Notable Internet Resources 2000

This is the archive of the Notable Internet Resources columns from 2000. Notable Internet Resources is produced by the Langdell reference department as a service to the Harvard Law School community. The archive may be browsed by date or by topic.

Notable Internet Resources provides annotated links to resources on a topic of interest to the Harvard Law School community. Once published, no effort is made to ensure the links remain current or accurate. This archive is provided for informational purposes only. Please contact the Langdell reference desk, (617) 495-4516, located just off the reading room on the fourth floor of Langdell Hall with any questions.

Notable Internet Resources Listed by Date:

Notable Internet Resources Listed by Topic:

Asia (April 3)
Canada (March 6)
Company Research (May 15)
Country Information (January 31)
Cyber Sources (February 7)
E-commerce Sites (May 8)
Environmental Sites (October 10)
Federal Rules of Procedure & Evidence (December 18)
Finding Out About ... (September 18)
Finding Working Papers (January 10)
Focus on Asia (September 11)
Focus on the United States for July 4th (July 5)
Free Electronic Texts (June 20)
Free E-mail Current Awareness Services (November 20)
Full-text Law Reviews on the Web (June 26)
Governments: U.S., U.K. & Ireland (May 30)
Investment Resources (May 22)
Judicial Biographies (August 14)
July 17 (July 17)
LLRX Guides (July 24)
Law of Indigenous People (March 20)
Library Catalogs & Terminology (February 21)
Native American Focus (October 16)
Non-Law Research Sites (April 11)
Pacific Rim (February 14)
Patent, Trademark, and Copyright (April 17)
Presidential Election 2000: Legal Documents (December 11)
Presidential Papers Plus (September 25)
Redesigning Sites (July 11)
SEC Filings (December 4)
Stay Connected This Summer! (June 5)
Stay Connected This Summer!(June 12)
Some Notable Non-U.S. Sites (May 1)
Time to Think About Taxes (March 13)
Tax Treaties (August 21)
United Kingdom (March 27)
U.S. Court Docket Information (November 13)
U.S. Court Web Sites and Listserves (August 29)
U.S. Federal Government (April 24)
U.S. Federal Government Reports and Statistics (September 5)
U.S. Government Information (October 2)
U.S. Presidential Elections (November 6)

Notable Internet Resources 2000 Archive:

January 3

Law Review Electronic Submissions
(http://www.nku.edu/~chase/libesubmission.html): Professor Rick Bales, at Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University, created this useful site. Here you can find a listing of law reviews that will accept submissions electronically. The listing is alphabetical and includes a link to the e-mail of the contact person, the name of the person to whom to submit articles, the telephone number to request an expedited review of a submission and the date on which the law review board changes each year. A very handy tool!

Online! Citation Styles
(http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/index.html): Need to cite an online source in a paper or article? Try this guide from Bedford/St. Martin's Press. This online guide, which will give citation format for both print and online sources, is one of the most up to date resources you can use. The sources covered include e-mail, discussion lists, WWW sites and more.

Human Rights Watch World Report 2000  
(http://www.hrw.org/wr2k/): Released in mid-December, this most recent edition of the Human Rights Watch annual report is accessible at the Human Rights Watch site. Reports are listed by country, along with a regional overview and special topics, including "Children's Rights," "Women's Rights," and "Freedom of Expression on the Internet."

International Y2K Cooperation Center
(http://www.iy2kcc.org/): This center was set up to monitor the transition to the year 2000 by countries from across the globe. A chart listing countries indicates how various sectors (i.e. energy, telecommunications, etc.) handled the much-anticipated rollover to the New Year. There are also links to each country's government official Y2K page. Even though all seems to have transitioned smoothly, take a look to see what measures were in place should that not have happened!

January 10:  Finding Working Papers

Social Science Research Network 
(http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/search.taf): A really useful site for locating working papers. Find links to law schools' working paper collections related to law and economics as well as public policy. There are also working paper links for accounting, economics, finance and Latin American studies. A good first stop site when looking for a working paper on the Web.

Working Paper Sites 
(http://www.econ.canterbury.ac.nz/wpsites.htm): If you are looking for a working paper on the topic of economics, try this site from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. You'll find links to many sites from around the world where working papers are available for free, full text, on the Internet.

M.I.T. Theses and E-Theses Online  
(http://theses.mit.edu/): This collection of selected MIT master's and doctoral theses (from 1998 to present), accessible full-text via the World Wide Web, can be searched by author, title, subject area or using an advanced search interface with even more options. Documents are also listed by author and year for easy browsing. If you do not find the MIT thesis you are looking for in the electronic collection, there is a link to BARTON, the MIT on-line catalog, where all MIT theses can be found.

SSRI Working Papers 
(http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/econ/archive/ssriwp.htm): The Social Science Research Institute at the Economics Department, University of Wisconsin - Madison, provides access in .pdf format to SSRI working papers beginning in 1997. The SSRI provides research support to the faculty in the University's Economics Department.

Economics Working Paper Archive ( http://augustus.csscr.washington.edu/personal/jaechul-mosaic/wpa.html): Maintained by a graduate student at the University of Washington, find links to several collections of economics working papers on the Internet.

Working Papers  
(http://finweb.bus.utexas.edu/papers.html): For working papers related to the topic of finance, try this site from the University of Texas at Austin, where there are links to finance working papers available on the World Wide Web.

Politics Research Group  
(http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/prg/topics.htm): From the Kennedy School's Politics Research Group (PRG), a collection of PRG working papers from 1995 to present.

Working Paper Archive ( http://www.fccouncil.com/public2/economics/Research/wparchive.htm): The Farm Credit Council has collected working papers it has found on the Web. Paper topics include agriculture, banking, finance and macroeconomics, as well as a list of papers related to the Asian financial crisis. Search this collection by title, author, keyword or publication date.

Scholarly Societies Project  
(http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/overview.html): From the University of Waterloo, this is a useful site for locating scholarly societies. Find a listing by subject (i.e. "Law"), view meeting and conference announcements, search the site for societies by name or abbreviation, as well as view the archives of societies' full-text serials.

January 17

NASDAQ Glossary 
(http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/glossary.stm): Wondering what "Best Ask" means? What is a "12(b)1 Fee"? This alphabetic list of terms from NASDAQ will help you decipher both terms, along with many others. Unfortunately, there is no search option available.

Sociology Dictionary 
(http://www.iversonsoftware.com/sociology/index.htm): Doing some cross-disciplinary work in sociology? Here are 130 common sociology terms, listed alphabetically with a helpful definition. Alphabetic links for easier access, but the site is not searchable.

Braintrack University Index 
(http://www.braintrack.com/): From Switzerland comes an index of universities, polytechnics, colleges and related institutions from around the globe! You can search the listings by keyword or browse lists broken down by country. Links are provided to the over 5300 institutions Web pages from the easy to navigate site.

Association Central.com 
(http://www.associationcentral.com/): Search for specific association or browse associations by categories, including "Law and Government". Links are provided to association Web sites, including the American Arbitration Association, American Corporate Counsel Association, and many state bar associations. With the Advanced Search option (http://www.associationcentral.com/search/index.cfm) you can even search by acronym.

January 24

SearchMil.com (http://www.searchmil.com/): Indexing over 900,000 page sin the military domain, this specialty search engine, you can search by keyword to retrieve and annotated list of sites. If you know the information you are looking for is from the .mil domain, this specialty search engine can help you retrieve the information you are searching without as many extraneous hits.

Human Rights and You: A Guide for the States of the Former Soviet Union and Central Europe (http://www.usia.gov/products/pubs/humrts/): All 260 pages of this publication form the United States Department of State and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) are available in .pdf format. Although compiled for law officials in the former Soviet Union and Central Europe, this collection f United Nations, OSCE and Council of Europe basic human rights documents is a great resource for anyone researching human rights in this area of the world.

January 31:  Country Information

Human Rights Watch World Report 2000 
(http://www.hrw.org/wr2k/): This year's Human Rights Watch World Report covers 66 countries. Also, find special topic reports including Academic Freedom, Corporations and Human Rights, and Child Soldiers.

Library of Congress: Country Studies 
(http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html): Search or browse almost 100 country reports prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. Find out about each country's economy, government, history, and infrastructure.

Pan American Organization: Country Health Profiles (http://www.paho.org/english/country.htm): Health related profiles for each country in the Americas can be accessed at this site. Find out about the literacy rate, urban population, life expectancy, infant mortality rate, access to health care and much more.

United Nations Interregional Crime & Justice Research Institute  
(http://www.unicri.it/): Looking for criminology information on countries from around the globe? Try this site. Here you can access electronic publications (http://www.unicri.it/html/digital_publications.htm) from the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Institute (UNCRI), as well as search several databases (a bibliographic database, World Directory of Criminological Resources, and the UNCRI Thesaurus).

February 7:  Cyber Sources

Berkman Center for Internet and Society 
(http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/): Harvard Law Schools' Berkman Center has posted the full-text of various pleadings in the Microsoft case. The newest additions, in .pdf format, are Prof. Lawrence Lessig's amicus brief and Microsoft's surreply.

Social and Economic Implications of Information Technologies: A Bibliographic Database Pilot Project 
(http://srsweb.nsf.gov/it_site/index.htm): This well organized site is presented by the National Science Foundation's Science Resource Studies. It includes links to data sets on the Internet, which deal with the impact of information technology on education, government, the home, science and employment, among others.

Cyberspace Law 
(http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/): Professor David Sorkin, from John Marshall School of Law, along with his students, put together this site. Here you will find information and the syllabus of Prof. Sorkin's class, as well as an extensive bibliography related to cyberlaw, complete with links to the Web, Lexis and Westlaw. You can also join the CYBERSPACELAW discussion list.

E-conomy Project 
(http://e-conomy.berkeley.edu/): A cooperative effort from the UC Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, the College of Engineering, the Haas School of Business and the School of Information Management and Systems, this site focuses on the impact of digital networks and e-commerce on industrial and economic activity. Find out about the research being conducted by the Project, as well as access full-text working papers.

CyberSecuritiesLaw  
(http://www.cybersecuritieslaw.com/): Looking for information related to securities regulation and the Internet? This well organized site is the one to try first. There is a bibliography, links to other sites, news and even a free e-mail update service.

February 14:  Pacific Rim

East and Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources ( http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/index.html): From the University of Redlands in California, this well organized site provides a page of links for countries in Asia, as well as pages of links related to "hot topics" such as "East Timor: The Road to Independence".

National Bureau of Asian Research 
(http://www.nbr.org/): Search a database, AccessAsia (http://www.accessasia.org/), of Asia specialists, access National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) publications or try the links to other resources. The NBR, located in Seattle, Washington, also provides related conference announcements, links, area studies reports and news related to Asia.

APEC Competition Policy & Law Database 
(http://www.apeccp.org.tw/): Search the APEC's (the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) Competition Policy & Law Database and browse information about member's economies. Judicial cases, administrative procedures, competition policies and laws as well as many other resources are all available at this site.

Asian Human Rights Commission 
(http://www.ahrchk.net/index.html): Located in Hong Kong, this non-governmental organization aims to raise awareness of human rights in the Asian region. Information about human rights issues in specific countries including East Timor and Sri Lanka, among others, is available. Also, find publications by the Commission and reports on human rights issues from across Asia.

Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping 
(http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/english/dengxp/): Find the full-text in English of selected works by Deng Xiaoping, from 1938 until 1992. Documents include speeches, reports, directives, correspondence, and more.

Chan Robles Virtual Law Library  
(http://www.chanrobles.com/index1.htm): For information on the Philippines, try this site from the law firm of Chan Robles. The Virtual Law Library includes links to primary Philippine legal resources, the full-text of the Constitution, along with many other related resources. If you are looking at Philippine law, try this site.

February 21:  Library Catalogs and Terminology

Gabriel: Gateway to Europe's National Libraries 
(http://portico.bl.uk/gabriel/en/services.html): Link to and search the online catalogs of libraries from across Europe. Also, there are links to national bibliographies, national union catalogs, Web and gopher servers, and library publications.

National Library Catalogs Worldwide 
(http://www.library.uq.edu.au/ssah/jeast//): The University of Queensland in Australia brings this collection of links to national library catalogs from across the globe.

Catalogues de la BnF 
(http://www.bnf.fr/web-bnf/catalog/): Search the holdings of France's national library, which include not only current books and periodicals, but also historical texts and images. Available only in French.

ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (http://www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/library/odlis.html): Joan M. Reitz, an Assistant Professor at Western Connecticut State University, has assembled this alphabetic list of library terms. Not only will you find out what the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules and an abstract are, you can also find out about computer related terminology like CGI and cache.

LibraryLand: Index to Resources for Librarians  
(http://www.librarylandindex.org/): At this up to date site, find links to information for librarians as well as search the Internet for library related information. Topics include digital imaging initiatives, law libraries, and Web management.

March 6:  Canada

Canadian Links 
(http://www.canadian-links.com/): This collection of over 20,000 links to information sources on the Internet related to Canada is fully searchable. Or, you can browse the links broken down by topic or geographic area.

Canadian Information by Subject: Law 
(http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/caninfo/ep034.htm#34): The National Library of Canada has collected links to many sources of information related to Canada, including a set of links to legal resources. This well organized collection of links includes international law, municipal law, civil rights, natural resource law and civil procedure resources, just to name a few.

LexUM  
(http://www.lexum.umontreal.ca/index_en.html): Presented by the University of Montreal's Faculty of Law, available in English or French, this site includes links to resources for the law of Canada, Quebec as well as international law. There are several resources that are only available in French, as indicated by an asterisk (*).

British Columbia Law Institute  
(http://www.bcli.org): An independent research institution, the Institute studies issues related to legal reform in Canada, as well as in other Anglo-American countries worldwide. There are full-text publications such as working papers accessible at the site. Also, you will find a fully searchable database of reports on law reform in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Papua New Guinea.

March 13:  Time to Think About Taxes

TaxIssue.com 
(http://www.TaxIssue.com/): Loaded with free tax related information, this site is easy to navigate. The "Resources" section includes tax statistics, federal forms, state forms, and legislation. "Links" to federal and state tax related sites, the IRS, associations as well as international information are likewise available. Or, you can search the tax code or tax cases. There is also a "Refund Estimator"!

Tax Forms and Research on the Web ( http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/research/guides/united_states/specialized/tax_forms.php): From the Harvard Law School Library, use this helpful research guide to find federal and state tax forms. The guide is also useful for those researching tax law, with access to tax legislation, regulation and cases. Additionally, call numbers for select tax related resources available in hard copy at the Harvard Law School Library are provided.

Sister States 
(http://www.sisterstates.com/): Aptly billed as "Your One Stop Source for All State Tax Sites", find links to 2000 tax information and forms for all 50 states.

DOJ Criminal Tax Manual 
(http://www.usdoj.gov/tax/readingroom/foia/tax.htm): The full-text of the current Department of Justice Criminal Tax Manual is available in either HTML or PDF format. Also available are the Judgment Collection Manual and Settlement Reference Manual.

The Department of the Treasury - Tax Policy Documents 
(http://www.ustreas.gov/taxpolicy/): From the Office of Tax Policy at the United States Department of the Treasury, this site provides access to documents related to tax policy (http://www.ustreas.gov/taxpolicy/documents.html) including Congressional testimony, tax treaty documents, reports on various studies, administrative guidance and regulations.

March 20:  Law of Indigenous People

Native American Legal Resources 
(http://www.law.ou.edu/indian/index.html): Home of the Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project (http://thorpe.ou.edu/), which provides native American Constitutions and Codes full-text, be sure to look at this site. Links to tribal home pages, legal and historical resources related to Native Americans add to this site's usefulness.

Bureau of Indian Affairs 
(http://www.doi.gov/bureau-indian-affairs.html): Find information about the American Indian Trust, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) law enforcement activities, legislative affair updates, gaming compacts, statistics, select BIA reports - to list some of the many resources available at this U.S. government site.

LII: Law About Indian Peoples 
(http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/indian.html): A great source for law related to indigenous people from Cornell's Legal Information Institute. Find links to related sections of the U.S. Constitution, federal statutes, regulations and decisions, along with state and international materials.

NativeWeb 
(http://www.nativeweb.org/): Billed as "Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World", find over 3000 links to internet resources related to indigenous people worldwide, organized in categories, such as "Law & Legal Issues" and "History", under the "Start Here" on the menu. There is also the "Native Law News Digest", where current news stories related to indigenous peoples are digested, and a link is provided to the full text of the story. The entire site is searchable.

Native Law Centre of Canada 
(http://www.usask.ca/nativelaw/): From the University of Saskatchewan's Native Law Centre of Canada, this site provides a searchable index of Canadian native law cases (1763-1978), about 25% are available full-text, with plans to continue to add to this percentage. There is also a listing of the Centre's publications, select articles from the Centre's newsletter, Justice as Healing, as well as information about the Centre and its various programs.

National Native Title Tribunal  
(http://www.nntt.gov.au/nntt/home.nsf/area/homepage): In 1992, the High court of Australia recognized native title. The National Native Title Tribunal (NNTT), which is not a court and renders no decisions, "facilitates the making of agreements" between native peoples, the government and private interests. The NNTT's site includes the Annual Reports (1995 to 1999), information on the registration procedure, regulations concerning indigenous land use agreements (ILUAs), along with other information related to native title in Australia.

March 27:  United Kingdom

British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII)
(http://www.bailii.org/): Launched just this month, this site is the first on the Web to offer free access to case law and legislation from the United Kingdom, as well as Ireland. Fourteen databases are already available, with more to be added. The Australasian Legal Information Institute (http://www.austlii.edu.au) developed BAILII, where you can find British legal materials - very well organized and fully searchable.

Hansards: House of Commons
(http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmhansrd.htm) and
House of Lords Debates
(http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld/ldhansrd.htm): The House of Lords debates from June of 1996 and the House of Commons debates all the way back to 1988 are now available full-text at these sites. The House of Commons debates are also fully searchable, the House of Lords debates can be searched under certain categories, i.e. bills, statements, questions. Both pages are updated daily.

Environmental Agency of England and Wales 
(http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/): Find guidances, directives, policies as well as research and full-text documents related to environmental issues in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

Tax Links -- AccountingWEB 
(http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/tax/): Looking for British tax information? Try this site aimed at accountants in the United Kingdom. One of the most useful features is large collection of links to British tax information on the Internet ( http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=13447&d=182).

The Times 
(http://www.the-times.co.uk/): Keep up to date on British news, and search the archives all the way back to 1996 ( http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/resources/library1.n.html)

BBC 
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/): A great source for news from the United Kingdom as well as across the world, this site is constantly updated. You can also search the archives back to the site launch date in 1997.

April 3:  Asia

China WTO Accession Deal 
(http://www.fas.usda.gov/itp/china/accession.html): The United States Department of Agriculture provides full-text fact sheets in portable document format related to the effect of China's accession to the World Trade Organization on American agriculture. Fact sheets are available for different types of agricultural products as well as for each state. Other documents related to China's cooperative agricultural agreement are also available, along with links to other federal government sites dealing with Chinese-American trade.

Asia Recovery Information Center (ARIC) 
(http://aric.adb.org/): In response to the financial crisis in Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand, the ARIC was established by a grant from the Australian Agency for International Development in March of 1999. One of the full-text documents available at this site is the ARIC 2000 Annual Report on the status of the recovery of these countries. Also, there are news stories and articles. Special sections of the site are devoted to links to other sites, the social dimensions of the crisis, international assistance as well as several other related topics.

Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal (APLPJ) 
(http://www.hawaii.edu/aplpj/): Hosted by the University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law, this free online journal is devoted to legal, policy and socio-economic issues in East Asia and Polynesia. The first issue was published in February 2000 and is a symposium issue on legal education in Japan.

South Asia Terrorism Portal 
(http://www.icm-satp.com/): Launched on March 11, 2000 by the Institute for Conflict Management (ICM), this portal provides information, analysis and data on terrorism and low-intensity warfare in South Asia. Countries covered include Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Nepal. Documents available include select laws, agreements and constitutional provisions from each country related to terrorism. Get up to date news on terrorism in South Asia with the "Terrorism Update" section of this site.

April 11:  Non-Law Research Sites

Social Science Hub 
(http://www.sshub.com): Looking for political science, sociology, or other social science related information on the Internet? Give this site a try. You will find a collection of Web site organized by topic, links to journals, other publications, online databases as well as to a collection of social science resources organized by country.

ThisNation.com 
(http://www.thisnation.com/): Billed as "The Most Comprehensive Guide to American Government & Politics on the Net", find a glossary of political terms, an online textbook, news and political commentary all at this useful site. The Library (http://www.thisnation.com/library/index.html) section includes select executive orders, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, inaugural addresses, foreign policy statements, war messages, among other documents full-text.

Psychology Resources 
(http://www.psychologyresources.net/site/resources.htm): Try this site for psychology resources on the Internet. Links to online journals, psychology conference information from around the world and tips for conducting psychology research on the Internet are all clearly presented at this site created by a researcher at Regis University in Colorado. One of the most useful features is a collection of well-annotated links to psychology sites on the Internet (http://www.psychologyresources.net/site/links.htm) organized by topic, i.e. post-traumatic stress, behavioral psychology, etc.

Opinion Pages 
(http://www.opinion-pages.org/): Access recent opinion and editorial pieces from almost 600 online English language newspaper from across the globe. You can search the entire collection, view links to papers by geographic region or search subject focused databases, such as technology, business and finance or even sports.

MagPortal.com  
(http://www.magportal.com/): Find links to, or search, online magazine articles organized by subject, i.e., Internet, health, business, etc. Or, search the entire collection of articles. The articles retrieved can then be viewed full-text, marked and stored, or you can find similar articles by clicking on an icon next to the title.

April 17:  Patent, Trademark, and Copyright

PatentLawLinks.com 
(http://www.patentlawlinks.com/): 
Case law, statutes, regulations, Patent and Trademark Office forms, journals, search engines and more, all focused on intellectual property law are linked form this useful site.

Selected Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Information on the Web (http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/patentweb.htm): Natalie Rutledge, a librarian at the Western Virginia University Library, has collected and annotated this list of useful patent, trademark and copyright sites.

Copyright Resources Online 
(http://www.library.yale.edu/%7Eokerson/copyproj.html): Another collection of links, these form the Yale University Library. Find links, both an annotated and an unannotated listing, to university and non-university sites devoted to the topic of copyright.

Trademark Electronic Search System 
(http://tess.uspto.gov/): This pilot database will eventually replace the current US Trademark Search Database. Both databases will remain operational until further notice. TESS, as it is called, contains in excess of 2.6 million pending, registered and dead records. You can search via a "Structured Form Search", a "Free Form Search", or "Browse Dictionary".

European Patent Office (http://www.european-patent-office.org/): Find Official Journal documents, Board of Appeals rules, contact information for patent office across Europe with links to available Web sites, full-text of the European Patent Convention and ancillary regulations, a guide for EPO applicants, and much more at this site.

IP Australia (http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/index.html): The federal government of Australia presents this site where you can search the Australian patent database or apply for a patent online!

Institut National de la Propriete Industrielle (http://www.inpi.fr/): This French government site devoted to intellectual property, completely in French, provides a search of patent databases (the previous two years of records for free and others by subscription) along with valuable additional information about patent law in France.

April 24:  New HLS Databases

CCH Tax Research Network ( http://tax.cch.com/ipnetwork): 
Check out the research guide (http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/research/guides/eresources/cch_research_network.php) from the HLS Library which will help you make the most of the new HLS subscription to this online tax resource.

United States Federal Government

Supreme Court of the United States 
(http://www.supremecourtus.gov/): This week, the Supreme Court introduced its Web site. You can find case law, a listing of all justices for the entire history of the court, orders, a court calendar, bar admission information, court rules plus more. Many documents are in Portable Document Format (.pdf).

Washington File 
(http://usinfo.state.gov/products/washfile.htm): The United States Department of State International Information Programs presents this site which contains official texts, policy statements and interpretive materials, features and byline articles produced by this Program. You can access information from the past two weeks by region or topic, quick link to information from the past 48 hours, or you can search a database of materials from the past several years.

Federal Labor Relations Authority 
(http://www.flra.gov/): Find information about this independent agency's local offices, access decisions, policies, guidances, FLRA News and FLRA Bulletin full-text, and more at the FLRA Web site.

May 1: Lexis Update

CIS Historical Index: For the first time, you can access the CIS Historical Index, covering 1789 through 1969, on Lexis. Now locating historical congressional documents is easier than ever! You can find this new source in the LEGIS, GENFED or CODES Libraries, as the CISHST File, or in the Source Selection Hierarchy: /Legislation & Politics/U.S. Congress/Legislative Histories.

Notable Internet Resources:  Some Notable Non-U.S. Sites

Federal Court of Canada 
(http://www.fja.gc.ca/en/cf/index.html): Canadian Federal Court decisions beginning in 1990 are available full-text at this site. You can also access the Court Rules, subscribe to an e-mail list to keep up to date on new Court decisions, and learn about the Court's Internet Project and its Reports Advisory Committee.

Australian Institute of Criminology 
(http://www.aic.gov.au/index.html): For information about Australian crime and criminal justice, try this site. Full-text publications and reports, links to other Internet resources, statistics, information on Australian policing and other several other topics are all accessible at this well organized and fully searchable site.

Mbendi 
(http://mbendi.co.za/): Billed as "Africa's Leading Business Website", this site provides access to information about African companies, organizations, stock markets, industry sectors, news, export and import procedures, and much more. You can also find background information about African countries, such as population, government structure, and leading industries.

Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink 
(http://members.nbci.com/cariblink/index.html): At this helpful site for locating information about Caribbean Amerindians, find annotated links to resources related to Caribbean Amerindian communities, debates, documents, dissertations, archeology, arts and much more.

Gazetteer for Scotland 
(http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/): This online gazetteer, developed by the Department of Geography at the University of Edinburgh with the Royal Scottish Geographic Society, provides information about Scottish towns, villages and glens, including maps, geography, and more. You can also search the statistics (http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/Statistics.html).

May 8:  E-commerce Sites

Dot Com Statistics 
(http://www.nsol.com/statistics/): Network Solutions brings you United States, international and business domain statistics from 1998 through January 2000.

E-Commerce Policy 
(http://www.ecommerce.gov/): This United States government site is completely devoted to e-commerce. Find "Important U.S. Documents" related to e-commerce, links to U.S. government and international sites, the White House's "Framework for Global Electronic Commerce," U.S. government announcements and much more.

Northern Light Special Edition: Electronic Commerce (http://special.northernlight.com/ecommerce/index.html ): Internet search engine Northern Light has collected resources from across the Internet related to e-commerce and presents them in a well organized, user friendly manner. This site is a good place to start looking for e-commerce related information on the Web.

Federal Electronic Commerce Program 
(http://ec.fed.gov/): This site is divided into sections on e-commerce topics such as "Security", "Electronic Funds Transfers", "Small Business Help Corner", and many more. There are links to other federal electronic commerce sites, a library of electronic commerce documents available in full-text, and news about current electronic commerce topics. Use this site as a gateway to United States government information on electronic commerce.

May 15: Company Research

Annual Report Gallery 
(http://www.reportgallery.com/): Browse or search over 2200 United States company reports, including most fortune 500 companies, at this well organized and FREE site. You can search by company name or ticker symbol, see international company reports, or access a set of links to financial resources across the Web!

Carlson Online 
(http://www.carlsononline.com/): For Canadian public company information, try this site. You can search by symbol or company name to find basic information including press releases, links to Web sites, stock quotes, public filings and more, all for free. For a fee, even more information is available.

How to Research Companies on the Internet (http://www.internetlawyer.com/facts/company.html): From The Internet Lawyer, this guide helps you find information on public and private companies, company reports, SEC filings, and more. A very useful place to start your company research on the Internet.

 Westlaw and Lexis Update: Summer Access

Lexis: Find out about summer access to Lexis (http://lawschool.lexis.com/offers/summer/index.html) for graduating students, unpaid externs (http://lawschool.lexis.com/offers/summer/access.htm), and returning students.

Westlaw: Westlaw is offering free access (up to two hours per month) all summer to returning students! Find out more about this and other Westlaw summer access offers (http://lawschool.westlaw.com/).

May 22: Investment Resources

Stockmaster 
(http://www.stockmaster.com/): Looking for current information about stocks? This site is a helpful resource. Find out which stocks were "Big Gainers", which "Big Losers", which the "Most Active", and which were the "Top Stocks". There is also a graph of recent market activity and related headlines.

InvestorWords 
(http://www.investorwords.com/): This financial glossary includes over 5000 terms. You can browse an alphabetic list of terms or search the glossary. Although the definitions are not lengthy, there are over 15000 links between related terms.

FundAlarm 
(http://www.fundalarm.com/): Updated on the first of each month, this site aims to assist investors deciding whether to sell or hold on to mutual funds. Find data tables, commentary and information about fund manager changes. Search or browse this database of over 3400 funds. Also, register for the free e-mail update service to keep up to date about your funds.

InvestMove.com 
(http://www.investmove.com/): Full of "top 10" lists of sources for investment information, use this site intended for investors and analysts as a jump-off point when conducting financial research. Top 10 lists include financial portals, market data sites, business newspaper and stock pick sites.

Salary.com  
(http://www.salary.com/): This site lets you check comparable salaries for the same position in different geographic areas. Also, want to know what the going rate is for a professional before you post a job or make an offer? This site is a great tool for you! If you are looking for a job, there is also a "negotiation clinic" to help you make the most of your opportunities!

May 30: Governments: U.S., U.K. & Ireland

Lawlinks 
(http://library.ukc.ac.uk/library/lawlinks/): 
Sarah Carter, Law Librarian at the Templeton Library, University of Kent, Canterbury, has collected and organized links to legal resources from around the world. The site is particularly useful for finding United Kingdom government agency Web sites, official publications, and also offers a great list of British legal abbreviations, including law reporters and journals.

British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) 
(http://www.bailii.org/): This site is the first on the Web to offer free access to case law and legislation from the United Kingdom, as well as Ireland. Fourteen databases are already available, with more to be added. The Australasian Legal Information Institute (http://www.austlii.edu.au) developed BAILII, where you can find British legal materials - very well organized and fully searchable.

Index Ireland (http://www.indexireland.com/): With a look and feel similar to Yahoo, this site is a useful resource for general, as well as government information about Ireland. There are links to sites from the Irish government Web sites, political parties, current issues, or you can search the entire site.

The Great American Web Site (http://www.uncle-sam.com/): This non-government Web site presents a gateway to United States Government resources on the Web. Broken down by branch (Executive, Legislative, Judicial, Executive and Independent Agencies), this site is easy to navigate and well organized, though not comprehensive.

GovSpot 
(http://www.govspot.com/): Another non-government sponsored site, this portal is another useful tool for locating U.S. government information on the Internet. Much larger collection of links than "The Great American Web Site," above. The links here also include state and local government resources.

June 5: Stay Connected This Summer! E-mail Access

Openmail web 
(https://hulaw5.law.harvard.edu:8087/OM/omhtml.cgi): You can directly access your HLS Openmail account via this Web interface. So, no matter where you are, all you need is an Internet connection to receive and send e-mail.

Mailstart 
(http://mailstart.com/): Access any POP e-mail account (including HLS accounts) via the Internet. Simply type in your e-mail address (i.e., smith@law.harvard.edu) and your password, and you have instant access to your e-mail account.

Mail2Web 
(http://mail2web.com/): No excuse for not keeping up with your e-mail correspondence! Here is yet another site where you can access any POP e-mail account simply by entering your e-mail user name and password!

June 12: Stay Connected This Summer! Virtual Hard Drives

Webbox 
(http://www.webbox.com/): With a free Webbox, you can access up to five e-mail accounts at the same time, store up to 20 MB, and access the Webbox Scheduler to keep track of appointments. Store your files in your Webbox and access them from any Web-connected terminal! No need to carry floppy disks around anymore!

Virtual Harddrives 
(http://superstone.freeservers.com/storage/vdrive.htm): As this Web page states, "Forget Floppys!" This list of free Internet virtual hard drives includes information on the amount of storage that each service offers. Take a look and select your favorite virtual hard drive to use while you are away from home and office this summer!

X:drive 
(http://www.xdrive.com/): Another virtual storage site, with a very useful feature. Download software from the site and you can access your X: drive files from your desktop just like files on your C drive! X: drive also offers wireless access (http://www.xdrive.com/company/wireless.html) to your files.

FreeDrive 
(http://www.freedrive.com/): Here is yet another free file storage site - with up to 50 MB of storage for each account!

June 20: Free Electronic Texts

Project Gutenberg 
(http://promo.net/pg/):This collection includes reference works as well as fiction and non-fiction titles. A great site with many e-texts, which you can browse or search by title and author.

Electronic Text Center 
(http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html): You will find reference materials (http://www.lib.virginia.edu/research_home.html) as well many foreign language e-texts. Some of the languages represented include French, Latin, German, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew and Spanish.

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts 
(http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/): From the University of California at Berkley, here is yet another site with many e-texts. Search the catalogue of online texts or browse by title and author. Links to other e-text collections are also provided.

Bartleby.com
(http://bartleby.com/): Choose reference, fiction and non-fiction works as well as poems at this easy to navigate and well organized site.

IPL Online Text Collection  
(http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/): Search, or browse this collection of over 12000 e-texts. A unique feature of this site is the ability to browse titles by Dewey Decimal Classification, just like scanning a "bricks and mortar" library shelf!

The Avalon Project 
(www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm): These "Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy" from Yale, include many treaties, state historical documents and other valuable historical texts.

June 26: Full-text Law Reviews on the Web

ALSO! U.S. Law Sources Online 
(http://www.lawsource.com/also/usa.cgi?usj): This site lists United States law reviews and periodicals on the Internet alphabetically by title.

CataLaw Legal Periodicals 
( http://www.catalaw.com/extra/Literature_Periodicals.shtml): An extensive, unannotated list of sites with full-text law reviews available on the Internet from around the world.

Findlaw Legal Subject Index 
(http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/index.html): Access this list of law reviews by subject, i.e., Administrative Law, Indian Law, Litigation, etc. So, if you are looking for a law review available on the Internet related to a specific topic, this is a useful site.

ILRG's Law Journals and Publications 
(http://www.ilrg.com/journals.html): In addition to an alphabetic list of journal titles, you can search the law reviews section of this site.

Washlaw Web Law Journals 
(http://www.washlaw.edu/lawjournal.html): Another site with an alphabetic list, which also offers a full-text journal article search!

July 5: Focus on the United States for July 4th

FindLaw Constitutional Law Center  
(http://supreme.findlaw.com): Looking for a copy of the Articles of Confederation? The Federalist Papers? Think the Web does not have historical (or pre-1995!) documents full-text? This useful Web site will challenge that assumption. There are numerous full-text historical documents, including landmark Supreme Court decisions, as well as related historical information.

Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project: 
A joint effort of the University of Oklahoma Library and the National Indian Law Library of the Native American Rights Fund, this site (http://thorpe.ou.edu/) includes full-text tribal constitutions and codes of many federally recognized tribes.

Clerk of the House of Representatives Historical Election Statistics:
No longer available in print, this site ( http://clerkweb.house.gov/histrecs/history/elections/elections.htm) provides Portable Document Format (.pdf) versions of federal presidential and congressional election results from 1920 through 1996.

American Factfinder: 
Presented by the United States Census Bureau, Factfinder (http://factfinder.census.gov), is a new data access and dissemination system which can find and retrieve information requested from the Census Bureau’s data sets. The site provides access to "Quick" items, where some data has already been summarized and you need only make one or two choices to customize the results, "Detailed" tables, where some geographic and data selections are required, and "Build a query," where you can create your own unique query of the data available from the Census Bureau.

Codification of Presidential Documents: Presented by the National Archives and Records Administration, this publication (http://www.nara.gov/fedreg/codhome.html ), formerly available in print, is now available only on-line. Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders beginning in 1945 and continuing through 1989 are accessible in full-text by Executive Order number or date as well as by chapters similar to those used in the Code of Federal Regulations and United States Code. A disposition table (covering through 1989) and a list of Executive Orders by number (beginning in 1962) are also included.

July 11: Redesigning Sites

Whitehouse  
(http://www.whitehouse.gov/): After six years, the Whitehouse site has been redesigned. Much of the substance of the site remains, but navigation has been revamped. The section of the site entitled, "Gateway to Government" (http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/html/handbook.html) is a useful starting point for locating federal government information on the Web.

Tarlton Law Library Legal Research on the Internet 
(http://www.law.utexas.edu/research/): From the University of Texas Law School Library, this guide to legal information on the Internet is well organized and is user friendly. Sections include federal law, Texas law as well as law by subject.

Cornell Law Library 
(http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawlibrary/): Newly redesigned, this site provides access to InSite, a current awareness service for legal resources available on the Internet. Also, there are guides to international law ( http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawlibrary/International_Resources/default.htm) and finding the law on specific topics 
( http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawlibrary/Finding_the_Law/Guides_by_Topic/default.htm).

July 17:

Jurist: The Law Professors’ Network 
(http://jurist.law.pitt.edu): The University of Pittsburgh School of Law presents this site focusing on resources for professors of law. United States legal news, U.S. Supreme Court news, world legal news, book reviews as well as law reviews and legal newspapers available full-text on the Internet are all accessible from the well-organized site.

Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research: 
One stop shopping for primary federal material on the Internet. Linking to many other sites, primarily academic institutions, the Georgia State University College of Law (http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex/) presents a user-friendly way to search federal case law and statutes available full-text on the Internet. A great place to start your U.S. legal research on the Internet.

Congressional Research Service WWW Accessible Reports:
Compiled by Gary Price at the George Washington University Library, this is a well-organized and useful collection of links (http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/crs.htm) to CRS reports available full-text on the Internet. Reports available cover many subjects, including the environment, foreign relations and military/intelligence.

IS2K Conference
(http://www.is2k.harvard.edu/): For anyone not familiar with the IS2K conference, held at Harvard biannually, it is dedicated to examining the Internet and its role in and effects upon our society. The conference Web site is still available. There you can see the program for this year, entitles "Changing our Lives", and find out about the speakers and panelists. As the entire conference was videotaped, you can now even view the taped panels and speeches via the IS2K Web site.

July 24: LLRX Guides

Beyond the Border: the Construction of the Chinese Legal Information System in Cyberspace: 
This guide (http://www.llrx.com/features/china.htm) written by Joan Liu, a librarian at NYU School of Law, includes a basic introduction to Chinese legal research as well as links to many online resources.

Guide to International Refugee Law Resources on the Web: 
Elisa Mason, who worked for the United Nations, presents this online guide to refugee law (http://www.llrx.com/features/refugee.htm).

An Overview of Estonian Law and Web Resources: Kart Miil, a reference librarian at Tartu University Library, presents an overview of the Estonian government and legal system (http://www.llrx.com/features/estonian.htm).

Researching Intellectual Property Law in the International Context: Stefanie Weigmann from Boston University School Law's library wrote this guide to international intellectual property law (http://www.llrx.com/features/iplaw.htm).

 August 14: Judicial Biographies

Judges of the United States Courts 
(http://air.fjc.gov/history/judges_frm.html): The Federal Judicial Center presents the Federal Judges Biographical Database, which contains biographical information for federal judges dating back to 1789. You can search the database or browse and alphabetic listing.

OYEZ, OYEZ, OYEZ: Current Justices  
(http://oyez.nwu.edu/justices/justices.cgi): Northwestern University's OYEZ project provides a list and biographical information about the current US Supreme Court Justices. You can also view a list of justices in order of appointment, an alphabetic list of justices as well as a searchable database of all justices.

State Court Web Sites  
(http://www.ncsc.dni.us/COURT/SITES/Courts.htm#state): Looking for information about state court judges? Try the state court Web sites, all nicely organized at the National Center for State Court's Web page.

 August 21: Tax Treaties

Income Tax Treaties
(http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/ind_info/treaties.html): The IRS provides the full-text of select United States tax treaties in portable document format. Treaties with Australia, China, Canada, France, Germany and India are among those available.

U.S. Tax Treaties/Publication 901 ( http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/forms_pubs/pubs/p901toc.htm): IRS publication 901, like many other IRS publications and forms, is available as full text on the Internet. So, if you need to check out Publication 901 regarding the application of tax treaties, try this helpful online version.

TaxResources: Tax Treaties 
(http://www.taxresources.com/html/taxsites/treaty.html): This one page provides links to many resources across the Internet related to United States tax treaties. You will find links to full-text tax treaties, income tax treaty tables and information about the United States tax treaty process.

Researching International Taxation ( http://www.law.umn.edu/library/tools/pathfinders/IntTax.htm): The University of Minnesota Law Library presents a very helpful bibliography of useful print resources for researching international tax issues. To find these resources at Harvard Law School Library, search for the items in HOLLIS (http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:holliswb/) and consult a reference librarian ( http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/services/research/index.php).

August 29: U.S. Court Web Sites & Listservs

Slip Opinion Listservers 
(http://www.llrx.com/columns/roundup2.htm): Yet another useful guide from the Law Library Resource Exchange (LLRX): Slip Opinion Listservers. Attorney Kathy Biehl has collected and annotated a list of links to sites where you can sign up to receive up to date e-mails (both free and for a fee) regarding newly issued opinions form courts form across the United States.

Federal Rulemaking 
(http://www.uscourts.gov/rules/): Looking for information about the federal rules of procedure and practice? Find links to information about the rule making process, proposed amendments to the federal rules, and the full text of the current rules and more are all available at this site from the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.

PIPERINFO: State and Local Government on the Net (http://www.piperinfo.com/state/index.cfm): With over 5000 links to state and local government, this is a great site to use when trying to locate state court information on the Internet. Organized by individual state and fully searchable, not only is this a comprehensive site, but it is also quite user friendly.

United State Federal Court Finder 
(http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDCTS/): If it is a federal court you are looking for, try this great site from Emory Law School. There is a "clickable" map of federal circuits with links to appellate and district courts. There are also links to the United State Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, as well as others.

September 5: U.S. Federal Government Reports and Statistics

FDIC Historical Statistics on Banking 
(http://www2.fdic.gov/hsob): The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) provides access to a database of annual statistical information on the banking industry beginning in 1934. Data from reports filed by commercial banks and savings institutions related to "Institution and Structure," "Financial Data - Income Statement" and "Financial Data - Balance Sheet." The site suggests that this data "can be used to identify and analyze long-term trends and to develop benchmarks to evaluate the current condition of the banking and thrift industries."

Community Health Status Indicators Project 
(http://www.communityhealth.hrsa.gov/): This site provides access to reports on health status in all 3,082 counties in the United States. Search for a specific county or for a county with certain population characteristics, i.e. a high percentage of particular ethnic populations. Reports can then be downloaded in Portable Document Format (.pdf). An option to compare with peer counties is also available, along with a guide to using the reports.

GrayLIT Network 
(http://www.osti.gov/graylit/): Ever searched for a government guidance or technical report? Now finding so-called "gray literature" just became a lot easier. This site, form the Department of energy's Office Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), you can search one or multiple Web database of this type of government publication. So far, among the agencies included in the database are the EPA, Department of Defense, Department of Energy and NASA.

Federal R&D Project Summaries 
(http://www.osti.gov/fedrnd/): Search more than 240,000 research and development (R&D) summaries from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy at this useful United States government sponsored site.

CIA World Factbook 2000  
(http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/): 
Here is the 2000 edition of Central Intelligence Agency Factbook, complete with more than 260 country profiles from around the globe. Images (.jpg) and maps (.pdf) are also available.

September 11: Focus on Asia

EurasiaNet 
(http://www.eurasianet.org/): For up-to-date news about Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as links to information about countries in the region, try this site. This well-designed and easy to use site is presented by the Central Asia Project of the Open Society Institute.

Beyond the Border: the Construction of the Chinese Legal Information System in Cyberspace (http://www.llrx.com/features/china.htm): Part of the Law Library Resource Exchange (LLRX) site, this guide introduces the basics of the Chinese legal system as well as listing sources for Chinese legal information, in print and online. Joan Liu, a librarian at New York University who holds a degree from China as well as a library degree from the U.S., authored this well organized and comprehensive guide.

Isinolaw.com  
(http://www.isinolaw.com/home.html): Billed as "the most comprehensive and Authoritative Reference for China Law", this site provides access to free resources as well as subscription only databases. Background information, statutes, information on several topics, including import and export plus more are all provided free of charge in English. To obtain access to a database of court decisions, however, you need to have a fee-based subscription.

Korean Legal Research Resources on the Internet (http://www.siu.edu/offices/lawlib/koreanlaw/): Try this up-to-date guide, in English, to find out about the Korean legal system as well as link over to full-text resources on the Internet. Heija B. Ryoo, Professor, Director of Library Systems and Technical Services, Southern Illinois University School of Law Library presents this well organized site which is geared toward Americans new to Korean legal research.

After the Crisis: The Social Contract and the Middle Class in East Asia ( http://beta.ceip.org/files/news/crisis.asp?from=newsnews): In Portable Document Format (.pdf), the full-text of this report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is now available on the Internet. The documents look at the impact of the 1997 Asian financial crisis on the urban middle class and the social contract in East Asia.

September 18: Find Out About...

Political Organizations: IRS Section 527 Search (http://www.irs.gov/bus_info/eo/posearch1.html): In this election year, find out about political organizations by searching or browsing this database of Section 527 filings. You can also view Form 8872 filings (http://www.irs.gov/bus_info/eo/posearch2.html) to see contributions and expenditures of political groups.

Businesses and Charities: Better Business Bureau  
(http://www.bbb.org/): The Better Business Bureau is now online. At this site, you can view reports about companies as well as charities. Find out if a company with which you are about to do business has had complaints about its practices. Look up a charity to see how they spend the money you donate. You can also file a complaint against a business and learn about the dispute resolution services available from the Better Business Bureau.

Famous Trials  
( http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm): Looking for information about a famous trial? The University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School's Professor Linder has pulled together resources related to many famous historic trials at this one incredibly useful site. Information about the Rosenberg Trials, Amistad Trials, as well as the OJ Simpson Trial and the Chicago Seven Conspiracy Trial plus many others are all available at this well organized site.

Duhaime's Law Dictionary  
(http://www.duhaime.org/diction.htm): Created by Canadian lawyer Lloyd Duhaime, this easy to use legal dictionary is primarily aimed at the lay person, but would be helpful for a law student or legal professional looking at an area of law or legal term for the first time. Hyperlinks allow you easy access to any legal terms used as part of a definition as well.

September 25: Presidential Papers Plus

Harry S. Truman Library and Museum 
(http://www.trumanlibrary.org/): One of the ten presidential libraries administered by the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA), this site houses a wealth of information related to President Truman and the world events which occurred during his time at the White House. There are electronic documents, photographs, and chronology of world history as well as Truman's life.

George Washington Papers 
(http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/): From the manuscript division of the Library of Congress, take a look at the papers of the first President at this well-organized site. An incredible 65,000 documents are presented as approximately 152,000 images. Included are diaries, correspondence, financial papers, and many other documents dating from 1697.

FDR Papers 
(http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/): Access 10,000 digitized documents from Roosevelt's time in the Oval Office. Not only will you find full-text documents from Roosevelt's files, but there are also photographs, indexes, and finding aids as well as audio files available so you can listen to his voice.

NARA Presidential Libraries  
(http://www.nara.gov/nara/president/address.html): Find out about the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Presidential Libraries Program. Also, link to the ten presidential libraries administered by NARA: Bush, Carter, Eisenhower, Ford, Hoover, Johnson, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan, and Truman. Each library provides a wealth of online resources about the president as well the time in history in which he served.

October 2: United States Government Information

FirstGov 
(http://www.firstgov.gov/): The "official Web site for searching for U.S. government" information debuted recently to mixed reviews. With a Yahoo-like feel, you can browse through categories or search government Web space for the information you seek. There are also links to state and local government resources.

Supreme Court of the United States Docket 
(http://www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/docket.html ): Current and prior term docket information on both decided and pending cases is now available at the official United States Supreme Court site. Search by docket number or keywords.

A Century of Law Making for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1883 
(http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/): Another historical source on the Web from the Library of Congress. Find Journals of the Continental Congress, the House Journal, the Senate Journal, and the Register of Debates. Browse or search the entire collection.

Ancestry.com: Census Records 
(http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/census/): This site aimed at those researching genealogy includes useful records form the 1790 and 1860 United States' censuses which can be searched or browsed.

United States Census State and County Quick Facts  
(http://www.census.gov/qfd/): For commonly requested census related information, the Bureau of the Census presents this easy to navigate well-organized site. View census information for the federal, state or county level.

October 10: Environmental Sites

HUD Environmental Maps E-maps 
(http://www.hud.gov/emaps/): This site contains searchable maps which combine information on HUD’s community development and housing programs with EPA’s environmental data. You can find out, by entering your zip code, which local properties are part of various environmental programs such as the Brownsfields Tax Incentive Zones.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs(http://laws.fws.gov/): Link to the full-text of Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) congressional testimony, track legislation of interest to the FWS, and view documents related to the legal authority under which the FWS operates all at this interesting site.

PAN: Pesticide Action Network Database  
(http://www.pesticideinfo.org/): Use this database to find information about the toxicity, ecotoxicity, and regulations concerning over 5,100 pesticides.

Water Words Dictionary 
(http://www.state.nv.us/cnr/ndwp/dict-1/waterwds.htm): This "Compilation of Technical Water, Water Quality, Environmental, and Water-Related Terms" is presented by the Nevada Division of Water Planning. Access this useful and recently updated dictionary in Portable Document Format (.pdf).

Global Environmental Change
(http://www.gecko.ac.uk/index.html): The bulk of this site consists of three research reports by Global Environmental Change (GEC). The reports entitled, "Risky Choices, Soft Disasters", "Who Governs the Global Environment", and "Producing Greener, Consuming Smarter" are all available full-text in Portable Document Format (.pdf).

The Environmental Fate Data Bases (EFDB)
(http://esc.syrres.com/efdb.htm): This site consists of five separate databases: DATALOG (a bibliographic database containing environmental fate data); BIOLOG (database of microbial toxicity and biodegradation data); CHEMFATE (database of information related to "commercially important chemical compounds"); BIODEG (database of experimental data of biodegradation); and, BIODEG Summary (database of summaries related to biodegradation). Presented by the Environmental Protection Agency in partnership with Proctor & Gamble, DuPont, and Syracuse Research Corporation, this free database contains information for assessing human exposure to chemical compounds.

October 16: Native American Focus

American Indian History and Related Issues (http://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/index.html#north): From this page you can link to several useful resources related to the history of North America's native people. Events covered include the Alcatraz occupation as well as more recent and as pre-1600 events. In addition, you can find out about non-federally recognized tribes.

Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties 
(http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/ ): From Oklahoma State University, this is a well-organized and useful site, which consists of a digitized version of Charles J. Kappler's, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, originally published as three volumes in 1903-1904. You can search each volume or view the table of contents. You can also search all three volumes simultaneously ( http://digital.library.okstate.edu/search/search.asp).

American Indian Resources
  (http://jupiter.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~krkvls/naindex.html): A great place to start your search for Native American resources on the Internet, this site consists of links to resources and research program related to Native Americans from across the globe.

November 6: U.S. Presidential Elections

Campaign 2000 Video Search from Lexis-Nexis
http://www.lexis-nexis.com/lncc/general/campaign2000 : New and "neat," Lexis offers access to campaign speech video by keyword, topic, and candidate. The video content is the C-SPAN archive of campaign appearances by the presidential candidates. To view a video, you must have RealPlayer installed on your computer. (RealPlayer Basic is free and available at www.realplayer.com.)

Commission on Presidential Debates
http://www.debates.org: The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) provides full transcripts of the four Bush-Gore debates in seven languages. Dates and facts for historical presidential elections are also provided. CPD is a nonprofit corporation that provides assistance to members of emerging democracies interested in establishing debate traditions in their countries.

The Gallup Poll - Election 2000
http://www.gallup.com: From the Gallup Organization, this site offers poll surveys and analyses on many topics including the presidential election. The front page features a continuous presidential tracking poll that Gallup has been conducting in conjunction with CNN and USA Today. The tracking began on Labor Day and will continue through the weekend before November 7. Poll results are also available on the performance of the President, the U.S. Congress, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

History of American Presidential Elections
http://www.multied.com/elections: In addition to some playful graphics, this site presents information about each of the U.S. presidential elections from 1789 to 1996. For each election, popular and electoral vote results, turnout, and a map of the states carried by each candidate are presented in charts and tables.

Project Vote Smart
http://www.vote-smart.org/index.phtml : For the enlightenment of voters, this Web site presents federal and state candidate position statements, campaign finance statistics, biographies, voting history, and voting correlation with special interest group positions. In addition, ballot measures for each state are presented with analysis. Coverage of ballot measures for the past few elections is provided for most states.

Voting and Registration from the Census
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/voting.html: The U.S. Census Bureau collects statistics on self-reported voting by demographic and socioeconomic characteristics such as race, age, gender, geographical region, educational attainment, income, and occupational grouping. Tables for 1994, 1996, 1998, and historical tables covering 1964-1998 are available. Projections of the characteristics of the voting-age population for November 2000 have been produced in anticipation of the election.

November 13: U.S. Court Docket Information

Supreme Court of the United States Docket
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/docket.html: Complete U.S. Supreme Court docket information is retrievable by docket number, party name or keyword from this official U.S. Supreme Court Web site, including date of filing for all party and amicus briefs, attorney names and contact information, orders and disposition by the Court. Coverage is presently limited to the current and most recently concluded term.

U.S. Supreme Court Monitor from law.com
http://www.law.com/us_supreme_ct: Law.com, a legal news site, includes a section devoted to news about the U.S. Supreme Court gathered from a variety of sources and summaries of the Court's decisions from the current and most recent past term. Access the "Cert. Granted" area to browse dockets by order of scheduled argument date, or those not yet scheduled for argument. Searching by keyword is not available but it is possible, however, to browse for cases granted certiorari by thirteen broad legal topics. For each pending case, the name, docket number, date granted cert., question presented, and counsel contact information is provided.

Supreme Court Center from the Washington Post
http://washingtonpost.findlaw.com/supreme_court/resources.html: The Washington Post in conjunction with Findlaw offers this site devoted exclusively to the U.S. Supreme Court. Similar in scope and content to Law.com's Supreme Court site described above, it provides more information for pending cases and employs more topics (seventeen) for categorizing cert. granted cases. For most cases, links to lower court opinions, oral argument transcripts, the Court's docket sheet, and associated briefs in full text are provided. Briefs are scanned in as image files (Adobe's PDF) and are sometimes available as converted-into-text files using OCR technology. To browse cases granted certiorari by topic, access the "Case Index." In addition to docket information, the site features guides for petitioners filing a writ of certiorari, the Court calendar, and Court rules.

Court Rules, Forms, and Dockets from LLRX.com
http://www.llrx.com/courtrules/: LLRX.com (Law Library Resource Xchange, LLC), a legal research site, offers this locator for state and federal court rules, forms, and dockets. Either search by keyword or browse for information by jurisdiction, court type (high, appellate, trial, bankruptcy, or tax), or type of resource. LLRX.com provides no original content; it merely directs users to what is made available by the courts, which vary widely in their commitment to providing free access to docket information. Although some courts, such as the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, various districts of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, and the New Hampshire Supreme Court make their dockets available free of charge, most state and federal courts rely on a fee-based system called PACER, Public Access to Court Electronic Records. Consequently, this site is useful primarily for determining whether a court makes its docket freely available on the Web rather than as a sure information source for dockets.

November 20: Free E-mail Current Awareness Services

U.S. Supreme Court Decisions from USSC+
http://www.usscplus.com/forms/emailreg.html: Through its Web site USSC+, the commercial publisher InfoSynthesis offers free e-mails of U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Register to receive short summaries of cases on the same day the decisions are handed down. Links to full decisions are provided.

Decisions from Selected Courts from Findlaw
http://newsletters.findlaw.com: Findlaw offers e-mail summaries of decisions from 16 courts. Select from the U.S. Supreme Court, the 13 Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals, the California Supreme Court and the New York Court of Appeals. E-mails are sent on the same day the decisions are handed down. Links to full opinions are provided. Findlaw also offers weekly e-mail newsletters summarizing decisions organized by legal subject. Use the form provided to select any or all of fourteen legal topics. Topical newsletters contain summaries of decisions from the 16 courts listed above.

New Public Laws Notification from the Office of the Federal Register
The Office of the Federal Register and the General Services Administration offer Public Law Electronic Notification Service (PENS), a free e-mail notification of new public laws. The Office of the Federal Register is responsible for processing laws signed by the President. When the law arrives at the Federal Register Office, editors list its bill number, assign its public law number, and list the name of the act, approval date, and U.S. Statutes at Large page citation. All of this information is included in the e-mail. The service is irregular; however, arriving only when new federal legislation is passed and processed. To subscribe, or unsubscribe, use the form at http://listserv.gsa.gov/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=publaws-l&A=1.

Developments in International Law from ASIL
The American Society of International Law offers International Law in Brief (ILIB), a weekly e-mail newsletter prepared by the editors of International Legal Materials. ILIB covers developments in international law with abstracts of recent decisions, agreements, and reports. Links to the documents are provided. ILIB is available at a Web site as well, see http://www.asil.org/ilibindx.htm. To subscribe to International Law In Brief, send an e-mail to majordomo@his.com and put subscribe ilm in the message box area. Leave the subject line of the e-mail blank. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail message to majordomo@his.com and put unsubscribe ilm in the message box area.

Developments in Internet and Technology Law
Offered by Sensei Enterprises (a consulting company) and the law firm of Nelson & Wolfe, Bytes in Brief is a monthly e-mail newsletter, which covers developments in Internet and technology law. It contains abstracts of decisions and analytical summaries of news events with links to cases or longer sources. To subscribe, use the form provided at http://www.senseient.com/maillist.htm. The Bytes in Brief mailing list is not sold or otherwise distributed to third parties.

Topical Newsletters from Findlaw
http://newsletters.findlaw.com: Findlaw offers weekly e-mail newsletters on Employment Law, Sports Law, Entertainment Law, and Class Actions. Newsletters contain short summaries of news, case law, and articles. Links to source documents are provided. A daily e-mail service of "top legal headlines" is also available.

December 4: SEC Filings

10K Wizard
http://www.tenkwizard.com/: Retrieve SEC filings from approximately 68,000 companies by ticker symbol, company name, industry, keyword, or date. Search for forms by type; Annual Reports, Registration Statements, 13F-Related, etc., or by specific form; S-1, 10-Q, 425, etc. Content is derived from EDGAR, described below. Filings are delivered with a linked header and pull-down menu of contents. View any section of the filing by using the pull-down menu. The entire filing may be viewed by selecting "entire filing" from the header. To e-mail results, users must register with the site. There are no fees to register. Once registered, users may create a series of "Alerts" through which they receive e-mail notifications when new SEC filings meet their criteria.

EDGAR Database of Corporate Information
http://www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm: EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system) is the database of electronic filings of publicly held companies from the Securities and Exchange Commission. During 1993-1996, SEC phased in requirements for companies to file electronically in EDGAR. Since 1996, companies must file in EDGAR, unless they qualify for a hardship exemption. Consequently, coverage of the database begins in 1994, but varies by company. EDGAR documents are searchable by header information only: company name, SIC code, address, state of incorporation, central index key, SEC file number, ticker symbol, and form type. Many Web sites layer more advanced search features onto this publicly-available database, including 10K Wizard and EdgarScan, mentioned here.

EdgarScan: An Intelligent Interface to EDGAR from Price Waterhouse Coopers
http://edgarscan.pwcglobal.com/servlets/edgarscan: EdgarScan layers advanced display properties onto SEC's Edgar database. Search for filings by ticker symbol or company name. Results for each company are lists of SEC filings and a constructed balance sheet. EdgarScan automatically extracts key financial data from SEC filings and arranges the data into a standard form. View this information in an Excel spreadsheet or a "hypertextual table" in which each piece of data is linked to that portion of the SEC filing from which it was extracted. The "Benchmarking Assistant", a java applet, provides graphical portrayals of financial data over time. For example, view bar charts or pie graphs of Receivables Turnover, Shareholder's Equity, Research to Revenues, or 72 other factors. The site also allows browsing of IPOs by industry, company or date.

SEC's Guide to Corporate Filings
http://www.sec.gov/edaux/forms.htm: The Securities and Exchange Commission presents short descriptions of about 75 of the most common corporate filings. Contents, requirements, and timing of filings are briefly explained in this glossary of form types.

December 11: Presidential Election 2000:
Legal Documents

United States Supreme Court Web Page: Florida Election Cases http://www.supremecourtus.gov/florida.html: The Supreme Court has speedily added to its Web page all documents associated with the presidential election lawsuit, including transcripts of oral arguments. There are about 50 full text documents available under the following headings: Petitions, Oppositions,Replies, etc.; Disposition of Petitions; Briefs on the Merits; Joint Appendix; Briefs for Amici Curiae; Oral Argument; and Opinion. Documents are pdf files, a page-image format through which all page numbering is preserved.

Findlaw's Election Center 2000
http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/us/election/election2000.html: A comprehensive starting point to access presidential election litigation documents, Findlaw has organized the materials by case, by date. For each of the more than twenty lawsuits, a short description is provided followed by links to documents in pdf format. Audio files of oral arguments in Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board are available as MP3 and Real Audio files. Relevant precedent, related Florida statutes, a chronology of lawsuits, and news items are also provided.

Election Cases Documents from the Florida State Courts
http://www.flcourts.org/: Presidential election litigation documents from Florida courts are provided by case, by date. Coverage is even more comprehensive than Findlaw's. Documents include final opinions, briefs and petitions on the merits, case disposition orders, and review granted orders.

Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw Coverage of the Presidential Election

Lexis-Nexis

Source Name: Newsworthy Litigation Documents
Library and File: HOTTOP;EXTRA
"Key" presidential election litigation documents have been loaded into the Newsworthy Litigation Documents file. Use HOTTOP;EXTRA to search across grouped election litigation documents by keyword. Note that this source is not exclusive to presidential election litigation documents. For a list of election litigation documents in the source, see http://www.lexis-nexis.com/lncc/custserv/elect2000.html. This page also notes the citations which can be used with the "Get a Document" or "Lexsee" command to retrieve a specific document.

 Westlaw

Database Name: Presidential Election Litigation 2000
Database Identifier: PRESLIT-DOC
More comprehensive in coverage than its Lexis-Nexis counterpart, the PRESLIT-DOC database contains about 300 presidential election litigation documents filed with the Circuit and Supreme Courts of Florida, U.S. District Court, S.D. Florida, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. To view a list of included documents in reverse chronological order, use "READ" as your search term.

December 18: Federal Rules of Procedure & Evidence

Federal Rulemaking 
http://www.uscourts.gov/rules/: From the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and the Judicial Conference, this is a comprehensive starting point for background on individual rules and on the rulemaking process as a whole. It offers a detailed explanation of the procedures of the Judicial Conference in amending federal rules; Judicial Conference Advisory Committee membership; committee schedules, agendas, and materials for meetings; proposed rule amendments for comment; histories of committee actions on individual rules; rules submitted by advisory committees to the Judicial Conference and the U.S. Supreme Court; rules approved by the Supreme Court and submitted to the House Judiciary Committee; the report explaining the amendments; and a list of pending legislation affecting federal rules.

Rules in Effect from the House Judiciary Committee
http://www.house.gov/judiciary/docs105.htm: After the Chief Justice approves the amendments proposed by the Judicial Conference, the rules and the accompanying report are sent to the House Judiciary Committee, which publishes the new version of the rules as Committee Prints. The prints contain the rules in effect, with forms, collective historical notes, and sections of the U.S. Code bearing on the rulemaking process. The House Judiciary Committee has made these prints available for the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, and Evidence for 1998, 1999, and 2000. (The report accompanying the proposed amendments approved by the Chief Justice are published as House Documents. They are available for the current year at the Federal Rulemaking site described above.)

Federal Rules from Cornell's LII
Federal Rules of Evidence  
http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp
Browse the rules using tables of contents or search the full text. The search feature works well. The rules available from the LII are fairly current. The amendments which took effect on December 1st are still separate from the text, but are available for viewing.

Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
http://www.courtrules.org/frc.htm: Judge Richard E. Standridge, of Division 25 of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, maintains a browseable version of the Rules of Criminal Procedure. This site is updated on a consistent basis, but does not yet include the amendments which took effect on December 1, 2000. Judge Standridge also maintains a version of the Federal Rules of Evidence and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Some may prefer his simpler versions to the frame-based versions available at Cornell's LII.

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