e-Bibliography for Google Print Controversy

DigitalKoans has a hypertext bibliography for the Google Print controversy. The links will take you to free, full-text Internet articles on the subject. You can check it out here.

Feed Link of the Day – George C. Marshall Center

The George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies has several feeds available. You can subscribe to:

• News Briefs (5 most recent)
  
• Press Releases (5 most recent)
  
• Marshall Center Papers
  
• Conference Reports
  
• US Policy Documentss

Here’s the link to all of those feeds: http://www.marshallcenter.org/site-graphic/lang-en/page-mc-index-1/xdocs/site/rss-info.htm

Westlaw User Guides

You can browse or search West’s free user guides. Most are available in PDF. You can find the general list here. Click here for the list of practice area user guides and here for the Westlaw Litigator guides.

Feed Link of the Day - Officer.com

Officer.com is a law enforcement and police portal. You can subscribe to their feed to get the latest police industry news.

Here's the site: http://www.officer.com

Here's the feed: http://www.officer.com/article/rss/rss_1.xml

GooGhoul

Halloween is one week away. If you’re in the US and looking for some spooky fun, you might want to check out GooGhoul. Just click here, type in your zip code and see what jumps out at you.

Feed Link of the Day - Jurist Current Awareness

I have mentioned some Jurist feeds on AbsTracked before. However, I have not mentioned the multitude of Current Awareness legal news feeds offered. You can choose from current "Hot Topics" like:

• Tom DeLay [ex-US House Majority Leader]
  
• Iraqi Constitution
  
• Harriet Miers [SCOTUS nominee]
  
• Judith Miller [NYT reporter]
  
• Saddam Hussein Trial
  
• Guantanamo
  
• Hurricane Katrina Disaster

You can also choose from a much bigger A-Z Directory of other current news topics. Just click on a topic that interests you and then click on the orange RSS feed button.

Here's where you can access the list of Current Awareness topics:
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/currentawareness/

Call Number Games & Quizzes

Do you know someone who needs a refresher course in understanding Library of Congress and/or SuDoc call numbers? They might as well have some fun doing it. Here are some links to quizzes, games, and tutorials.

Basic instruction:
http://catnet.ksu.edu/help/lccn.html

Basic instruction with a quiz at the end:
http://www.indiana.edu/~libcirc/lcwww/lc.html

Quizzes:
http://people.wcsu.edu/reitzj/lcquiz/lcquiz.html
http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/vl/callno/lcall/lcallquz.htm
http://www.quia.com/rd/14848.html

SuDoc call number quiz:
http://www.lib.msu.edu/publ_ser/docs/student/Manual/quizes/
callnoquiz.html

Game:
http://www.lcsc.edu/library/satchlcall/

UPDATED: 09/06/2007

Feed Link of the Day - American Red Cross

It’s that time again. Time to donate blood. In the process of trying to find the number (you would think I could remember 1-800-GIVE LIFE), I discovered that the Red Cross has feeds. It must not have had them the last time I posted about donating (here) or I surely would have mentioned it! Here are your current feed choices:

• In the News
  
• Disaster News
  
• Biomedical News
  
• International News
  
• Press Releases

Here’s where to obtain those feeds: http://www.redcross.org/websites/rss/

Researching US Treaties and New FOIA Facts

LLRX has a lot of new and revised articles out. The two that stand out for me are the completely revised and updated, "Researching U.S. Treaties and Agreements" by Marci Hoffman and the new FOIA Facts column "FOIA Appeals, the Unspoken Problem" by Scott A. Hodes.

"The Brain Remembers, Even if We Don't"

The Salk Institute has a very interesting press release about recent findings that "your brain cells may 'know' more than you let on by your behavior." The results are published in the October 20, 2005 issue of Neuron pp. 359-371. The article is "Neural Correlates of Knowledge: Stable Representation of Stimulus Associations across Variations in Behavioral Performance" by Adam Messinger, Larry R. Squire, Stuart M. Zola, and Thomas D. Albright. You can read a summary or purchase the article (via Science Direct) here.

You can read the press release (which may be easier on the brain) here.

Feed Link of the Day - The Pocket Part™

I have seen a few bloggers mention The Pocket Part: A Companion to the Yale Law Journal (which is new to the Web), but I haven't seen anyone mention the feed. Here's the site description for The Pocket Part:

"The Pocket Part is the online companion to The Yale Law Journal. As members of the legal community know, legal publications often contain "pocket part" supplements with up-to-date information and commentary. The Pocket Part plays an analogous role. It features op-ed length versions of Journal articles and responses from leading practitioners, policymakers, and scholars. The Pocket Part also serves as a forum for our readers and authors to discuss legal scholarship.

While full-length scholarly works remain at the center of legal debate, students, professors, and practicing lawyers are increasingly turning to the Internet to read about, and comment on, developments in the law. With The Pocket Part, the Journal hopes to combine the strengths of both print and online media, broadening the readership and influence of traditional legal scholarship while enriching the dialogue among the academy, bench, and bar."

Here's the site: http://www.thepocketpart.org/

Here's the feed: http://www.thepocketpart.org/atom.xml

Ten RSS Power User Tips

Check out Steve Rubel's "Ten RSS Hacks" over at Micro Persuasion here.

BOPCRIS

BOPCRIS stands for British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service. It is a free, searchable Internet database of over 38,000 references from the British Official Publications. It spans 1688-1995.

Some full-text documents have been scanned into the system. Those that don't have full-text availability, have detailed abstracts to help searchers find the documents in libraries. Here is where you can search or browse BOPCRIS. Click here to see an example of one of the scanned documents available through the search.

You can also search or browse the 18th century British Parliamentary Papers Digitisation Project (their goal is to create a comprehensive digital library covering 1688-1800) here.

Feed Link of the Day - Wilma

If you are worried about which direction Hurricane Wilma is heading and with what force, you might want to sign up for NOAA's Hurricane Wilma feed. It will update you each time a Public Advisory has been issued.

Unfortunately, you still have to click on the links in the feed to read the Advisories and to view the graphics (I'm hoping they improve that for future feeds). The one feed has both English and Español.

Here's the site: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Here's the feed: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/nhc_at4.xml

Searching the "New" Web

Bonnie Shucha of WisBlawg (who, incidentally was featured in the Law Librarian Blog's Spotlight today) has a really great PowerPoint presentation titled, Searching the "New" Web: Blogs and RSS. It has some good links and is very well organized. It's definitely worth checking out. You can access it via this WisBlawg post.

Feed Link of the Day - US Federal News Radio

As some of you may know, I'm on the verge of transitioning between jobs. I'm leaving the law firm world to return to the federal government. So, it seems appropriate to make the Federal News Radio podcast my FLOTD.

For those of you outside the beltway, district, country...Federal News Radio is "WFED in Washington, D.C. covering both the federal government and those who do business with the government concentrating on management, procurement, technology, security, policy and pay and benefits." I wish they had a text feed, but it looks like the podcast will have to suffice for now. You can get text feed for the Washington Post's Federal Page, though.

Here's the Federal News Radio site:
http://www.federalnewsradio.com

Here's the Federal News Radio podcast feed: http://www.federalnewsradio.com/rss/podcast_update.php

Here's the Washington Post's Federal Page feed:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/rss/politics/fedpage/index.xml

The Sedona Principles

You can access The Sedona Principles: Best Practices Recommendations & Principles for Addressing Electronic Document Production from The Sedona Conference here. Click here to link directly to the 82 page PDF. You can also access the 118 page PDF of The Sedona Guidelines: Best Practice Guidelines & Commentary for Managing Information & Records in the Electronic Age here.

Feed Link of the Day - F-D-C Reports

If you subscribe to some of F-D-C Reports publications, like "The Pink Sheet," you will be happy to hear that they now have headline and article abstract feeds available.

Subscribers can simply click on the title of the article in the feed and enter their login and password to read the full text. You can currently get feeds for:

Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology

• "The Pink Sheet"
  
• Pharmaceutical Approvals Monthly
  
• Health News Daily
  
• Medicare Drug Focus
  
  Medical Devices & Diagnostics
  
• "The Gray Sheet"
  
  Consumer Products
  
• "The Tan Sheet"
  
• "The Rose Sheet"
  
  Health Policy & Biomedical Research
  
• Research Policy ALERT
  

Go to the F-D-C Reports Web site and then click on the name of the publication that interests you. You'll see the orange XML button in the upper right-hand corner of the main page for that publication. Click on it for the feed.

Here's the site: http://www.fdcreports.com/

Here's "The Pink Sheet" feed: http://www.thepinksheet.com/fdcreports/rss/getRSS.do

Federal Filings Alert™

Federal Filings Alert is a weekly index of selected new cases filed in the US District Courts. It is produced each Monday by WANT Publishing Co.

You can click on the case links to view the docket sheets. The dockets link into Pacer and you will need your Pacer login to access the linked docket items.

Here's where to access Federal Filings Alert. Wouldn't it be nice if they added feed for this?

UPDATE: The link to this site has been deleted because the domain is now (09/01/2007) a pop-up "spam" site.

Feed Link of the Day - ABA Site-tation

I just ran across the ABA Site-tation site this evening. I looked at the recent posts and a lot of them look familiar. However, the wonderful thing about blawgs/blogs is how much they evolve over time. I think it's worth subscribing to see where they go with this. The concept, "New or useful websites of interest to attorneys and other legal professionals, and legal technology news and highlights" is certainly a good one. : )

Here's the site: http://meetings.abanet.org/ltrc/index.cfm

Here's the feed: http://meetings.abanet.org/ltrc/rss.cfm

Bloglines Separates New & Saved Posts

Bloglines has made a few changes. One of those changes was adding hotkeys. The new hotkeys are: j - next article; k - previous article; s - next sub; f - next folder; A - read all; r - refresh left pane. I think that's kind of interesting. I might use the "r" key from time to time.

The change I really like, though, is on the highlighted "new item" count on the left screen. Now, if AbsTracked has 3 new items and you look at them and mark one to read later (by checking the "keep new" box on the right), instead of showing (1), it shows (0:1). It differentiates between new posts and posts you've saved to view later. That's a huge plus in my opinion.

Blake Carver Says "our future is digital"

Blake Carver of LISNews fame begins a recent post,

"I have recently become convinced our future is digital."

You can read and respond to "Libraries and Librarians In A Digital Future: Where Do We Fit?" here.

Google Librarian Center

Thanks to Peter Scott for pointing out that Google has a "Librarian Center." Google says,

"Librarians and Google share a mission: to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. We support librarians like yourself who work each day to further that mission. This page is a first step toward improving and expanding that support."

They will be launching a quarterly newsletter "just for librarians" in the next few months. You can subscribe to the "Google Librarians" mailing list here.

Feed Link of the Day - Online Books Page

Gary Price at SearchEngineWatch points out that The Online Books Page (OBP) has feed for free online book titles that have recently been added to or revised in the OBP index.

Here's the site: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.html

Here's the new listing feed: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/newrss.xml

'05-'06 US Government Manual Available

You can now search the new 2005-2006 U.S. Government Manual online at GPO here and browse the PDF and text pages here.

Eur-Lex

Eur-Lex is a portal to European Union law. Through Eur-Lex, you can currently access over 300,000 documents in multiple languages. The documents include treaties, secondary legislation, international agreements, preparatory acts, case law and parliamentary questions. Here is the link to Eur-Lex in English.

Feed Link of the Day - eHub

Emily Chang's eHub is "a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing." Do you dare not subscribe?

Here's the site: http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub/

Here's the feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/eHub

2005 AALL Salary Survey Now Available

The American Association of Law Libraries' (AALL) 2005 Biennial Salary Survey and Organizational Characteristics is now available for free in the members-only section of aallnet.org. Non-members and members can purchase a hardcopy and members can access the online version for free here.

Feed Link of the Day - ProBonoLaw

The ABA Section of Litigation's feed announced yesterday that probonolaw blog (written by John Mathias) is now live. Monday's probonolaw post says:

"We are interested in identifying and praising pro bono lawyers and bringing attention to the clients and causes they serve. We will focus upon lawyers, cases, essays, and other information related to pro bono work and its place in our society. Please help us by spreading the word about this new blog and by directing information to us which is consistent with our mission"

So, I'm spreading the word.

Here's the site: http://probonolaw.blogspot.com/

Here's the feed: http://probonolaw.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Institutional Holders Search

One way to find top stock holders for a public company is to go to the Institutional Holders and Insider Search on the NASDAQ Web site. Click here to check it out. The information is obtained from EDGAR Online, Inc. If you want a sample search, "Gates, William" is a good one to try.

Feed Link of the Day - Patent Baristas

Patent Baristas describes itself as "Bio/Pharma Patent News. Freshly brewed chat served up daily featuring biotechnology and pharmaceutical patent law news and commentary." The baristas are Stephen Albainy-Jenei and Karlyn Schnapp, both of the Ohio law firm of Frost Brown Todd LLC.

Make sure you check out the site as well as the feed. If the site doesn't make you want to run out for a cup of coffee, nothing will.

Here's the site: http://patentbaristas.com/

Here's the feed: http://www.patentbaristas.com/index.xml

Free CourtLink® "Document Finder" Trial

LexisNexis® CourtLink® has a new "Document Finder" feature. You can search federal district court dockets for specific online documents. The new feature is available for free to CourtLink® users through the end of October. You can read more about the free promotion and what they're raffling off at the Infopro site here.

Top 10 Web Design Mistakes 2005

You can read Jakob Nielsen's new "Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005" here. He tried something new this year by asking for reader input. The results were no different from what he has found in the past. The old mistakes continue.

It's Paralegal Week!

I learned today that this week, October 2-8, 2005 has been designated Paralegal Week in Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia. So, it might be a good time to thank all of those hard working paralegals with whom we work. You can find out more about Paralegal Week here.

Feed Link of the Day - GigaLaw

GigaLaw.com is a site run by attorney, Doug Isenberg. Isenberg bills it as "Legal Information for Internet Professionals."

Here's the site: http://www.gigalaw.com/index.html

Here's the blog feed: http://www.gigalaw.com/blogrss/index.xml

Here's the Daily News feed: http://www.gigalaw.com/newsrss/blogger_rss.xml