…also that few full-text documents are in OJIN. If you need copies of actual documents filed in a particular case, rather than just reading the docket entry, you would have…
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U.S. (federal) Government Documents: New Website and Search Tool
Check out GPO’s MetaLib: “Welcome to MetaLib , a service of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications! MetaLib is a federated search engine that searches multiple U.S. Federal…
It’s National County Government (and Poetry) Month
Hat tip to Gallagher blogs, the ever vigilant and ever playful, law librarians at the University of Washington. “National County Government Month April is the cruellest month,” wrote T….
Guidelines on Public Rights of Access to Judicial Proceedings and Records (Mass.)
…statewide. Sigh.) (By the way, Auditor or “accountability” reports at many levels of government are a great research resource.) These particular Massachusetts’ guidelines start off with this statement of their:…
Articles of Impeachment: Where and How to Find
…print in large law or government document libraries and usually, though not always easily, online. Some online Congressional research resources are fee-based databases and some are free. For example, see…
Oregon Local Government Documents
If you research local government law and haven’t yet explored the growing collection at the University of Oregon Scholars’ Bank, now is the time. The Cities collection is here…
Save Your Webpages for Posterity, Please: Internet Archive Wayback Machine
…of those URLs have been saved to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. These government, nonprofit, NGO, official document, and other URLs should be preserved in the Archive. If you build,…
Oregon Media Shield Law (and Bloggers) Case Documents
My previous post, Ayyoub, Clackamas County (Oregon) Blogging Case, and SCRIBD, did not identify the documents that I uploaded to SCRIBD about this case. They are: 1) Judge Redman,…
Hyperlinking, Newspapers Disappoint Us, and the Oregon National Guard
…a dozen or more government documents. I would then challenge my students to identify and locate each of the documents. This is harder than you think, but very effective and…
Free Federal Court Opinions in FDsys
Find free U.S. court opinions at the FDsys website. This is a pilot project and not yet fully populated, but take a look: FDsys homepage…
Oregon Legal Research Blog

