Blogs RSS - Newsreaders

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Blogs – RSS - Newsreaders

My Yahoo: Automatic update of saved weblogs and other sites with RSS feeds.

http://my.yahoo.com/

Google Reader: Automatic update of saved weblogs and other sites with RSS feeds.

http://www.google.com/reader/

Bloglines: Automatic update of saved weblogs and other sites with RSS feeds, organized in folders and viewable at one site.

http://bloglines.com/

Watch That Page: WatchThatPage is a service that enables you to automatically collect new information from your favorite pages on the Internet. You select which pages to monitor, and WatchThatPage will find which pages have changed, and collect all the new content for you. The new information is presented to you in an email and/or a personal web page.

http://watchthatpage.com/

BlogPulse: Find weblogs by URL or key word.

http://www.blogpulse.com/

Blawgs: Search for legal related weblogs.

http://www.blawg.org/

Technorati: Extensive blog search engine.

http://technorati.com/

Kebberfegg: Generate keyword-based feeds across multiple sources

http://www.researchbuzz.org/tools/kebberfegg.pl

Search Engines

Google: A broad search engine

www.google.com

Google: I’m Feeling Lucky: Select this button to go to the first site associated with your search terms

www.google.com

Google Groups: Search usenet groups to develop background

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Google Local: Find types of businesses within a geographical area

www.local.google.com

Google: How to search

http://news.google.com/help/refinesearch.html

Google: All the site features

http://news.google.com/help/index.html

Google: Scholar: Search specialty publications

http://scholar.google.com/

Google: News: Search news, through the past month

http://news.google.com/advanced_news_search?hl=en&ned=us

Google: Suggest: Type in a word and find out how many times it’s indexed

http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

Google: Search Results: How to interpret a search result page

http://news.google.com/help/interpret.html

Yahoo: Only about 50% overlap with Google

http://www.yahoo.com/

Yahoo News:

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/advanced

Yahoo : My Yahoo: Customize your news and Yahoo Groups

http://my.yahoo.com/

Dogpile.com: All the best search engines piled into one.

http://dogpile.com/

ZoomInfo: Business executives background.

http://www.zoominfo.com

Copernic: Desktop search and meta search tool.

http://www.copernic.com/

Clusty: Meta search engine – see search results across all major search engines.

http://clusty.com/

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Profusion: Meta Search Engine

http://www.profusion.com/index.htm

Internet Archive: Historical versions of web pages

http://web.archive.org/collections/web/advanced.html

TVeyes: Search text within TV broadcasts

http://www.tveyes.com/

Blinkx.tv: Search text within TV broadcasts

http://www.blinkx.tv/

Multi-subject Guide to Specialized Search Engines

http://www.searchability.com/

Find Public Records

SearchSystems: Online since 1997, Search Systems continues to be by far the largest and best directory of free public record databases on the Internet.

http://www.searchsystems.net/

Pretrieve: A public records search engine that pre-searches your search name and retrieves the public record information.

http://www.pretrieve.com

CourthouseDirect: Download digital images of Deeds, Mortgages, Liens, Abstracts of Judgment, Releases and other county courthouse documents.

http://courthousedirect.com/

Zaba Search: Free person locate and personal information search site.

http://www.zabasearch.com/

VineLink: Directory of state criminal indices

http://www.vinelink.com/index.jsp

Social Security Death Index

http://www.stevemorse.org/ssdi/ssdi.html

PI buzz: Topical discussion with links to public records, databases and news related to the investigations community

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Legal Research

FindLaw Case Summaries Search: FindLaw archives summaries of opinions issued since September, 2000 by the U.S.Supreme Court, all thirteen Federal Circuit Courts, the California Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, and the New York Court of Appeals.

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/casesummary/index.html

LexisOne: Free case law for the past 5 years.

http://www.lexisone.com/caselaw/freecaselaw?action=FCLDisplayCaseSearchForm&l1loc=L1 LR

Legal Information Institute: Legal Definitions with case citations

http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Main_Page

Government Research

FirstGov.gov: Portal to government web pages and documents.

http://www.firstgov.gov/

Topical search example: Find current federal sentencing guidelines.

Go to specialty search engine: FirstGov: http://www.firstgov.gov/

Federal laws and regulations:

http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Laws.shtml

Federal Judicial Branch: http://www.firstgov.gov/Agencies/Federal/Judicial.shtml

Sentencing Commission: http://www.ussc.gov/

Or just search by “sentencing” in search box. GPO Access: Search across multiple government databases

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/multidb.html

Find sites by topic: http://www.library.okstate.edu/govdocs/browsetopics/cjustice.html

Topic: “Criminal Justice’:

http://www.library.okstate.edu/govdocs/browsetopics/cjustice.html

National Criminal Justice Reference Service: Scholarly studies and surveys produced by the U.S. government

http://www.ncjrs.org/

Military Records:

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https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/scra/owa/home

Libraries – Specialty Resources

San Jose Public Library: Online access to LegalTrac. Search legal and law review publications contents for the past 25 years.

http://www.sjlibrary.org/

California Library Directory: Find the local, law and specialty libraries.

http://www.library.ca.gov/html/main.cfm

Index to Library Catalogues:

http://www.libdex.com/

Librarians’ Internet Index

http://lii.org/

American Society of Criminology: Periodicals, libraries and topical links

http://www.asc41.com/

Florida State School of Criminology: Topical links

http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/p/cjl-main.php

Michigan State Criminal Justice Resources

http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/crimjust/

Criminal Justice Mega Sites:

http://faculty.ncwc.edu/TOConnor/linklist.htm

Experts

JurisPro: A free resource to find and research expert witnesses. JurisPro maintains a database of over 75,000 expert witnesses, and provides a free online directory of expert witnesses in over 4000 areas of expertise. The directory includes the expert’s full curriculum vitae, contact information, link to their web site, photo and voice, articles, references, and prior litigation experience.

http://www.jurispro.com/

ExpertPages: Does not include resumes.

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ExpertWitness: No name search at site. To search by name: Enter URL in the specified search box in the Google advanced search. Enter the last name of the expert in the search box, “with all of the words”.

http://www.expertwitness.com/

Find a library: Find background on an expert through a periodicals search at an online library index

http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/

Google Groups: Search by expert name, email, business name and/or area of expertise to find a mention of those terms in the archive of public message boards.

http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?q=&

FindArticles: Search academic and industry publications by keyword or author.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/advanced?tb=art

Saving and Sharing Your Work

Nextaris: Save websites as an alternative to “favorites”