Category «Legal Research»

Searchable Version of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act

Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, Free askSam Searchable Version (ResearchBuzz) From the press release: “The text from the several hundred page act has been imported into a searchable, hypertext-linked askSam database. The individual sections of the legislation are divided into separate documents in the database. This allows you to easily locate sections …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

UN Official Document System Now Available to Public

From the press release: “The United Nations…announced the availability of its Official Document System (ODS), the premier full-text web resource for official United Nations documentation, to the general public, as of 31 December 2004…Comprehensive coverage starts in 1993. Older United Nations documents are added to the system on a daily basis. Selective coverage of General …

Subjects: Legal Research

Extensive Archive of Previously Unreleased Historical Military Docs. Now Available

Researcher Michael Ravnitzky obtained an archive of over 500,00 documents from the Air Force Historical Research Agency, “cover(ing) almost every aspect of US military history from the 1920s to the early 1980s…This is the first time that this massive list has been seen by the public.” His FOIA request yielded this unprecedented collection of documents …

Subjects: Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

New Compliance Regs Result in More Secure Networks

From the RedSiren press release: “A new survey of computer security professionals reveals that while many of them believe that the time they need to comply with increased government regulations has cut into their ability to secure their computer networks, they also admit that those networks are safer as a result.” Related references: Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, …

Subjects: Legal Research, PC Security

The Growing Impact of Blogs in the Corporate Arena

Fortune.com has an extensive article on the slippery slope effect of relying on the “viral” linking aspect of blogs to promote products, as well as highlighting recent examples of the enormous impact of bloggers’ responses to instances of what they perceive as corporate misdeeds and the marketing of faulty products. Related article from the New …

Subjects: Blogs, Legal Research, Marketing, Microsoft

Dennis Kennedy’s 2004 Legal Blogging Awards

I am delighted and honored that Dennis Kennedy has chosen beSpacific as the Best Overall Legal Blog for 2004. To be in the company of experts in the legal blogging sphere such as Tom Mighell, Ernest Svenson, Denise Howell, Kevin O’Keefe, Jerry Lawson and Martin Schwimmer is just terrific. I relish spotlighting news, resources and …

Subjects: Blogs, Legal Research

Global Open Souce Database of Materials on Economics

“RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 44 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. All RePEc material is freely available.” (there are currently 193,000 items in the database)

Subjects: Legal Research