It appears that Jureeka! is now powered by Cornell's Legal Information Institute (LII).

Jureeka! is a Firefox plugin that turns legal citations in web pages into hyperlinks that point to online legal source material. It's great for quickly locating statutes, case law, regulations, federal court rules, international law sources, and more.

We've installed Jureeka! on our public workstations in the law library. It allows users to click right into cases, etc when the citation appears on any web page.

Posted by Bonnie Shucha at 9:42 AM | Permalink

Will publishing your work in an open access publication generate more readership and citations? Yes and no, according to a Cornell University study.

Using a sample of open access journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, the authors found that such articles received significantly more downloads and reached a broader audience within the first year, yet were cited no more frequently, nor earlier, than subscription-access control articles within 3 years.

Full cite: Open access, readership, citations: a randomized controlled trial of scientific journal publishing, Philip M. Davis, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Hat tip to beSpacific

Posted by Bonnie Shucha at 10:16 AM | Permalink

Are you a Zotero user looking to contribute to the community? Need to make Zotero work for you? [What is Zotero?]

On Monday, April 11th, join Zotero community developer Avram Lyon, the primary translator reviewer who's helped to create many translators and has developed for Multilingual Zotero, to learn more about Translator Creation, Citation Style Language, the Zotero API, and using Zotero for your own scholarly endeavors.

Join him for one or all of the following sessions:

Translator Creation
Monday, April 11th
10:00am - 11:30am
Room 126, Memorial Library, UW Madison

Translators allow Zotero to detect and pull in citation information from web sites, including library catalogs, databases...you name it. The great thing is that if you create a new translator or make changes to an existing one, these updates can be bundled with subsequent Zotero releases to help others with their scholarly endeavors. You can also use the translators you create locally on your computer.

Citation Style Language
Monday, April 11th
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Room 126, Memorial Library, UW Madison

CSL is an XML language that allows you to create new citation and bibliographic styles. Many of the styles you know and use now within Zotero are created by community developers. If you need one that is not currently present in Zotero's CSL library, you can create your own - and this portion of the workshop will show you how to do that.

Mashups using Zotero's API and Leveraging Zotero for new scholarly endeavors
Monday, April 11th
3:00pm - 4:30 pm
Room 126, Memorial Library, UW Madison

This session will show talk about manipulating parameters to feed various items and collections into other applications like Omeka, Wordpress, Googlereader, or one you create yourself! Some neat possibilities with Zotero include the crowdsourcing of transcription, metadata creation or the cleaning up of "bad" metadata as a group project.

Prerequisites
To fully participate in these workshops, we ask that participants are comfortable with HTML.

Registration
All sessions are open the public, but please email aerauh@engr.wisc.edu if you plan to attend.

Posted by Bonnie Shucha at 9:08 AM | Permalink

I received an email yesterday from Frank Bennet who has been leading the development of a Bluebook citation style for Zotero. Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. Currently, Zotero only offers a beta version of the Bluebook citation style which is pretty limited.

But, Frank tells me that now "Zotero has acquired the basic capabilities needed for legal writing." He adds:

From this point, the project will benefit greatly from the input of actual legal writers. Unfortunately, there are very few lawyers in the Zotero community at present, for the obvious-enough reason that Zotero has until now not been terribly useful for things legal...

I would be looking for people who are comfortable with a few basic technical things (installing Firefox, installing plugins), who are able to invest a small amount of time playing with software with limited and occasionally broken functionality, and who have the patience to report a bit of detail when things do not work correctly-- beta testers for alpha software.

If you're willing to help out, contact Frank Bennett. See also the Zotero-legal Google group - a forum for discussion and a repository of notes and proposals.

Posted by Bonnie Shucha at 9:20 AM | Permalink

A new edition of the Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation was released in May.

Pace Law Library has compiled a list of the changes to the 19th edition and the associated rule numbers. Note that many of the changes deal with electronic sources.

Copies of the new edition are available from Hein for $32.

Source: Pace Law Library

Posted by Bonnie Shucha at 1:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

A new edition of the Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation will be released next month. According to Hein,

the 19th edition retains the same basic approach to legal citation established by its predecessors. The layout has been updated to make information easier to access. Some citation forms have been expanded, elaborated upon, or modified from previous editions to reflect the ever-expanding range of authorities used in legal writing and to respond to suggestions from the legal community.

Copies are available from Hein for $32.

Posted by Bonnie Shucha at 8:24 AM | Permalink