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The New York Times News Tracker Service through which readers may create and schedule the delivery of topic/search specific e-mail, will be migrated from free to fee. The cost: $19.95 per year for tracking ten alerts. However, as noted by Jonathan Dube, Yahoo! Alerts remains free.
An update to my April 23 posting on the Summit on Web Credibility – Here is a link to edited transcripts of presentations made at the conference, wherein Experts Discuss Paid vs. ‘Pure’ Search Results. Said experts are from Hewlett-Packard, Google, Overture, ConsumerReports.org and Consumer WebWatch.
From the International Association of Law Libraries, this calendar of upcoming events provides links to topical CLE programs around the world for law librarians/info professionals and attorneys that will take place in 2003-2007, as well as links to past events from 2002. The site is maintained by Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Foreign and International Law Librarian and …
Blawg Search, in beta, allowers users to view and search postings (listed as “top stories” and “new stories”) from 68 (as of this afternoon) legal blogs, including beSpacific. The site also indicates when the page was refreshed. With cookies activated, users may list preferences for content that includes number of results, sorting results by relevance …
The FirstGov portal has undergone its third redesign since the site’s introduction September 2000, although the new lingo according to this press release (thanks Tara) is that the site has been ‘refreshed.’ From the release: “The new refreshed site allows users to go straight into a Citizen Gateway, which provides easy access to government services …
According to this resource, “In 1961, Congress designated May 1 as Law Day, a time for Americans to reflect on the rule of law in a constitutional republic.” I missed the exact date on this one, but nevertheless thought it worth mentioning. Here is the link to Law Day, U.S.A., 2003, By the President of …
“TexasLawHelp.org is a project of the Texas Access to Justice Commission and the Texas Equal Access to Justice Foundation, in partnership with participating legal aid organizations.” Users may locate information according to county or zip code, and services are provided on issues that include: civil rights, disability, health, immigration, employment and housing. From the site’s …
The May 1, 2003 edition of the Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information, by Marian Dworaczek, is now available. It “deals with all aspects of electronic publishing and include print and non-print materials, periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected works. This edition includes over 1,500 indexed titles and is updated …
This statement now appears on the United Press International (UPI) site: “Thank you for coming to the UPI Web site. With the exception of selected articles, our content is no longer available for public view. For subscription inquiries, please contact the UPI sales staff.”
United Nations Treaties and Principles on Space Law. “The Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space is the only international forum for the development of international space law. Since its inception, the Committee has concluded five international legal instruments and five sets of legal principles governing space-related activities.” Via Metalfilter.
The New York Public Library announced their annual Best of Reference list for 2003, which includes the following websites of note: The Scout Report and Archives; Librarians’ Index to the Internet; Statistical Resources on the Web and Online Newspapers (onlinenewspapers.com & newslink.org).
News about the release of the Melvyl-T catalog from the University of California, which “contains more than 23 million records for material held by the libraries of the 10 campuses of the UC system. The database is updated continually as material is ordered, received and cataloged by the libraries.”
