Recently, Congress.gov launched several email alert services that allow you to track federal legislative information. First, the legislation alert allows you to track action on a particular bill. When viewing a bill in Congress.gov, click …
ACI Scholarly Blog Index
Scholarly blogs can be a very good source for legal and other research but identifying them from among the multitude of web content can be difficult. A new search engine called the ACI Scholarly Blog …
HeinOnline's top 250 authors (according to ScholarRank)
Coming on the heels of Hein’s new Author Profile pages that Bonnie detailed last week comes Hein’s ScholarRank. This interesting tool gives users a glimpse at which Hein authors are not only cited the most …
Author Profile Pages Now Available In HeinOnline
HeinOnline has added a new author profile feature in their Law Journal Library that allows readers to to view more information about authors and allows authors to showcase their work. To access the profile page …
Info on the New Session of the Wisconsin Legislature
Eileen Snyder of the Wisconsin Historical Society has put together a useful post on the new session of the Wisconsin Legislature. It includes information such as a list of state officers, salaries of state elected …
UW Law Library Website and WisBlawg Redesign
Within the next week, the UW Law Library will be introducing a new website redesign. The new site features a slimmed-down look and a more user friendly design – we hope! Here’s a sneak preview. …
Mobile Legal Dictionaries
Looking for a legal dictionary for your mobile device? Law Technology News has a good review of apps for both the legal professional and the non-lawyer. Apps are available in both iOS and Android and …
Water Law in Wisconsin
My colleague, Jenny Zook, has written a great piece on Water Law in Wisconsin for the latest Inside Track from the State Bar of Wisconsin. Here’s the abstract: The Great Lakes Region, at about 20 …
Kris Turner Wins WLA Rising Star Award
The UW Law Library is happy to announce that Kris Turner, our Reference and Technology Services Librarian, has been selected by the Wisconsin Library Association’s New Member Round Table as the recipient of its 2014 …
Will Including an Abstract and Table of Contents in your Law Review Article Increase Citations to It?
There is an interesting article on SSRN about whether including an abstract and/or table of contents in your law review article can have an impact on your scholarly influence. The authors observed that “on average …