadata: What You Can’t See Can Hurt You by Sharon Nelson and John Simek. Law Practice 32(2):28-29 (March …
The folks at IndexMaster have beta released a new service called BooksOnPoint which indexes the content of legal publishers’ web sites. Unlike IndexMaster, which provides the full index and/or table of contents of legal texts, BooksOnPoint only retrieves content freely available on a publisher web page, such as description, publication details or summary table of …
Google has revved up it’s blog search engine with the addition of date restrictors. Go to the Advanced Blog Search page to search posts written within a specific date range. While Google blog search is still my most often used blog search tool, I agree with ResearchBuzz that it could benefit from some of the …
It seems that LexisNexis has unveiled some Canadian RSS feeds, including new Butterworths Titles, The Lawyers Weekly (headlines from the weekly legal newspaper), Supreme Court of Canada Service (case digests) and more. U.S. feeds are available from LexisNexis Mealeys, including general news, legal trends, and numerous Mealey’s litigation reports. Now if only Lexis (and Westlaw) …
Thanks to Wendy Nobunaga from the USC Law Library for compiling a list of law reviews and journals on the Web. Codes indicate what is available at each site: F = Full-text A = Abstracts T = Table of Contents S = Subscription Information The list is divided into: general law reviews subject specific law …
Good news for law students, faculty, and staff: the Wall Street Journal and other Factiva content is finally available via LexisNexis to law schools. From the press release: Beginning May 12, your students, faculty and library staff will have access to the following Factiva sources: Publication Name: – Asian Wall Street Journal – Barron’s – …
The folks who brought us NationMaster.com, have released a new tool called StateMaster.com, a statistical database which allows you to research and compare a multitude of different data on U.S. states. This is pretty sweet. With a few clicks of the mouse, you can find lots of stats, complete with charts and maps. Some of …
Microsoft has beta released a new search engine for academic journal content called Windows Live. According to a press release, the initial beta release will target the subjects of computer science, electrical engineering and physics, although they plan to bring new subjects online in the near future. It seems that Microsoft, like Google Scholar, has …
For those academic librarians, like myself, who thought that LexisNexis Academic would never be metasearchable, I share the good news that they do have an XML gateway in production. According to an email received by a UW–Madison Library staff member from a product manager at LexisNexis Academic: “We are at different stages of implementation with …
It looks like EBSCOhost is offering a couple of new search enhancements: RSS Alerts for saved searches and a visual search interface. EBSCO has some great medical and business databases, many of which are available freely to Wisconsinites via Badgerlink. Visual search: This type of search is great for the visual learner. Search results are …