Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
From Zotero: George Mason University has released an official statement about the Thomson Reuters lawsuit. The press release is copied below. The Thomson Reuters Corporation has sued the Commonwealth of Virginia over Zotero, a project based at George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media (CHNM). A free and open-source software initiative, Zotero aims …
The Chronicle of Higher Education blog reports that “Half the students at the University of Cambridge have plagiarized, according to results of a survey by Varsity, a student newspaper at the university…. Law students, the newspaper said, broke the rules most often, with 62 percent admitting that they had plagiarized.” In response to the story, …
Starting November 3, 2008, Madison area public library users will be able to receive an e-mail notice two days before checked out items are due. This service will be available on an “opt-in” basis, so if you would like to participate, please contact your local library. Or, you can use Library Elf like I do. …
From the Wisconsin Law Journal: The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Oct. 28 took another step in broadening an electronic filing system for attorneys, but the court also made it known it is not willing to go entirely paperless anytime soon. Starting on July 1, 2009, attorneys in the state will be expected to file briefs …
The Badger Herald has gathered an spooky list of hauntings on campus. Wisconsin Union Theater, Science Hall and Memorial Library are among the supposedly haunted. Memorial Library is also mentioned by Britannica Blog in their list of haunted libraries. From the list of Midwest libraries: Madison, University of Wisconsin, Memorial Library. The ghost of English …
“After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only,” reports the New York Times. “The paper is currently published Monday through Friday, and will move to online only in April, although it will also introduce a weekend magazine.” The article discusses the growing online …
The Real Estate Collection is a new resource from the UW Digital Collections Center. It contains materials and examples of commercial work in real estate done by celebrated University of Wisconsin professor James A. Graaskamp and others. James Graaskamp taught real estate at the UW–Madison from 1964 to 1988 and was chairman of the Real …
A settlement has been reached in the class action lawsuit against Google over access to copyrighted material in Google Books. From the AP: According to a statement issued Tuesday by the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers and Google, the agreement “will expand online access to millions of in-copyright books and other written materials …
From Yahoo News: A 43-year-old Japanese woman whose sudden divorce in a virtual game world made her so angry that she killed her online husband’s digital persona has been arrested on suspicion of hacking, police said Thursday… The woman used login information she got from the 33-year-old office worker when their characters were happily married, …
I recently gave a short presentation to our students and faculty on the various course page options available at the UW Law School. I prepared a handout highlighting the pros and cons of the various tools, including LexisNexis Course Pages, TWEN, Moodle and Desire2Learn. My presentation was followed by a discussion of what the students …