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Information science. Going, going, gone: lost Internet references. Dellavalle RP, Hester EJ, Heilig LF, Drake AL, Kuntzman JW, Graber M, Schilling LM, Science (subscription only), October 31, 2003, 302: 787-788. “The use of Internet references in academic literature is common, and Internet references are frequently inaccessible. The extent of Internet referencing and Internet reference activity …
From Free Range Librarian by K. G. Schneider, Getting Started with RSS: The No-Brainer Method.
The Most-Cited Legal Periodicals: U.S. and selected non-U.S. website has been updated, according to John Doyle, Washington & Lee School of Law Library. The searchable database consists of 833 journals. Each journal is assigned topical references, and users may link directly to each specific journal’s homepage. Citations are provided to sources from Westlaw to access …
New on LLRX.com this week: LLRX Named One of the 10 Best Sites of the Decade Researching Medical Literature on the Internet — 2003 Update To Portal or Not to Portal – That is the Question Competitive Intelligence (CI) Resources: Staying One Step Ahead in Your Research Presentations Without a Laptop FOIA Items of Interest …
Deconstructing Knowledge by Nicholas Carroll, a project manager with Hastings Research, comments on the recent KM World-Intranets Convention, and “the disappearance of total end-to-end solutions.” Links to over 2 dozen presentations from the conference are here. If you are interested in intranets, portal, and KM, these materials are worth your review. In addition, see Catherine …
From the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Pacer Service Center: 30 Page Cap Will Soon Include Docket Sheets See also the Chronology of the Federal Judiciary’s Electronic Public Access (EPA) Program
Taming Online Research: Tracking, Reporting, & Cost Recovery: “Law firm libraries and information centers have new and better oppurtunities to track usage of online research, and participate in cost recovery endeavors. Software vendors, both new comers and old timers, help make better reporting possible.”
From Roll Call Newspaper Online, this free excerpt (subscription req’d to read complete article) on news about GPO and future public access to government documents: “In an effort to reverse declining sales revenue at the Government Printing Office, Public Printer Bruce James announced Tuesday that the agency will consider charging fees for many of the …
Is this a parody or a real-world look behind the scenes of a large law firm paralegal assignment: Legal Research? Get Me Sushi, With Footnotes. An excerpt of the memo is here. Note that it may not have the same resonance for those who do no work in NYC, but nevertheless may strike a familiar …
The Center for Digital Government announced the results of the 2003 Digital Legislatures Survey. Participation for the survey was solicited from all fifty states, and the Nevada Legislature Online was chosen the “most digitally advanced legislature in the country.” The Minnesota State Legislature and South Dakota Legislature websites were named second best. The rest of …
From the Google Weblog, news that Google has incorporated a glossary feature: Use “define” along with a search term to retrieve a web definition – example: define habeas corpus. At the end of the definition, you will see the phrase “More definitions,” which will provide you with a list of definitions from a range of …
