Entries in the Category "Research Guides"
Finding Supreme Court opinions | April 20, 2009
Download file (obtained from the Supreme Court's website)
Posted by Andrew Dorchak at April 20, 2009 02:30 PM
resources for researching global issues | February 02, 2009
GlobaLex (NYU Law)
Global Legal Monitor (Law Library of Congress)
ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law (American Society of International Law)
Posted by Andrew Dorchak at February 2, 2009 02:48 PM
Selected International Criminal Law Treatises, 2003-2008 | June 25, 2008
A list of book titles available from CWRU and/or OhioLINK libraries.
Posted by Andrew Dorchak at June 25, 2008 01:34 AM
Tutorial: Finding Books | May 16, 2008
This is a tutorial showing Case Western Reserve University (law) patrons how to find books on a subject, such as Lizzie Borden, using the CWRU and OhioLINK online catalogs.
Note: Access to some CWRU and OhioLINK resources & services are limited to currently-affiliated patrons.
* If you get gibberish when you save the file to your hard drive, do the following:
1. Right-click and select "save target as"
2. Save as file type "all file types"
3. Append the suffix ".wmv" to the end of the file name.
Posted by Andrew Dorchak at May 16, 2008 07:00 PM
How to access Ohio court opinions (case law) | May 02, 2008
Download file before viewing.*
How to access Ohio court opinions via the internet and LexisNexis Academic.
* If you get gibberish when you save the file to your hard drive, do the following:
1. Right-click and select "save target as"
2. Save as file type "all file types"
3. Append the suffix ".wmv" to the end of the file name.
Posted by Andrew Dorchak at May 2, 2008 08:20 PM
How to Access the Ohio Revised Code | May 02, 2008
Download file before viewing.*
How to access the Ohio Revised Code via the internet or LexisNexis Academic.
* If you get gibberish when you save the file to your hard drive, do the following:
1. Right-click and select "save target as"
2. Save as file type "all file types"
3. Append the suffix ".wmv" to the end of the file name.
Posted by Andrew Dorchak at May 2, 2008 08:16 PM
reports on patent reform in the U.S. | April 28, 2008
Reports on U.S. Patent Reform
Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) report on patent reform
www.bio.org/reg/media/patent_reform_study.pdf (Feb. 2008)
Federal Trade Commission
TO PROMOTE INNOVATION: THE PROPER BALANCE OF COMPETITION AND PATENT LAW AND POLICY
www.ftc.gov/os/2003/10/innovationrpt.pdf
(315 pages, Oct. 2003)
Press Release and link to Executive Summary (18 pages)
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/10/cpreport.shtm
National Academy of Sciences
A PATENT SYSTEM FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10976#toc
(172 pages, 2004)
www7.nationalacademies.org/step/Patent_Summary_Research.pdf
(3.5 page summary)
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/ocga/testimony/Patent_System_for_the_21st_Century.asp
(Congressional statement)
National Research Council
REAPING THE BENEFITS OF GENOMIC AND PROTEOMIC RESEARCH
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11487#toc
(188 pages, 2006 book (HTML format) and link to 35 page summary)
Posted by Andrew Dorchak at April 28, 2008 08:06 PM
Shepard's (LexisNexis Academic) | April 25, 2008
Download file (If you get gibberish when you attempt to play the file, see bottom of this entry for further instructions )
The two most popular resources that lawyers use to make sure a case they are citing is still “good law” are Shepard’s (Lexis) and KeyCite (Westlaw). These are fee-based services in the “real world.”
Currently-affiliated members of the CWRU community (excluding alumni, unfortunately) may access Shepard’s via the research database “LexisNexis Academic”.
Here is a video tutorial on how one would access the Shepard’s results for Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000). (Download file before viewing it.)
Members of OhioLINK institutions which subscribe to the LexisNexis Academic database may also access Shepard’s from their list of research databases.
If you get gibberish when you save the file to your hard drive, do the following:
1. Right-click and select "save target as"
2. Save as file type "all file types"
3. Append the suffix ".wmv" to the end of the file name.
Posted by Andrew Dorchak at April 25, 2008 09:21 PM