GPO Access will officially be shut down on March 16, 2012. Users will be redirected to content on FDsys for at least one year thereafter. For more info, see FDLP Desktop
Data & Databases
Some Law Firms Encouraging/Requiring Law Students to Violate Westlaw & Lexis Agreements
From the Legal Skills Prof Blog: The Utah Legal Ethics Advisory Committee considered whether an attorney who encouraged a student to breach her agreement by doing firm-related research had committed an ethical violation. The Committee …
Index to Legal Periodicals No Longer Available via LexisNexis
According to the Law Library Directors’ listserv, Index to Legal Periodicals (ILP) will no longer be available through LexisNexis at the request of the publisher. It is unknown whether it will continue to be available …
JSTOR Makes Early Journal Content Freely Available
Today, JSTOR announced that they are making journal content published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world. This “Early Journal Content” includes …
Two Legal Journal Indexes Change Platforms – ILP and IFLP
In updating the “Legal Periodicals and Indexes” chapter of the upcoming edition of Fundamentals of Legal Research, I’ve done some digging into the details of two major indexes that will be changing platforms in the …
Google De-Enhancements
A few weeks ago I posted that Google had discontinued the Google Uncle Sam search engine for government documents. Law Librarian Blog reports that Google has, unfortunately, discontinued a few more things: “The option for …
Google Pulls the Plug on Uncle Sam
From Government Computer News: Saying that search technology has made some specialized tools unnecessary, Google has discontinued operation the Google.com/UncleSam tool for searching government websites…. “Today, search quality has advanced tremendously, and based on our …
Feedback Needed on Beta US Code Website
From the AALL Government Relations Office: The Office of the Law Revision Counsel is seeking comments on the new beta version of its website for the U.S. Code. The Office is looking for feedback from …
House Votes for Cuts to FDsys
H.R. 2551, passed by the House of Representatives, would eliminate funding for GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys). “Kirsten Clark, the regional depository librarian at the University of Minnesota and the chair of ALA’s Government Documents …
New Features for WisBar's Books UnBound
Books UnBound, the database of online CLE Books from the State Bar of Wisconsin, has added some new features recently. My favorite new feature is the ability to search across your entire Books UnBound library …