Category Archives: Databases

LexisNexis Launches “Social Media Visibility”

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Online provider of legal research, news and other content LexisNexis, has launched a new service: LexisNexis Social Media Visibility.

According to the press release here, the new service enables solo practitioners and lawyers at smaller law firms to establish a solid, comprehensive, and manageable social media presence.

LexisNexis Social Media Visibility includes creation of an exclusive blog page as well as guidance and assistance in crafting profiles and in generating and posting appropriate content on major social media websites, including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Cross-posted on Law Library Blog.

LexisNexis Updates Free Caselaw and Forms from lexisONE Community to LexisNexis Community

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LexisNexis has recently updated its free caselaw and forms access from lexisONE Community to:

LexisNexis Community

For links to some other free legal research resources (for caselaw, statutes, regulations, etc) online, take a look too at:

Brief Guide to Low/No Cost Online American Legal Research

Cross-posted at Law Library Blog.

Maplecroft Human Rights Risk Index 2012

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Specialist multidisciplinary research (in risk intelligence and corporate responsibility) and advisory company Maplecroft, headquartered in Bath, England, has released its:

Human Rights Risk Map 2012

Cross-posted on Law Library Blog.

LexisNexis Introduces CourtLink Hourly Alerts

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LexisNexis has announced that its docket service product CourtLink is now offering hourly alerts on newly-filed federal cases — please see:

Reed Elsevier plc : LexisNexis Introduces CourtLink Hourly Alerts

Cross-posted at Law Library Blog.

California Judicial Council agrees to explore accepting private grant money for computerized case management in 3 superior courts

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California’s Judicial Council is exploring whether to accept private grant money (perhaps as much as $20 million) to help deploy its computerized case management system in three superior courts.

The three superior courts will be in:

  1. San Luis Obispo County
  2. Ventura County
  3. Fresno County

Please see:

Judicial Council approves possible private
funding for case management system

Cross-posted at Law Library Blog.

Constitution Explorer Project

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Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) and Program on Liberation Technology are creating a database of constitutions searchable by subject. They are working on building a taxonomy and tagging individual articles and sections from foreign constitutions. When the database is finished, it should nicely complement  Hein’s Constitutions of the World Illustrated and Richmond’s Constitution Finder.

If you are in the bay area this weekend and wish to support this project, CDDRL is organizing an International Constitution Day volunteer session on Saturday, November 12th at Stanford.

See the following link for additional information:
http://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/6902

Cooperative Agreement between Digital Public Library of America & Europeana

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Two of the world’s principal digital library networks — the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and Europeana have announced an agreement to collaborate to make more cultural heritage materials available:

Digital Public Library of America and Europeana Announce Collaboration

A Statement of Common Principles: DPLA-Europeana
The Digital Public Library of America and Europeana share a common goal: to make the riches of libraries, museums, and archives available, free of charge, to everyone in the world. They will be guided in this mission by the following principles.

  1. They will make their systems and data interoperable to the greatest possible extent.
  2. They will promote open access to the greatest possible extent through joint existing and new policies concerning content, data, and metadata.
  3. They will collaborate regularly in developing specific aspects of their systems, beginning with:

Cross-posted at Law Library Blog.

Mobile PACER Case Locator

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Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) , the electronic public access service that allows users to obtain case and docket information from federal appellate, district and bankruptcy courts, has just added a mobile Web version of the PACER case locator function. This new version is accessible using Apple computer devises such as iPads and iPhones, as well as using Android devices (version 2.2 or higher).

See here for the announcement of the Mobile PACER Case Locator, which can be obtained by visiting: here.

Cross-posted at Law Library Blog.

Institutional Repository (IR) and ETD (Electronic Theses & Dissertations) Bibliography 2011

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The Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 presents over 600 English-language articles, books, technical reports, and other works that are useful in understanding institutional repositories and ETDs. This selective bibliography covers IR country and regional surveys, multiple-institution repositories, specific IRs, IR digital preservation issues, IR library issues, IR metadata strategies, institutional open access mandates and policies, IR R&D projects, IR research studies, IR open source software (OSS) and electronic theses and dissertations.

Hat tip to: ResourceShelf.com.

Cross-posted at: Law Library Blog.