The non-profit organization MapLight has posted webpages as to the U.S. Congress and certain state legislatures (California and Wisconsin) regarding money’s influence on politics:
See also here.
Hat tip to Resource Shelf.
LexisNexis has recently updated its free caselaw and forms access from lexisONE Community to:
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.
The Public Access to Legal Information (PALI) Committee of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries (SOCALL) has posted online its handy and valuable:
Locating the Law: A Handbook for Non-Law Librarians
Fifth Edition, Revised (2011)
Cross-posted at Law Library Blog.
International Conference on Access to Legal Information & Research in the Digital Age (ICALIRDA 2012)
February 29 – March 2, 2012
Organizers:
National Law University, Delhi
SAARC Law
Mohan Law House
Location:
Auditorium, National Law University, Delhi
Sector-14, Dwarka, New Delhi-110078 India
Main Theme:
International Conference on Access to Legal Information & Research in the Digital Age
(29 Feb-02 March 2012)
Sub Themes:
* Legal Education and Research: Current Development in Digital Age
* Role of ICT in Development of Comparative Jurisprudence
* International Law and Globalization in Digital Age
* Current Trends in Legal Publishing :IPR Issues & Challenges
* Licensing for Digital Resources
* Best Practices of Information & Knowledge Management in Libraries
* Open Access Initiatives and Scholarly Publishing
* Free Access to Law Movement: National & International Perspective
* Access, Authorization and Authentication of Digital Web Information
* Role, Relevancy and Research: Online Legal Databases
For additional information contact the Conference Convener, Priya Rai:
Ms. Priya Rai
Deputy Librarian,
Justice T.P.S.Chawla Library,
National Law University Delhi,
Sec-14 Dwarka, New Delhi-110078
Tel: 011-24533441,09811260504
icalirda2012@gmail.com
http://www.nludelhi.ac.in
hat tip to Aru Satkalmi.
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.
According to a Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project national survey, “Americans and Their Cell Phones” (August 15, 2011), mobile telephones have become a near-ubiquitous tool for information seeking and communicating in the United States.
The survey shows that 83% of American adults own some kind of cell phone and that these devices have an impact on many aspects of their owners’ daily lives.
Hat tip to DocuTicker.com.
Cross-posted at Law Library Blog.
The American Automobile Association (AAA or “Triple A”) has released its latest edition of the venerable and valuable Digest of Motor Laws.
The digest is “an online compendium of laws and rules related to driving and owning a motor vehicle in the United States and Canada.”
It is possible browse each state’s traffic laws, driver’s license, vehicle titling and registration requirements, and fees and taxes.
It is also possible to compare specific laws or requirements across multiple jurisdictions — see here.
Hat tip to DocuTicker.com.
Cross-posted on Law Library Blog.
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina (E.D.N.C.) has posted a number of interesting materials regarding the Additional Stakeholders Functional Requirements Group (ASFRG) for Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) and the project for the “CM/ECF Next Generation.”
Please see here.
The materials include two presentations as well as three different surveys.
Please see:
The World eBook Fair runs July 4-August 4, 2011.
The fair’s aim is to provide free public access for a month to some 6.5 million eBooks.
Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive are both contributing organizations.
Each will be presenting a number of items in other media during 2011 — such as music, movies, artwork, and dance choreography.
The available collections include reference books and scientific items, as well as approximately 50,000 music entries (on top of 12,000 that debuted last year).
All are welcome to join the World Public Library for an annual membership of US$8.95 per year.
Members can download from a selection of about 2 million PDF eBooks.
Hat tip to ResourceShelf.com.
See also: World eBook Fair – 6.5 million ebooks available through August 4th
Cross-posted on Law Library Blog.
Judy Janes and Marissa Andrea just published a good article on open access law journals. Their article, “One Journal at a Time,” includes a few paragraphs providing “a brief history of open access.” In addition, they comment upon how “the success of RSS feeds, SSRN alerts and SMARTCILP/CLJC email updates has further accelerated the transition to Open Access journals.”
In their “Learn More” section of the article they link to a video presentation where Dick “Danner discusses Open Access and the Durham Statement and also his paper entitled “The Durham Statement on Open Access One Year Later: Preservation and Access to Legal Scholarship” available at SSRN.”
Other resources linked in the Janes and Andrea article include:
Directory of Open Access Journals
Science Commons Open Access Law Project
and
New York Law School list of law reviews with online content
This movement will benefit us all, as Janes and Andrea state it:
. . . As more journals become available on the Internet through an initiative called Open Access, published legal scholarship — once only available in print form from law libraries, or online through proprietary databases — will reach a wider audience. This is a movement not only benefiting practicing attorneys, but historians, scholars and members of the public with legal research interests, who will be able to access legal scholarship by simply googling a topic.
