Readers of this blog may have come across news stories of the Authors Guild suing various university libraries comprising the HathiTrust for digitizing copyrighted works and their plan to make orphan works available to their user communities. It was merely…
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The WestSearch Straitjacket For Legal Research – Thinking Beyond The Keyword: Part II
14
Sep
In Part 1, we examined evidence for two kinds of limitations on WestSearch’s effectiveness. Ron Wheeler has studied limitations related to how WestSearch ranks documents for importance and relevance. (Does WestlawNext Really Change Everything?, 103 Law Libr. J. 359 (2011))…
Massacre in the Executive Suite of Thomson Reuters Markets: Is TRI’s Cash Cow, TR Legal, Next?
13
Sep
Devin Wenig, a 17 year veteran at Reuters and CEO of TR’s Markets Divison, was given the boot in July 2011 just ahead of the release of TRI’s 2Q 2011 financial report. It came with a “wish you the best”…
Time for "Robust Consumer Advocacy Equal to AALL’s Promise:" Consumer Advocacy Caucus Issues a Call to Support the Group’s Petition for AALL Recognition
12
Sep
On September 10th, the Library Consumer Advocacy Causus published the petition it will submit to AALL’s Executve Board for Caucus recognition. To allow the Board sufficient time to place the matter on its November meeting agenda, the Caucus is calling…
Who Is Buying WestlawNext?
12
Sep
As we all know WestlawNext was launched in February 2010. Every quarterly report by TRI since then has reported WLN sales and beginning with 3Q 2010 WLN sales as a percent of Westlaw revenue. See below (Note: customer numbers are…
Vote for the Best and Worst Law Product Mergers
09
Sep
Jean O’Grady has launched a poll for law librarians (and others) to assess the consequences of the legal publishing industry consolidation for once independently owned but now “brand” products of Thomson Reuters, Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer. Jean writes I…
What Will Your Firm Stop Buying In Five Years? How About Vendor Content Tied to Their Search Engines
08
Sep
That’s the question asked and answered in another installment of 3 Geek’s Elephant Posts series. While all answeres were interesting, the response that got me thinking about the future was by Mark Gediman: Q. What will your firm stop buying…
The WestSearch Straitjacket For Legal Research – Thinking Beyond The Keyword: Part I
07
Sep
Thomson Reuters – Legal (TR Legal) advertises sweeping claims for the benefits of WestlawNext (WN) at Customers. WestlawNext.com. Given the scale of the advertising blitz, these claims merit careful examination. Though it remains too early to reach a conclusion, initial…
Legal Information Institute and CALI Partner to Publish Free eBooks
06
Sep
So, it looks like my first post on Law Librarian Blog since I started working for a publisher/vendor/partner in legal information is going to be….to promote one of our products. Awkward. But it’s a FREE product! Does that help? I…
