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My home state of Pennsylvania has finally joined the rest of the country in posting its statutes and legislative activity online:
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/PUBLIC/cons_index.cfm
Thanks to Genie Tyburski’s TVC Alert for the heads up!
*For those of you who need an explanation for this reference, please see http://politicalhumor.about.com/cs/georgewbush/a/top10bushisms.htm for details.
At the risk of sounding like a press release, I wanted to point out to everyone this new resource from BusinessWeek magazine.
The Company Insight Center, available at investing.businessweek.com, is designed to “pull together up to 33 pages of data, charts, profiles, and new stories on each of 42,000 public companies in the US and abroad” [...]
Click on the picture to see the full view.
Just heard about this resource from Thomson Gale this a.m. on the drive into work:
AccessMyLibrary – News, Research, and Information that Libraries Trust
“…free access to millions of articles from top publications available at your local library.”
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I was very sorry to read tonight about the demise of another great tool that I use as part of my research arsenal on a daily basis. The Israeli company Netsnippets announced on their website that they are going out of business, although apparently they will still be providing technical support via e-mail to current [...]
Many legal professionals would agree that the day can’t come soon enough…..
Content Analyst, Public Sector – Mountain View or Washington D.C.
The fine folks at Justia (my favorite legal website) yesterday announced a new free service that contains information on recently filed federal civil cases.
From the press release:
“The Federal District Court filings are categorized by State, Federal
District Court and Legal Practice Area, and include the presiding judge
[...]
Hmmm…not quite sure what to think about this one yet.
On the one hand, I’m a big fan of the idea put forward by James Surowiecki in his great book The Wisdom of Crowds, which argues that the collective is smarter than any one individual.
On the other hand, I run a business that provides paid research [...]
Books are my favorite things, and librarians are some of my favorite people (which is why I hope to be joining their ranks soon…wish me luck!) So I seem to read quite a few articles like this one from today’s Boston Globe about how libraries are becoming more like Starbucks, and less like the more [...]
I believe that Styx said it best: “Too much time on their hands”
May 9, 2007 in Commentary, Research Stuff
According to the front page of today’s Wall Street Journal, “You’re a nobody unless your name Googles well”-I introduce you to Abigail Wilson, a woman apparently so traumatized by the fact that her new married name cannot be found in Google, she is planning on inflicting the following on her soon-to-be born child:
So when Ms. [...]