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 …
Research Strategies
A small but critical change on Congress.gov
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, …
Khan Academy Announces Free LSAT Test Prep
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 …
CourtListener Frees the Law
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 …
Lexis.com retiring from Law Schools on December 31
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 …
UW Law Library Research Guides
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.
Hein Online adds an email delivery option
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 …
Zimmerman's Legal Research Guide – and Blog
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. …
Guides to Legal Research for the Layperson
The American Association of Law Libraries Legal Information Services to the Public SIS has recently published a new edition of its research guide, How to Research a Legal Problem: A Guide for Non-Lawyers. This guide …
Student's Wikipedia Hoax Fools Journalists, Bloggers
From Yahoo Tech: When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he said he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an …