…(or website’s) strengths and limits. Make no assumptions about database searching protocols. (They change faster than the latest secret to a long life nutrition fad: Quinoa! Kale! Pomegranate! Bacon?)…
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California Court Documents: Trial Court Documents and Appellate Court Briefs
…DomainWeb. Searching for dockets is free but retrieving documents is fee based and anyone with a credit card can create an account to retrieve documents. (Visit the Alameda County Law…
I Know Nothing: Open Access (free) Literature, Article, Government Document, and Primary Source Digital Archives, Libraries, Databases, and Repositories
…Resource and PlainSite. How do you find these resources? One way is by searching the following words (or variations on them): ebook repositories open access The document you seek may…
Canis Lupus Law: Why Do We Try to Save the Wolves?
…Scientific American article: “Excerpted from Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man, by Jason Mark. Island Press. Copyright © 2015″ Hat tip to…
Jobs: Plum Book: United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions
…and Executive Office appointee, you’ll need to update your Plum Book findings by searching more deeply, by agency, by hiring authority, by job posting service, and by news reports on…
Law Students, Get Smart: Mine Your County Law Library
…more than once). Even those students who use online resources exclusively generally only know how to use Natural Language searching (and that only taps about 15% of the full potential…
ORS 164.887 Declared Unconstitutional (Borowski): But Read the Fine Print
One of the toughest lessons on the law for non-attorneys is that The Law is not black and white and that searching for The Law, or The Answer, in…
Oregon and the Uniform Collaborative Law Act
…article on an interesting Oregon legal issue that is worthy of some attention, but alas. Try searching Oregon law reviews and what do you find? Not much, at least not…
Oregon Department of Justice: Worst Charities List
…registered with the Attorney General’s Office by searching the Department’s online database or by calling 971-673-1880. You can also visit www.guidestar.org, a national clearinghouse of information on charities and their…
Public Domain and those “Can I Copyright a ‘PowerPoint’ Presentation?’ Questions
Public Domain: Just when you think you figured out when a document was in the public domain, and no longer copyrighted, your instincts tell you to keep searching….
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