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The European Legal Studies (CELS) of the University of Exeter hosts the European Private Law Homepage, which “provides a starting point for legal research on European private law. It contains original material in the form of a comprehensive overview of all secondary Community law relevant to private law scholars and practitioners.”
Using Primary Sources on the Web: “This brief guide is designed to provide students and researchers with information to help them evaluate the internet sources and the quality of primary materials that can be found online.” [via LisNews]
20 Great Google Secrets, by Tara Calishain, author of Google Hacks, offers useful suggestions to make your use of the search engine more effective.
Nolo and Justia have launched a new free recall and warnings site, which focuses on products, food, drug and car recall data. The site is arranged so users may view data by category (currently there are 11), review government notices on recent recalls, or choose to read one of a half dozen featured recall notices …
The premier issue of the first free journal from the Public Library of Science, PLoS Biology, is now available online, although traffic to the site since the announcement has resulted in intermittent access. From the editorial statement: “PLoS Biology, and every PLoS journal to follow, will be an open-access publicationeverything we publish will immediately be …
Assessing Competitive Intelligence Software A Guide to Evaluating CI Technology, by France Bouthillier and Kathleen Shearer Foreword by Chun Wei Choo: “As commercial software products for Competitive Intelligence (CI) have begun to emerge and gain acceptance, potential users find themselves overly dependent on information supplied by the software makers. Reviews and surveys are published from …
Law Libraries with Innovative Systems, compiled by Anne Myers: “This list attempts to clarify which law libraries have their own systems and which share a system with another library or through a consortium. Libraries are listed alphabetically by name of institution under each category, with libraries outside the United States found at the end of …
The following new articles were published this week on LLRX.com: How Dewey Classify OCLC’s Lawsuit Knowledge Management is a Business Imperative The Future of RSS – Is E-Mail Publishing Dead? WTO/GATT Research Update to Introduction to the Swiss Legal System: A Guide for Foreign Researchers Lexis and Westlaw Changes and Wishlist FOIA Facts: Inside the …
Bimonthly Review of Law Books. This link provides access to the current issue (Volume 14 Number 4 July/August 2003), as well as to the publication archives, which date back to December, 2000. According to publisher Brian Flaherty, Reference Librarian, New England School of Law Library, (co-publisher is Prof. Michael L. Rustad) the site will …
From a posting by Gerrit Betlem on the EURO-LEX listserv: “The Centre for European Legal Studies of the University of Exeter School of Law is publishing the Exeter Papers in European Law on the Web. Four Papers are currently available online: Reform of the European Council: A Case Study; The Convention on the Future of …
GPO provides access to The U.S. Government Manual 2003-2004 via either a key word search or through a browse feature (choose between viewing content in text of pdf), to access data organized into the following topics: Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, Executive Branch, Executive Agencies, Independent Establishments and Gov’t Corporations, Quasi-Official Agencies, Appendices and Changes.
RSS News Readers Browse for You identifies the top news aggregators as: FeedDemon 1.0, Feedreader 2.5, NewsGator 1.3 and SharpReader 0.9.2.1.
