Good news for all you Hein-heads out there (I am certainly one of them). Hein Online recently added a great new feature to their interface where you can email a link to a Hein …
Data & Databases
Scholarly Content from ProQuest Now Discoverable in Google Scholar
Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower According to a press release from ProQuest, “the full text of its scholarly content – including journals and working papers – is now …
Study Identifies Gaps in the Research Sources Being Taught in Law School
Return to normal view · Wider · Narrower Rebecca S. Trammell, Law Library Director of Stetson University College of Law has recently completed a dissertation on Technology & Legal Research: What Is Taught & What Is Used in the …
Search for Fair Use Cases using the US Copyright office's new index
Copyright and it’s component Fair Use, are two of the stickiest and (at least for me!) most headache-inducing areas of law. There are so many shades of gray and changes that it can be difficult …
Track Citations to an Author's Works in HeinOnline
Earlier this year, HeinOnline added a new author profile feature to their Law Journal Library that allows readers to view more information about authors and allows authors to showcase their work. See WisBlawg post. Hein …
Corrections data reveals prison demographics
The latest issue of The Third Branch, a quarterly publication of the Director of State Courts Office, offers an interesting look at prison demographics in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Department of Corrections has analyzed some large …
The ABA launches the collateral consequences of criminal conviction database
A great new addition the world of legal research is the recently launched Collateral Consequences database from the ABA. With it, legal researchers can search across all 50 states and federal jurisdictions to discover and …
HeinOnline's top 250 authors (according to ScholarRank)
Coming on the heels of Hein’s new Author Profile pages that Bonnie detailed last week comes Hein’s ScholarRank. This interesting tool gives users a glimpse at which Hein authors are not only cited the most …
Author Profile Pages Now Available In HeinOnline
HeinOnline has added a new author profile feature in their Law Journal Library that allows readers to to view more information about authors and allows authors to showcase their work. To access the profile page …
Working Paper on the Availability of Tribal Law
Last year I became responsible for our collection of Native American materials at the UW Law Library. In reviewing the collection and availability of sources, I learned that tribal legal materials are very difficult to …