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Novalawcity points to a pair of handy cost effective research tip sheets from LexisNexis and Westlaw. For additional documentation and tip sheets on using those services, see Westlaw User Guides and LexisNexis Literature & Reference Materials & Law School Reference Literature. Most guides are available for download in PDF format. For hard copies, contact a …

Robert Ambrogi reports that a new service called PatentMojo: . . . enables patent professionals to create watchlists for patent searches and monitor them through RSS feeds. . . Its users are able to create watchlists using any search criteria. The service searches the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office data daily and delivers updates via …

Chilling Effects is a joint site from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and several academic institutions which “aims to help you understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to your online activities” One of their projects is the development of a database of Cease & Desist notices. They are inviting users …

Back when I was a law firm librarian, I can remember being asked all the time to locate legal forms. And it’s not always easy. For some good advice, check out DCLRC Blawg’s latest legal research tip on finding legal forms. It covers mandatory court forms, county specific forms, forms on the Internet, form manuals, …

Connie Von Der Heide of the Wisconsin State Law Library reports that the Wisconsin Humanities Council is coordinating a statewide book discussion series entitled, A More Perfect Union: The Common Defense. Discussion kits are available from the WHC. Series description: The second A More Perfect Union book discussion series explores the founders’ mandate “to provide …

Now available – The 18th edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation. To learn what’s changed, law librarians can attend the AALL Annual Meeting program, “Is the New Bluebook New?,” on Tuesday, July 19th. Source: AbsTracked

The New York Daily Times reports a chilling tale about a murder victim’s last blog post. In what may have been just minutes after posting to his blog that his sister’s boyfriend was in the house, a New York man and his sister were murdered. The entry led police to arrest the boyfriend for the …

There was an interesting article in Wednesday’s Capital Times about School Information System, a blog about the Madison school system which is “seen as a growing force in local school politics and policy.” According to the article, School Information System blogger, Jim Zellmer, believes that “The news media here pays too little attention to schools. …

TVC Alert reports that: The Department of Justice announced on Friday plans to build a Web site that would deliver sex offender registry information to the public for all U.S. states and territories. Initially, it hopes to have information for at least 20 states available in about 60 days.

Find out what our U.S. congressmen and women are up to with Plogress, a new service that reports on the activities of individual representatives via automated blogs. View a listing of Wisconsin’s senators and representatives or choose another state from the listing on the left side. Source: inter alia