Law Libraries and Law Librarians Who Are Blogging
Law Library Blogs and Blogs by Law Librarians or Law Library Associations – Compiled by Bonnie Shucha – Updated 6/2/05.
Category «Legal Research»
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Getting a Grip on the CSI Effect: The National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology and the Law at Stetson University College of Law. Diana Botluk and Brittan Mitchell detail how the NCSTL accomplishes its founders’ vision to provide a one-stop-shopping website for judges, lawyers, scientists and law enforcement officials who seek information about the nexus between …
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Dockets Update, by Robyn Rebollo Bibliography of Employment Resources for Law Librarians, by Gloria Miccioli The Federal Civil Code of Mexico, by Prof. Jorge A. Vargas The Government Domain: New Tools For Government Research After Hours: Taste of the Nation Comes to Brooklyn / Meet Cuke Skywalker / Mail Order Wine, by Kathy Biehl
SEC Issues New Sarbanes Oxley Compliance Guidelines
Division of Corporation Finance, Office of the Chief Accountant, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, May 16, 2005 – Staff Statement on Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting: “The staff is providing this guidance to…addresses the following areas: The purpose of internal control over financial reporting; Reasonable assurance, risk-based approach, and scope of testing …
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Researching Medical Literature on the Internet — 2005 Update, by Gloria Miccioli The Problem of Orphan Works, by Tobe Liebert FOIA Facts: GAO Issues New FOIA Report, by Scott A. Hodes
Website Offers Detailed Info on Crimes Reported in Chicago
A non-profit, non-government affiliated project, this free, browsable database of crimes reported in Chicago (with source data from the Chicago Police Department’s Citizen ICAM website), makes use of Google for map views, and RSS feeds “for every block and police beat in the city.” Users may browse by crime type, street, date, police district, location …
Range of Responses to NYTimes Online Fee Announcement
Yesterday I posted a link to the New York Times announcement of a new fee-based service to access a selected range of current and archival content, effective September 2005. Bloggers, journalists, newspaper execs and financial analysts offer their responses: Business People Like ‘NYT’ Plan to Charge on Web; Bloggers Don’t.
Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court
Encyclopedia Of The Supreme Court, by David Shultz. Publisher: Facts on File (May 31, 2005). For more details, see the press release.
Dogpile.com Sponsored White Paper Documents Rate of Overlap in Big Three Engine Results
Missing Pieces: A Study of First Page Web Search Engine Results Overlap “A comprehensive study conducted by metasearch engine Dogpile.com in collaboration with researchers from The University of Pittsburgh and The Pennsylvania State University has found that page one results returned by leading single engines Google, Yahoo! and Ask Jeeves differ substantially from one another. …
New York Times Announces New Online Fee-Based Service
Press release: “The New York Times announced today a new online offering called TimesSelect, which for a modest fee will provide exclusive access to Op-Ed and news columnists on NYTimes.com, easy and in-depth access to The Times’s online archives [initially, the archives will go back only to 1980 but eventually to 1851], early access to …
FirstGov Reference Center on Libraries
The FirstGov.gov Reference Center Libraries. An alphabetical list of links to resources including: national, federal and local libraries, online library databases, email listservs, Government RSS Library, and lots more. Worth a look.
Current Law Journal Content Seeks Assistance to Expand Titles
John Doyle, Washington and Lee Law School, announced that his Current Law Journal Content currently covers 800 journals. He is seeking to “include additional English language non-U.S. titles.”
