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Category: legal publishing and information
Google settles legal dispute with publishers
On Thursday, October 4, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google Inc. announced a settlement in their seven year old litigation over Google’s massive book scanning and digital library building project. The AAP sued in 2005 when Google began its project to build a digital library by scanning and making available digital copies of previously copyrighted works. …Read the Rest…
Oxford University Press Journals leave Westlaw
Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports has been reporting on the August 1, 2012 removal of a number of Oxford University Press (OUP) journals from the Westlaw database to Lexis-Nexis. Law professors and practitioners in the United States are concerned that this change will alter article impact citation counts and journal rankings. Rhodri Jackson at OUP explains …Read the Rest…
Legal Publishing: Hot Topics
The Supreme Court’s announcement of its Affordable Care Act (ACA) decision undoubtedly inspired a greater-than-normal interest in the Taxing and Spending Clause among the masses. The Supreme Court’s website is a great source of official documents. News sources provide instantaneous, if necessarily cursory, coverage. SCOTUSblog and WSJ Law blog provide excellent “real time” and “soon …Read the Rest…
American Libraries’ E-Content Supplement May/June 2012
The American Library Association (ALA) has just released an e-content supplement to American Libraries: Magazine of the American Library Association. The supplement, E-Content: The Digital Dialogue, takes a close look at topics such as the publisher’s view of e-books; user’s rights and censorship concerns; and expanding e-book access. Sari Feldman, Executive Director of the Cuyahoga …Read the Rest…
Free Resources: Lawyer Directories
Undoubtedly, many law students are treated to a lawyer war story or two, often courtesy of an adjunct law professor. Rarer, though perhaps equally fearsome, is a law-librarian war story about a classic print legal research research tool that may or may not have successfully transmogrified into the digital legal research space. Attorney directories are one …Read the Rest…
Google settles legal dispute with publishers
On Thursday, October 4, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google Inc. announced a settlement in their seven year old litigation over Google’s massive book scanning and digital library building project. The AAP sued in 2005 when Google began its project to build a digital library by scanning and making available digital copies of previously copyrighted works. …Read the Rest…
Oxford University Press Journals leave Westlaw
Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports has been reporting on the August 1, 2012 removal of a number of Oxford University Press (OUP) journals from the Westlaw database to Lexis-Nexis. Law professors and practitioners in the United States are concerned that this change will alter article impact citation counts and journal rankings. Rhodri Jackson at OUP explains …Read the Rest…
Legal Publishing: Hot Topics
The Supreme Court’s announcement of its Affordable Care Act (ACA) decision undoubtedly inspired a greater-than-normal interest in the Taxing and Spending Clause among the masses. The Supreme Court’s website is a great source of official documents. News sources provide instantaneous, if necessarily cursory, coverage. SCOTUSblog and WSJ Law blog provide excellent “real time” and “soon …Read the Rest…
American Libraries’ E-Content Supplement May/June 2012
The American Library Association (ALA) has just released an e-content supplement to American Libraries: Magazine of the American Library Association. The supplement, E-Content: The Digital Dialogue, takes a close look at topics such as the publisher’s view of e-books; user’s rights and censorship concerns; and expanding e-book access. Sari Feldman, Executive Director of the Cuyahoga …Read the Rest…
Free Resources: Lawyer Directories
Undoubtedly, many law students are treated to a lawyer war story or two, often courtesy of an adjunct law professor. Rarer, though perhaps equally fearsome, is a law-librarian war story about a classic print legal research research tool that may or may not have successfully transmogrified into the digital legal research space. Attorney directories are one …Read the Rest…