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 First…
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Lexis and Westlaw Search Syntax Comparison and Cheat Sheet
While playing around with our newly installed OSB BarBooks database and came across this mysterious Boolean search: variable: 4 and weights:7 While waiting for the answer to reveal itself,…
Is a Backpack Inventory by Police a Warrantless Search? Oregon v. Hite (2014)
…unlawfully searched the backpack. The trial court ruled that the police were required to inventory the contents of the backpack before taking defendant to jail, and it denied the motion…
What is SEO? Why, it’s Search Engine Optimization.
See Jim Calloway’s links, from his post: Your Website: Getting the Attention of the Search Engines. Excerpt: “You finally got your law firm Web site online and waited…
Government (dot gov) Websites
…of it, who will? Research tip: When you want just dot gov sites in your search results: From many search engines (though it can be frustrating to figure if the…
How to Search for Criminal Records
…Can I search for that information online – and for free? The answer: There are no reliable, comprehensive, accurate and free online criminal history records-check resources and in fact,…
Beware when Lawyers “e-Discover”: Not Everyone is a Search Expert
…topic and the advice should be heeded. So, in my Consult a Librarian, Already! file, this terrific article by Craig Ball: Ball in Your Court: Science of Search, excerpt: ‘Federal…
License to Print Money? Researching Marijuana Taxation Law, History, and Practice
…all indexes or search engines have word truncation and wildcard options. 13) Research laws (bet you thought I’d never get to “the law”): States, Federal, uniform, model, foreign, international, histories,…
Beyond Google: Research Resource Guides for the Expert Searcher, Librarian, and Teacher
…including streaming audio/video Legislative Monitoring and Tracking E-Newsletters, Online Newspapers, Journals and News Sources Monitoring Trends, Companies and Products – Selected News Aggregators, RSS Feeds, Blog Search Engines Identification of…
Search Oregon City and County Websites
This is an excellent research tool from the staff at the University of Oregon Document Center for those who need to search across all Oregon local government web sites….
Oregon Legal Research Blog

