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28 Legal Info. Alert 1 (2009)

handle is hein.lbr/leinfal0028 and id is 1 raw text is: Vhat's new in legal publications, databases, and research techniques Volume 28, No. 1 January 2009 Contents UPDATE XXV. What's New on Westlaw, Lexisfexis®, HemOnline, and Loislaw 1 New Sources 10 Call for Nominations 14 Publishers 15 Index 15 UPDATE XXV: What's New on Westlaw, LexisNexis®, HeinOnline, and Loislaw by Stacey L. Gordon Westlaw Additions, Changes, and Enhancements West nutshells and hornbooks are now available on Westlaw. Over 100 titles from West's® Nutshell Series® and more than 25 hornbook titles will be available, with tables of contents. Searches in nutshell and hornbook databases include ResultsPlus® results. User documentation is now available on 14 Westlaw tabbed pages. On these 14 pages, the Shortcuts frame contains links to topic research guides, database lists, and Westlaw user guides. For researchers using hourly billing, billing is suspended while the viewer is using the user guides. User documentation is available on these tabbed pages: Bankruptcy Practitioner, Business Practitioner, Commercial, Employment Practitioner, Environmental Practitioner, Estate Planning Practitioner, Family Law Practitioner, Government Contracts, Immigration Practitioner, Labor and Employment, Patent Practitioner, Pension and Retirement, Real Property Practitioner. and Securities Practitioner. The new U.S. GAO Federal Legislative Histories (FED-LH) database greatly simplifies the process of compiling a federal legislative history. Researchers only need know the public law number or name of the act to retrieve a compiled legisla- tive history. Alternatively, researchers can obtain a compiled legislative history if they know only a report number, Congressional Record citation, or hearing number. GAO Federal Legislative Histories are also available on the Federal Legislative Histories tab and in the Links tab for selected public laws and statutes. Compiled legislative histories contain links to PDF views of the fulltext documents. The data- base currently contains more than 9,300 compiled legislative histories for acts passed between 1924 and 1995, and will eventually contain more than 20,000 compiled legislative histories. Two new tools have been incorporated into Westlaw 50 State Surveys® that allow researchers to customize surveys and expand their research results. West Survey Builder allows researchers to build a survey using a template to select a topic, specific question, and jurisdiction(s). Survey Builder compiles a survey of relevant statutes and jurisdictions. Survey Authority expands 50 State Surveys to include state statutes, caselaw, administrative regulations, attorney general opinions, ALR® annotations, treatises and law reviews, and insurance bulletins. Survey Authority reports are currently available for issues in corporations, environmental law, continued on page 3

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