But the death is…amicable. Altlaw.com announces that they will be shutting down in early 2010.
Filed under: Cool links, Courts, News, Technology, U.S. Law, legal research
November 17, 2009 • 6:43 pm 0
Google Scholar Now Includes Law Journals and Cases
From Google’s Official Blog:
Starting today, we’re enabling people everywhere to find and read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts using Google Scholar. You can find these opinions by searching for cases (like Planned Parenthood v. Casey), or by topics (like desegregation) or other queries that you are interested in. For example, go to Google Scholar, click on the “Legal opinions and journals” radio button, and try the query separate but equal. Your search results will include links to cases familiar to many of us in the U.S. such as Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education, which explore the acceptablity of “separate but equal” facilities for citizens at two different points in the history of the U.S. But your results will also include opinions from cases that you might be less familiar with, but which have played an important role.
Filed under: Cool links, Courts, News, Technology, U.S. Law, legal research
November 6, 2009 • 2:57 pm 1
Holy iPhone App, Batman!
Once again, proving the usefulness of Twitter, I find out (via @elizabethf) that Lexis has released a free iPhone/iPodTouch app that allows users to get cases from Lexis and to Shepardize them. You do need to have a current Lexis account. Still, how cool is that?
Filed under: Cool links, Technology, Web 2.0, legal research, social networks, software
October 5, 2009 • 1:23 pm 0
New! New! New!
2 new printer-related notices from OTS:
1. The printers in the computer lab now have double-sided printing capability. The instructions are posted on the lab doors, and there is a print-out with instructions at the library’s Information Desk.
2. Even better, students can now add printer pages online, rather than having to call OTS. Look for the “Additional Printer Pages” box on your MyUB portal page.
Filed under: Law School, Library, Technology
September 2, 2009 • 2:20 pm 0
Now a Word from CALI
There is often confusion surrounding the CALI authorization code among new students. Here are a few tips and a 2 minute video that to help you and your students avoid confusion.
Please pass this on to your students:
- Before creating a new account at cali.org, find your school’s authorization code and have it handy. Contact your school’s rep at www.cali.org/contacts or just ask a librarian.
- Use your school’s authorization code just one time. During your first cali.org registration/account creation process, enter it into the box entitled “Authorization Code.” You’ll never, ever type or even have to think about your school’s CALI authorization code again after your new cali.org account is created.
- Your school’s authorization code IS NOT your cali.org username or password: You create your own username during registration. You create a unique password by following a link CALI will send you in an email immediately following the first registration step.
This may sound confusing, but take two minutes to watch the video and you should understand.
4. Once you’ve registered, use the username/password you created during registration to login at cali.org. Once registration is complete and your account is created, you use your own username and password — not your school’s authorization code, which you can officially scrub from your memory.
Filed under: Law School, Technology, legal research, software
July 15, 2009 • 3:13 pm 0
Cool tool for law students
I wish they had aspenlawstudydesk back when I was in law school. It would have made studying a whole lot easier.
Filed under: Cool links, Law School, Technology, software
June 18, 2009 • 4:19 pm 2
Internet, copyright, creativity
Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother, and co-editor of Boing Boing, has written an interesting article explaining how copyright competition helps creators and how monopolies harm them. Check it out.
Filed under: Copyright, Intellectual Propery, Technology, Writing
June 15, 2009 • 3:33 pm 0
Cool Firefox add-ons
Add-ons are Firefox extensions that one can add to the basic browser to add new features. Bonnie Sucha, a super librarian at the University of Wisconsin Law Library, has put together a list of add-ons useful for legal/library researchers. Go check ‘em out.
Filed under: Cool links, Technology, Web 2.0, legal research, library 2.0, software
March 25, 2009 • 2:50 pm 0
Even some publishers are going more electronic
Hold the presses! The University of Michigan Press is moving to an electronic publishing model. Hold on to your hats, the revolution is upon us and gaining momentum.
Filed under: Books, Technology, Writing
March 19, 2009 • 12:57 pm 0
Prof in the News
Our own Prof. Sloan was highlighted in the Law Librarian Blog today for her article, Step Right Up: Using Consumer Decision Making Theory to Teach Research Process in the Electronic Age.
Filed under: Cool links, Law School, Teaching, Technology, legal research
