Oregon Legal Research BlogScout is a useful tool for researching subject-specific bills in state legislatures and in Congress. There are subscription databases that do this, too, but Scout is free….
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Database Access for Researchers Affected by Travel Bans: ProQuest
Other databases (Lexis, Westlaw, maybe, who knows) may start doing this too for students, scientists, and other researchers, but in the meantime: ProQuest launches free access to its…
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Oregon House and Senate 2016 Bills
The short session Oregon Legislative 2016 bills are now online. As of this moment, however, the 2015 Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) are still NOT online, but if you’re…
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9+ Job Searching Resources for Oregon Ex-Offenders
The Beaverton City (Oregon) Library Blog has posted an excellent list of resources: Job Hunting Resources for Ex-Offenders…
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Internet Searching and Archiving: It Doesn’t Get Better; It Gets a Whole Lot Worse
Two recent articles worth reading if you want to research online and recall the past: Net for Lawyers: Google’s News Search is in Even Worse Condition Than we…
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How to Search for Criminal Records
…searching criminal records thoroughly requires searching more than one database in more than one jurisdiction, not to mention specialized searching skills. (Note: Do not confuse a criminal history check with…
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Oregon Jury Verdicts: Statistics, Reports, Research
This is an update to my previous post on Oregon jury verdict statistics, reports, & research . If you are searching for the jury verdict in a…
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More Free and Searchable Legal Databases
…case searching for a long time, but neither they nor anyone else offered free federal district court case searching until now. JUSTIA has launched a searchable database of just these…
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CC&R, C.C.& R., C. C. & R.: Abbreviations and the Digital World
That little old “space key” or its absence can matter, a lot. Abbreviations can drive one crazy, especially when searching online, either on the free web or in subscription…