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HeinOnline Expands Topical Taxonomy to Include Broader Categories & Subjects

Posted on January 7, 2021

For a while now, HeinOnline has assigned topics to each article in the Law Journal Library database.  This allows researchers to get a general idea of the scope of the article before they dive in …

Posted in Data & Databases, Research Strategies

Tips on Locating Email Addresses

Posted on September 2, 2020

Have you ever tried to contact a specific person at a business or other organization but didn’t know their email address?  Tracking down individual email addresses can be difficult, but there are a few tricks …

Posted in Research Strategies

It's Not Science Fiction, It's a New Way to Search

Posted on December 12, 2017

Here in law library-land, we’re all familiar with the concept of “citation chasing”- i.e., finding one good on-point article and then mining its citations, footnotes, and citing sources for other relevant articles. But what if …

Posted in Data & Databases, News, Research Strategies, Search Engines, Tools

A small but critical change on Congress.gov

Posted on June 30, 2017

  Congress.Gov announced yesterday that with their new version of searching, users will now get slightly different results. The reason? The default operator is now AND and not OR. So, as Congress.Gov’s post points out, …

Posted in Research Strategies, Search Engines, Web

Khan Academy Announces Free LSAT Test Prep

Posted on March 30, 2017

This post was authored by Eric Taylor, Evening Reference Librarian at the UW Law Library. Coming in 2018, all those aspiring to go to law school will be able to access online LSAT test prep …

Posted in Law Students, Research Strategies, Tools

CourtListener Frees the Law

Posted on March 9, 2017

The following blog post was written by Eric Taylor, Evening Reference Librarian at the University of Wisconsin Law School Library CourtListener is a powerful new free legal research website sponsored by the non-profit Free Law …

Posted in Legal Assistance, Public Information, Research Strategies, Search Engines, Web

Lexis.com retiring from Law Schools on December 31

Posted on December 13, 2016

It’s the end of an era as Lexis.com, the long-running and highly regarded database says its final goodbyes to the Law School community. With 100% of Lexis content now migrated to Lexis Advance, the small …

Posted in Data & Databases, Research Strategies, Web

UW Law Library Research Guides

Posted on January 5, 2016

Did you know that the UW Law Library offers research guides on numerous legal topics?  Here’s a quick infographic that I created with Easel.ly with a few highlights.

Posted in Libraries & Librarians, Research Strategies

Hein Online adds an email delivery option

Posted on October 9, 2015

  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 …

Posted in Data & Databases, Legal Professionals, Research Strategies, Tools, Web

Zimmerman's Legal Research Guide – and Blog

Posted on July 30, 2010

Zimmerman’s Legal Research Guide is a tremendous resource for discovering the best resources in specific areas of law. I often use the online encyclopedia when I’m presented with a research question on an unfamiliar topic. …

Posted in Research Strategies
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