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Google has just announced that the full text of federal and state court opinions can be searched and read through Google Scholar.  For more information, see the announcement from the Official Google Blog.


HT: Law Librarian Blog

West's Nutshell Series has long provided succinct, accessible explanations of the law written by recognized experts.  They can be helpful as study aids or as introductions to unfamiliar areas of the law.

The library recently put the most current edition of all of our Nutshells on reserve at the Circulation Desk in order to make them more accessible to students.  To see all of the Nutshell titles we own, click here.  You can also search for a Nutshell on a particular topic by doing a keyword search in POLAR, such as "torts and nutshell."

Older editions of our Nutshells can still be found in the library stacks.

The law library recently added two new collections to its HeinOnline subscription.  The first,titled the National Moot Court Competition collection, contains the records, briefs, and other organizational materials of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York National Moot Court Competition.  This collection will allow users to view award-winning responses to competition problems dating back to 1950, the first year that this competition was held nationally.

The second collection is entitled Subject Compilations of State Laws and is a digitized version of a series of the same name by Cheryl A. Nyberg at the University of Washington Law Library.  According to HeinOnline, this database "...contains references to more than 18,000 sources of 50-state surveys include law review articles, books, court briefs and opinions, federal and state government publications, looseleaf services, LexisNexis and Westlaw documents, and websites."  More information about this collection can be found here.

Both of these collections can be accessed through the library's HeinOnline subscription, available on the Library Subcription Services page.

If you already use the Firefox browser, you know that one of the great things about it is the ability to customize your browsing experience through the use of extensions or add-ons.  One extension that could be especially helpful for legal researchers is Jureeka! 

Jureeka! is an extension that searches web pages for citations to case law, statutes, regulations, federal court rules, and other sources, and converts those citations into hyperlinks that point to freely available online legal sources.  It also includes a toolbar that allows you to search for source material by legal citation and to search for HTML versions of PDF pages.

For more information, you can go to the Jureeka! home page.  You can download the extension from the home page or from Mozilla's Firefox Add-ons page.

If you are looking for a place to organize all of your research or class notes, Mashable has created a list of the Top 10 Online Note Taking Applications.  Most of these applications are free and allow you to store notes and clips of information from a variety of formats.  You can then access your notes online from wherever you have Internet access. 

Some of the applications mentioned include Evernote, Google Notes, and Zoho Notebook.

HT: iLibrarian