Two of the biggest names in the legal database and publishing world recently announced that they would be partnering up to expand the scope of services that they offer to their customers. Hein Online and …
Data & Databases
Congress.gov to Replace THOMAS
Congress.gov is a beta site by the Library of Congress that contains U.S. legislative information. It will eventually replace THOMAS.gov. At this point, the beta Congress.gov contains legislation from the 107th Congress (2001) to the …
Digital Commons Network Makes Open Access Articles More Accessible
bepress recently launched a new product called The Digital Commons Network. It indexes and makes available scholarship contained in the broad network of open access institutional repositories that use the Digital Commons platform. Digital Common …
City of Madison Launches Open Data Platform
From the journal, Government Technology: On Jan. 8, city officials announced the launch of its open data ordinance and a more accessible open data platform. Thus far, only one other city in the country, New …
Whitepaper Compares Caselaw Citators
Internet for Lawyers recently posted a whitepaper in which authors, Carole A. Levitt and Mark Rosch, compare the results generated by the following caselaw citators: Google Scholar, Fastcase, Casemaker, LexisNexis, WestlawNext, and Bloomberg. Registration is …
SSRN App
SSRN, the Social Science Research Network, has recently launched a iPhone/iPad app. SSRN is a repository of scholarly research for social sciences and humanities scholarship, including law. Many of our UW Law School professors have …
Guide to Searching on FDsys – basic search tutorial
GPO has recently released a new series of training video modules on its Federal Digital System (FDsys). The first video introduces the basic search in FDsys and I must say that I was quite impressed. …
Study Reports that Westlaw Classic is Significantly Less Expensive than WestlawNext
Emily Marcum of Lightfoot of Franklin & White, LLC recently conducted a study comparing the pricing models of WestlawNext v Westlaw Classic. Although the full study is not available, the abstract from SSRN appears below: …
Google Changes Format of Legal Citator
I suspect that most of you know that Google Scholar offers full text federal and state court opinions. But did you know that it also offers a citator similar to (although not as extensive as) …
Improve Your Google Search Results
Hack College has created a useful infographic on how to use Google more effectively. It’s targeted toward students, but is helpful to anyone who uses Google – which is just about everyone, right? I found …