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Recent postings on the ABA SOLOSEZ listserv highlighted two useful resources for state law research, each compiled by members. From Bob Ambrogi, State Laws On The Internet, and from Frank J. Kautz II, A Directory of States that includes links to: state homepages, state courts, state statutes, state bar homepages, state consumer protection resources, and …
Congressional Quarterly’s legislative tracking tool, CQ.com, recently launched a re-designed portal with new features and enhanced services for subscribers, such as realtime breaking and analysis, a more user friendly interface, and options to personalize customer tracking and monitoring preferences using a “My CQ” feature. See the press release here.
J.D. Lasica, blogger and senior editor for the Online Journalism Review, details the advantages of the increasingly popular free and fee-based news aggregator applications in News That Comes to You. These programs allow researchers who are suffering from information overload to scan headlines chosen from among thousands of news feeds that use RSS (Rich Site …
The Assistant Law Librarian of the Federal Reserve Board Law Library, Richard J. McKinney, has updated his two valuable guides (both in PDF) for legal researchers: Research Guide to the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations and Federal Legislative History Research, A Practitioner’s Guide to Compiling the Documents and Sifting for Legislative Intent …
NextWave has prevailed in their case to maintain wireless spectrum licenses purchased from the FCC prior to its bankruptcy reorganization. An article on the decision from AP is here. The NextWave press release is here, and a copy of the decision is here. The Supreme Court oral argument transcript is here.
The first web-based open source encyclopedia, Wikipedia, celebrated its second anniversary with the milestone of publishing 100,000 articles in its English language version, all contributed by volunteers who maintain a non-partisan perspective. See this Wired article for background on this resource that is well worth a visit.
From J M, via JOHO the Blog, another quick and easy way to locate names and addresses when you have only a telephone number: Using Google, simply type in the 10 digit phone number, and the search result will provide you with the name and address of the associated individual or organization, as well as …
Do you ever jot down a telephone number and forget to note the name associated with it? I sure do. Here is a quick, easy to use, free Reverse Number Lookup service from Verizon that requires only that you type in a ten digit telephone number to obtain the name and address of the owner, …
The Digital National Security Archive currently hosts 35,000 declassified documents, comprising 15 distinct collections on U.S. security policies and decision making. For example, you may access documents from the Cuban Missle Crisis, Iran-Contra Affair, and Presidential Directives on National Security from Truman to Clinton. There is also a Documents of the Month section, and the …
From Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), this press release announces new features for AlltheWeb.com that include Automatic Language Mapping (the site determines the user’s language and provides query responses accordingly), new search tools, full support for common Boolean operators, and a Query Language Cheet Sheet. Teoma 2.0 was launched this week, highlighting the new Advanced …
Via Research Buzz news that a treasure trove of searchable, historical Congressional documents and debates (with many imaged texts) from 1774-1875 are now available to researchers from the American Memory Project, A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation. Included are House bills from the first forty-three sessions of Congress, Senate bills and resolutions beginning …
Apparently there is some controversy brewing in the purchase of Hoover’s Inc., the corporate intelligence database, by the huge financial database publisher D&B (Dun & Bradstreet), according to this article.
