Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Inside Higher Ed has a good analysis of the copyright infringement suit against Georgia State University. Three major academic presses, backed by the Association of American Publishers, allege “systematic, widespread, and unauthorized copying and distribution” at the university through the library electronic course reserve system, Blackboard, departmental Web sites and individual course syllabi posted online. …
Information Week reports that Google has started testing ways to index data from the invisible Web, including “Web pages generated dynamically from a database, based on input such as might be provided through a Web submission form.” (For more on the invisible Web, see my Wisconsin Lawyer article, Searching Smarter) Given that the invisible Web, …
The State of Oregon has declared that the Oregon Revised Statutes are copyrighted material and has sent cease and desist letters to sites like Justia and Public.Resource.Org that have been posting copies of the laws. Carl Malamud has issued a response which he has posted on Scribd, along with related documents. Source: BoingBoing
According to the Law Revision Counsel, by way of the GovDocs-l listserv, titles 1-9 of the 2006 edition of the official U.S. Code are now available on the House of Representatives U.S. Code Search site. See the about page for more information. The first four volumes (titles 1 to 10,
The following databases are available free this week (some longer): Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals – Ovid actually offers a free database every month – See their Resource of the Month page ebrary is offering complimentary access to library science e-books for a full year. Gale is offering access to a vast number of databases …
Stop by the UW Law Library this week and help us celebrate National Library Week! For our celebration this year, we have put together a number of activities including, of course, our faculty READ posters. This year’s posters feature, Anuj Desai and Keith Findley & John Pray. Want to star in your very own READ …
From Law Librarian Blog: Student lender Access Group has announced a contest entitled “One Less Worry.” The contest will award $10,000 to the most deserving video posted on YouTube describing “what law students worry about.” Access Group will select the ten finalists based on “creativity, humor, quality, realism and overall appeal” and and then open …
New faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series from the Legal Scholarship Network (SSRN). Do Bits Really Work? Revisiting the Empirical Link between Investment Treaties and Foreign Direct Investment Jason W. Yackee, University of Wisconsin Law School Wiretapping before the Wires: The Post Office and the Birth of Communications Privacy …
“Wouldn’t it be great if you could have your voice mail e-mailed or texted to you instead of having to call back in to your number?” “What if you could leave customized greetings for people in your address book?” These are the questions asked – and answered – by YouMail, a free external voicemail service …
New from the Milwaukee Public Library: 19th Century U. S. Newspapers Consisting of just under 17 million articles, 19th Century U. S. Newspapers from the Thomson Gale Company is a genealogy or history buff’s dream come true. Fully searchable by keyword, this database includes papers from across the U.S., and is particularly strong on the …