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St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio has posted Supreme Court of Texas cases on iTunes.
See Supreme Court of Texas Cases Available on St. Mary´s iTunes U by Beth Barbee (10-November-2009):
Supreme Court of Texas Cases Available on St. Mary´s iTunes U
Date: 2009-11-10     Author: Beth Barbee
Since 2006, St. Mary’s University School of Law and [...]

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USA.gov, which provides official information and services from the United States Government, has recently organized federal government blogs by subject.
Under the current organization there are 11 categories:

Business and Economics Blogs: Small business owners, economics news…
Defense and International Relations Blogs: Military, foreign policy, veterans…
Environment, Energy, and Agriculture Blogs: Agriculture, environmental protection, saving energy…
Family, Home, and Community [...]

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[Originally posted by Erika Wayne on LegalResearchPlus]

Meet  RECAP (http://recapthelaw.org) – Be impressed.  Very impressed.
PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) documents sit behind a pay-wall; however, these are public record documents, so once a document has been retrieved from PACER, it may be freely shared.
RECAP  enables us to easily share federal court documents. The goal of [...]

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A new Brief Guide to Low/No Cost Online American Legal Research has been posted in the law library’s Online Research section.

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Free access to some two million eBooks — through August 4, 2009 — is available at the Fourth Annual World eBook Fair (underway since July 4).
See:
Resource of the Week: Roundup of Recent Posts About eBooks…and Some Kindle Stuff
Hat tip to ResourceShelf.
Cross-posted on LegalResearchPlus.

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Indo-European Languages Tutorials is  a free site for learning twelve European languages. Grammar tips, verb conjugations, noun declensions, and vocabulary are available for French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Russian, Ukrainian, and Croatian. These tutorials are geared toward learning how to read the languages, but the French site includes audio files to help with pronunciation.  
 
Indo-European Languages [...]

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Online books from the Google Book Search project are now available for viewing on devices with smaller screens. 18 categories are available including drama, mystery, history, and classics.
Google Books for mobile devices: http://books.google.com/m

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[cross-posted on LegalResearchPlus]
In the World Digital Library, a coalition of national libraries and UNESCO have put some of humanity’s earliest written works online Tuesday, “not to compete with Google or Wikipedia but to pique young readers’ interest — and get them reading books.” They reportedly include ancient Chinese oracle bones and the first European map [...]

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Paul Lomio has a new article in Speaking of Computers on “Law Journals and Open Access: A Call to Action.”  Read it here.
As Paul writes: “It would be a better legal information world if researchers could reliably turn to the host law school for any law journal from that school and find all of its [...]

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