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From the WSJ today ($$), A Guide to Some of the Internet’s Best — And Most Overlooked — Health Sites. For more substantive treatment of this issue (no pun intended), see the monthly column on LLRX.com, Metaforix@Health, and Gloria Miccioli’s Researching Medical Literature on the Internet — 2003 Update.
From the Freedom of Information Center, State FOI Laws: “The following sites contain basic statutes about open meetings and open records. Many states have multiple statutes that provide exemptions.” The page indicates the last update was May 1, 2004.
“Access to Celex menu search is free of charge from 1 July 2004. Nevertheless the use of a login and a password is temporarily required. Please use the login enlu0000 and the password europe.” As posted on INT-LAW by Lyonette Louis-Jacques.
Government Printing Office: Actions to Strengthen and Sustain GPO’s Transformation, GAO-04-830, June 30, 2004, Highlights: “Federal government printing and dissemination are changing due to the underlying changes to the technological environment…Federal agencies are publishing more documents directly to the Web and are doing more of their printing and dissemination of information without using GPO services. …
The U.S. General Accounting Office website has undergone a much needed redesign, although the result is, to say the least, restrained (and red, white and blue all over). From the homepage, users may search all reports or legal products, as well as conduct searches by keyword or report number. A link to Current Reports and …
In the July 2004 issue of the ABA Journal (pages 34-35, text not currently available free online), see the article, The New Librarian, focusing on the topic of hourly rates for billable time, which according to a recent informal survey on the Private Law Libraries Special Interest Section Listserv, range from $80 to $200 for …
From the LA Times (reg. req’d), PeopleSoft Lawyer’s Weblog Is Fresh Twist in Spin Wars. View from the Court
New on LLRX.com for June 21, 2004: A Selective Guide to Online International Arbitration Resources UK Constitutional Reform Notes from the Tech Trenches: Spicy Handouts for Tastier Training FOIA Facts: Ronald Reagan’s FOIA Legacy Wisdom from the Grammar Goddess: Breaking the Spell After Hours: Travel Tip, Book It! and Time Travel Tickets, Part II (Old-Fashioned …
From FindLaw: Department of Justice memo to White House counsel, Aug 1, 2002, Re: Standards of Conduct for Interrogation, 50 pages, PDF) Assistant Attorney General Jay S. Bybee letter to White House counsel, Aug. 1, 2002: Interrogation and Torture Assistant Attorney General Jay S. Bybee memo to Defense Department general counsel William J. Haynes II, …
From the press release: “U.S. businesses are throwing away billions of dollars in lost time due to ineffective and deficient research tools, according to a new study released today by FIND/SVP, a leading provider of business research, advisory, and consulting services. In fact, 84 percent of respondents feel that Web searches take longer than they …
Jonathan Franklin is the author of a chapter, last updated March 1, 2004, on International Intellectual Property Law, published on the American Society of International Law’s Guide to Electronic Resources on International Law. [Lyonette Louis-Jacques]
The June 2004 issue of The American Lawyer includes an AmLaw Tech Library Survey: Books, Bytes and Budgets. Subtitled, “Caught between paper and PCs, librarians struggle to speed services and corral costs.”
