University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Data & Databases

Competitive Intelligence Resource Guide

Donna Cavallini and Sabrina I. Pacifici have recently updated their Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide on LLRX. They recommend a number of excellent free or low cost resources for monitoring of your competitors.

Nothing Special About Google Finance

According to MarketWatch’s Bambi Francisco, Google’s newest service, Google Finance, gets a thumbs-down from some hedge-fund managers. Launched Tuesday, Google’s (GOOG) latest, Google Finance — with its perfunctory quotes, news headlines, charts and the like — is not terribly impressive, partly because it looks so much like other finance sites created years ago, notably Yahoo …

High Tech, Circa 1986

In going through some files, I found an old issue of Westlaw Password featuring this photo, circa 1986. Bring back any memories? I think that my parents got our first home computer around that time. It was an Atari which used our TV as a monitor and cassette tapes as storage media. Those were the …

Wisconsin Briefs Database Incorporates New Docket Number Format

Last April, the Clerk of Supreme Court’s office changed to a new case management system. As part of this change, the docket number format for Supreme Court and Court Appeals cases has changed. The new docket format contains the year, followed by the letters AP (appeals) and the case number. For example, docket number 99-1234 …

Ask To Retire Jeeves Name

From TVC Alert Ask.com soon will retire the name, Ask Jeeves, to become simply Ask.

Diplomatic Papers Added to Foreign Relations of the U.S. Collection

Tthe University of Wisconsin Digital Collections group has announced the addition of Diplomatic Papers, 1944-1945 to its Foreign Relations of the United States Collection. The Foreign Relations series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. The series is produced by the State …