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February 2002
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Not All Laws Are Free: The Importance of the Veeck Case When it comes to legal issues, an erroneous assumption older than the Internet appears: The text of all laws is free of copyright and may be copied and/or distributed freely...   |
Information Today
June 30, 2008
Paula J. Hane |
LexisNexis Moves Into the Public Library Market In what has to be viewed as a surprisingly low-key launch for a product in a brand new market, LexisNexis rather quietly announced its new Library Express service. |
Searcher
April 2006
Carol Ebbinghouse |
The People's Law: Free Legal Help and Legal Research on the Web Many sites and organizations have demonstrated a high level of commitment to providing quality legal services and information for the lay person in English as well as other languages. |
Information Today
August 23, 2010
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Law.Gov Issues Principles and Declaration The founder of Law.Gov, Carl Malamud believes everyone should be able to find the laws that affect them. |
Information Today
October 7, 2014
Nancy K. Herther |
European Law Works to Move Copyright Into the 21st Century The European Court of Justice ruled that libraries, "for the purpose of research or private study," can digitize works as a legitimate fair use exemption to European Union copyright law, with some specific limitations. |
Information Today
November 19, 2009
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Judicial Opinions Now Available in Google Scholar For the lay public, it is fun to search opinions because you not only get judges explaining how a particular law is applied to certain facts in the case, but you also get links to law journals and treatises citing the case and "related scholarly works" |
Information Today
April 30, 2012
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Look for Circulating Law Ebooks at a Library Near You LexisNexis and OverDrive announced that they have agreed to create customized ebook lending and management services, offering "the largest collection of authoritative legal ebook content on all major mobile devices and desktop platforms." |
Searcher
August 2001
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Portals to the Future of Legal Information Now established commercial online services have begun to join the "free" portal movement... |
Searcher
March 2005
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories. |
Information Today
March 25, 2013
George H. Pike |
A 'Total Victory' for the First Sale Doctrine from the Supreme Court In a powerful and conclusive opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that copyright's First Sale doctrine applies to all legal copyrighted works regardless of where they are manufactured. |
Searcher
April 2012
Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
Searcher
January 2004
Carol Ebbinghouse |
If at First You Don't Succeed, Stop! Proposed legislation to set up new intellectual property right in facts themselves |
Information Today
April 21, 2015
George H. Pike |
May 1 Named National Day of PACER Protest Advocates for free access to legal information on the internet have proposed May 1 as the National Day of PACER Protest to encourage the federal courts to remove cost barriers to a wealth of information from the nation's courts. |
Information Today
March 9, 2009
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Supreme Court to Review Jurisdiction in Freelance Writers Case `Settlement' Freelancers take publishers to court to get compensation for their articles being downloaded from archives. |
Information Today
February 12, 2009
Carol Ebbinghouse |
The Latest in Lawyer Directories--You Won't Believe the Information You Can Get Now! There was a time when the only authoritative source of information on attorneys in the U.S. was the massive, multivolume Martindale-Hubbell Directory. |
Information Today
October 28, 2014
George H. Pike |
Appeals Court Reverses Georgia State Fair Use Decision A federal appellate court reversed a fair use finding in favor of Georgia State University in its long-standing copyright dispute with several academic publishers. |
Information Today
August 20, 2007
Carol Ebbinghouse |
American Law Reports to Be an Exclusive on Westlaw Westlaw pulls American Law Review content from competitor LexisNexis, in the on-going battle for content among the two remaining legal information empires. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2014 |
In Brief and In the News Federal Grants of $30 Million Awarded to Support Museums across the U.S... Knowledge Managers' New Role in Making Open Scholarship Mainstream... 2014 Digital Preservation Training Needs Assessment Survey... |
Information Today
October 18, 2010
Carol Ebbinghouse |
New Platform, New Product Mix, New Market, New Pricing -- LexisNexis Advance LexisNexis is targeting the solo and microfirms with the new Lexis Advance. These lawyers don't have librarians or law libraries. |
Information Today
July 18, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Graphical KeyCite is a new service that provides a graphical representation of a court case's direct history... Endeca Latitude, a business intelligence search platform, is being enriched with the help of Oculus... LexisNexis is improving its legal search service... |
Information Today
February 4, 2013 |
Expanded Access to U.S. Federal Court Opinions A pilot project giving the public free, text-searchable, online access to court opinions now is available to all federal appellate, district, and bankruptcy courts. |
Information Today
September 17, 2007
Paula J. Hane |
LexisNexis Adds TotalPatent to Its Suite of Solutions Against the backdrop of new technology patent infringement claims and Congress voting on changes to the U.S. patent law, LexisNexis introduced a new tool for patent professionals -- patent attorneys, information professionals, researchers, and engineers. |
D-Lib
February 2008
Datema et al. |
In Brief Getting the most out of your institutional repository... Science assets of the digital age at risk... Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement: a documentary history... etc. |
Information Today
July 7, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Ebook Developments Were HOT at ALA At the recent American Library Association Annual conference, it's clear that librarians are focused on embracing the expanding digital world and specifically on providing ebooks as part of library services. |
Information Today
September 22, 2011
Nancy K. Herther |
Authors Take Libraries to Court in Face Off on Copyright Issues On Sept. 12, eight authors -- including James Shapiro and Fay Weldon -- along with three key organizations representing authors in North America and Australia -- filed suit to stop academic libraries from their participation in HathiTrust digitization projects |
Information Today
March 25, 2010 |
Judicial Conference Approves Public Access Improvements to PACER The Judicial Conference of the United States has approved key steps to improve public access to federal courts by increasing the availability of court opinions. |
D-Lib
April 2001 |
To the Editor In response to the opinion piece, The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the "Big Deal"... |
Information Today
December 2003 |
NewsBytes Taylor & Francis Buys Swets & Zeitlinger... Openly Informatics Partners with Sirsi... State of Ohio Recognizes LexisNexis U.S.... Swets Blackwell Achieves COUNTER Level 2 Compliance... etc. |
Searcher
April 2007
Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project. |
Information Today
November 19, 2013
George H. Pike |
Google's Fair Use Defense Prevails in Google Books Lawsuit A federal court in New York gave Google a huge victory that may likely end its 9-year fight with the Authors Guild and individual authors over the Google Books scanning project. |
Information Today
March 31, 2011
George H. Pike |
Google Book Settlement Rejected: What's Next? Last week's rejection of the proposed settlement of the lawsuit between Google and a group of authors and publishers has thrown the future of the Google Book database into question. |
Information Today
Miguel Ramos |
Katrina Relief and Outreach Developments A roundup of links to relief and outreach responses from library groups and information industry organizations. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2011 |
In Brief SEALS: Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale... Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award 2012... New library study: demand up for technology, budget cuts limit access... |
| D-Lib |
In Brief and In the News Harnessing the Cognitive Surplus of the Nation by Crowdsourcing... Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance receives implementation funding from the Mellon Foundation... Content from European National and Research Libraries Now Available through New Portal for Researchers... |
D-Lib
November 2006 |
In Brief PLANETS: Preservation and Long-term Access through NETworked Services... ASCB Launches Cell Biology Image & Video Library... CrossRef Extends Web Services - New OAI-PMH Interface, and Partnerships with Scirus and EMBL-EBI... etc. |
Searcher
December 2011
Charles Hamaker |
FEATURE: Ebooks on Fire: Controversies Surrounding Ebooks in Libraries While it might not matter to the occasional or recreational reader, the ebook presents a host of challenges for the role of the book as transmitter, carrier, and shaper of our written word cultural heritage. |
Information Today
June 3, 2010
Barbara Quint |
Public Library Complete (PLC) from ebrary Offers Ebooks and More This includes includes more than 20,000 ebooks from leading publishers with more ebooks coming into the package every day-at no additional cost to subscribing libraries. |
Information Today
April 25, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Simon & Schuster Joins `Big 6' in Moving Ebooks Into Libraries On April 15, 2013, Simon & Schuster became the last of the "Big Six" (now actually five with the merger of Random House and Penguin) publishers to dip their toes into the waters of ebook sales to libraries. |
Information Today
March 2004 |
NewsBytes Thomson Delphion Enhances European Patent Data Analysis... Ingenta, EBSCO Launch Subscription Initiative... EBSCO Celebrates 60 Years of Business... etc. |
Information Today
February 4, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
Thomson Reuters Launches WestlawNext--The Next Chapter in Legal Research The goal is to make legal professionals more efficient and give them the confidence that they've explored every relevant document. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2002
Patricia Fravel Vander Meer |
Click to Criminal Justice This listing highlights a sampling of critical or unique Web sites for a varied audience seeking criminal justice information. This includes professionals in criminal justice, law, and the government, as well as students, educators, librarians, and the general public. |
Searcher
May 2010
Matarazzo & Pearlstein |
Survival Lessons for Libraries: Staying Afloat in Turbulent Waters -- News/Media Libraries Hit Hard A discussion of the events and circumstances affecting media organizations and their libraries under difficult economic conditions. |
Information Today
June 30, 2003
Barbara Quint |
Public Libraries Face Net Filtering Following Supreme Court Decision The Children's Internet Protection Act, which mandates that libraries accepting federal funding to assist patrons with Internet access must use Net filters to block pornography, has withstood legal challenge. Across the country, public librarians began to struggle with its ramifications. |
Searcher
May 2002
Linnea Christiani |
Meeting the New Challenges and LexisNexis Post-SIIA Summit Interviews with Michael Wilens and Lisa Mitnick... |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2009 |
In Brief European initiative to facilitate access to research data... Nevada's statewide digital initiative... The Mark Twain's Mississippi project... Council of Science editors honors CrossRef... etc. |
Information Today
June 24, 2014
George H. Pike |
First Sale Hearing Raises Questions on Kirtsaeng and Digital Goods A congressional hearing on the future of the first sale doctrine produced great discussion but little consensus on whether Congress should modify the doctrine in response to the Supreme Court's decision. |
Information Today
July 3, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Thomson Gale Extends AccessMyLibrary.com Service... Alacra Offers Premium Content Web Feeds... LexisNexis Launches Advanced Government Solutions... |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2003 |
Industry News Nstein Expands Product Lines... Open Source in Sweden... LexisNexis has entered into a publishing agreement with IndexMaster... West has acquired Andrews Publications from Haights Cross Communications... etc. |
Information Today
October 13, 2008
Carol Ebbinghouse |
FindLaw's New Case Summaries Through RSS Feeds The summaries are written by attorney-editors at the Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters of FindLaw, tagged by jurisdiction and law topic. |
D-Lib
June 2004
Norbert Lossau |
Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet If libraries do not want to become marginalized in a key area of their traditional services, they need to acknowledge the challenges that come with the globalization of scholarly information, the existence and further growth of the academic internet . |
