That’s the question Gary Price asks in a guest appearance over at SearchDay. Gary previews the Online Books Page, A searchable and browseable collection of over 18,000 English works in various formats that are all free for personal, noncommercial use.
Useful Web Sites
Achieve compliance from your desktop
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Legal Research Sites, Useful Web Sites
With strict new compliance rules being implemented by the likes of Sarbanes-Oxley, companies that offer training in the new rules are enjoying a booming business. Bob Ambrogi of the LawSites blawg has an article on Law.com on companies that provide online compliance training.
Pay up to get quality medical information
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Useful Web Sites
I speak often about the fact that there are thousands of so-called “medical” websites on the Internet, and not much in the way of quality control. A new article from the New York Times describes new services that, for a fee ranging from $150 to $500, will find quality medical information for you. Hmmm.
A Bloggish Colorado Law News Site
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Legal Research Sites, Useful Web Sites
The Virtual Chase reports on Law Week Colorado, which replaces Colorado Journal. The site regularly reports on news of interest to Colorado lawyers, much like a weblog. Sadly, to read the headlines you have to subscribe to the service.
Great resource on Internet taxation
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Legal Research Sites, Useful Web Sites
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)
News site brings you the world
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Useful Web Sites
Chris Sherman reported in SearchDay yesterday about WorldNews.com, a pretty impressive collection of news links from around the world. If you want to narrow your focus to a particular world region, check out The World News Network.
Have your flight status delivered to you
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Useful Web Sites
Considering yesterday is traditionally the busiest travel day of the year, this is probably a day too late, but check out the New York Times’ review of flight status notification systems. Just go to the airline website, find your flight, and you can get a voice or text messsage sent to you just prior…
MIT Plans Huge Digital Repository
By Tom Mighell on
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.
Compare old web pages
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Software, Useful Web Sites
Have you used the Wayback Engine yet? If not, what are you waiting for? It’s a great way to view old, no-longer-used web pages. Now, you can use a program called DocuComp to instantly identify the differences between any two historical web pages versions in the archive. Very cool.
Best sites for business
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Useful Web Sites
Time Magazine has a nice listing of the most useful sites for business people who don’t have time to search for them on their own. (Via The Virtual Chase)