To follow up on yesterday’s report that Michigan is revisiting the issue of Internet sales taxes, here’s a terrific set of E-commerce taxation links maintained by San Jose State University Professor Annette Nellen (Via beSpacific)
Legal Research Sites
Best of the Web
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Bob Ambrogi, host of the Lawsites weblog, has this nice roundup of some of the best new legal websites of 2002. Included in the article are many sites mentioned here and in the Internet Legal Research Weekly, including How Appealing, SCOTUSBlog, the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, the Women’s Law Initiative,…
The dangers of too much knowledge
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Posted in Internet and Technology Law, Legal Research Sites
A few months ago I signed up for the Accurint service, and it is terrific — I can access background information on opposing parties, or my own clients. When I registered for the service, I was told that Accurint reserved the right to audit my records to make sure that I was using the service…
If you’re in the mood to read economic statistics today…
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The National Governors’ Association has released its Fiscal Survey of States, a 68-page report just chock-full of state budget information.
Learn more about the Internet Archive
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Posted in Legal Research Sites
I’ve written about the Internet Archive, or Wayback Machine, on many occasions. If you’re interested, check out this tour of the massive archiving project. (Via The ResourceShelf)
New name, same great information
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Gary Price has renamed his Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk — now it’s simply known as The Resource Shelf. That’s the only change. All the other good stuff stays the same.
Two new blawgs hit the blogosphere
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging, Legal Research Sites
Two new law blogs came to my attention this week — first is LawSites, presenting “new and intriguing websites for the legal profession.” The site is hosted by Bob Ambrogi, who has long been prominent in Internet legal research circles, but is new to the blogging community. He’s the author of The Essential Guide…
New tool for medical researchers
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Does anyone here use PubMed? The service from the National Library of Medicine offers access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations dating back to the 1960’s. Library Techlog reports the launching of a new search interface for PubMed, which also allows you to create an RSS feed of your query. What this means is…
Opinion on Posting of Model Codes
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Posted in Legal Research Sites
In the October 20 issue of the Newsletter, I mentioned a site that dealt with model codes, including building, electrical, fire, and other codes — I also mentioned that a lot of these codes are not online, due to publishing restrictions.
Well, it seems somebody wasn’t happy with that particular publishing monopoly, and decided to
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MIT Plans Huge Digital Repository
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Posted in Legal Research Sites, Useful Web Sites
Every year, researchers at MIT create tens of thousands of documents, images, data collections and other items of interest that never see the outside of their individual computers. Now, MIT plans to create DSpace, a Web-based institutional repository where faculty and researchers can save their intellectual output and share it with others.