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Louis Stanley Jast
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General Reference Resources
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A.M. Best Company (Insurance Companies) (registration required) American Stock Exchange (includes constitution and rules) Better Business Bureau Bloomberg (business news) Company Information Guide (Virtual Chase) (list of useful business web sites) Corporate Information (very basic company information) Florida Company Records globalEdge (Michigan State University - International Business Resources) Hoover's Online (basic company and industry information) NASDAQ (has operational information, manual, companies listed, and more) National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series Abstracts and full-text of the National Bureau of Economic
Research's Working Paper Series available on the web. New York Stock Exchange (includes rules and interpretations Online Annual Reports Price's List of Lists (lists of rankings on different topics) SEC Filings & Forms (Edgar) (text of public company filings) Stock Exchanges Worldwide (links to exchanges from around the globe) Universal Currency Converter (interactive foreign exchange calculator) |
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CFLC Reference Desk (everything from abbreviations to weather reports from the Central Florida
Library Cooperative) Miami-Dade Public Library (gives access to the catalog for the public library; with a Miami-Dade library card, users can also search electronic databases) Refdesk.com (browse or search general reference material from an atomic clock to the Old Farmer's Almanac, also provides a searchable dictionary) Yahoo (as one of the first web search tools, Yahoo has categorized many of the general use material on the web. For true reference material, try the Reference section) |
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American Community Survey (Census Bureau) (age, race, income, and much more) Bureau of Justice Statistics (statistics related to crime, victimization, court system) Bureau of Labor Statistics (information on employment, earnings, inflation, spending, etc.) Court Statistics Project (Nat'l Center for State Courts) (state caseload and other statistics) Economic Research Service (USDA)(farm, commodities and exports on state and county level) Federal Court Statistics (U.S. Courts) (numbers on caseload, filing, judgeships, and other topics) FederalStats (central point for governmental statistics, list by topic or agency) Florida Health Finder (statistics in Researchers section, also has health and facility information) Florida State Court Statistics (trial court statistics) Florida Statistics (U. of Florida) (some general Florida statistics - See instead Florida Statistical Abstract in print) National Center for Education Statistics (education-related numbers) Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics (collation of criminal justice statistics) Statistical Abstract (collation of general statistics, gathered primarily by federal government) Statistical Resources on the Web (Univ.of Michigan) (large list of statistical web sites) STAT-USA (Requires Registration) (business, trade and economic numbers) U.S. Census State & County QuickFacts (state-level, general information) U.S. Census Statistics (population, economic, housing, and much more) |
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ABC News BBC CNN C-SPAN Miami Herald Miami New Times National Weather Service National Public Radio New York Times Wall Street Journal Washington Post Weather Channel Local Radio Stations Locate a Radio Station |
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Famous Trials (detailed information on famous trials, including the
Salem Witchcraft Trials,
the Leopold
& Loeb Trial, the Amistad
Trials and many more) Oyez (access to the full text of major constitutional law decisions, recorded oral arguments of many recent U.S. Supreme Court cases, and more) American Memory (hosted by the Library of Congress, this site includes historical documents, photographs, films, sheet music, oral histories, recorded speeches and more. See also the Florida Memory Project.) Florida Courts (web site for the Florida Court system, which provides information from the Supreme Court (e.g. opinions, court rules, calendars), the District Courts of Appeal and the Circuit Courts.) Department of Homeland Security (information about homeland security and information about the creation of the new department itself. Also see Ready.gov for suggestions on preparing for threats to security.) Regulations.gov (lists federal rules currently open for comment and provides a web-based comment form) Avalon Project (important 18th - 21st century documents) sunEthics (links to Florida, other states, and federal ethics documents) Florida Department of Children & Families (electronic forms and publications as well as information on each program in this department, from adoption to domestic violence) Election Law at Moritz (devoted to election law topics, from voting equipment to campaign finance) Findlaw (state and federal cases and codes, legal news and analysis and more) EUR-Lex (database for European Union legal documents, include decisions, treaties, legislation, the Official Journal, and more) Bar Exam Preparation Guide (lists useful web sites, study guides and articles to help get ready for the bar. It also has previous Florida essay exams, a list of subjects tested on the multistate and Florida bars, and more.) State Court Structure Charts (provides colorful charts outlining the court structure for each state) CARICOM (web site for the Caribbean Community) LLSDC Legislative Source Book (provides information on compiling legislative histories) Florida Family Law Court Forms (self-help site for family law) Florida Constitution (compilation of documents related to the Florida Constitution) UK Statute Law Database (Acts and Statutes from the United Kingdom) GovTrack (users can track current federal legislation) The Robing Room (gives lawyers the opportunity to anonymously rate the judges) |
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Abstract Appeal
(blog on Florida and 11th Circuit legal news) The American Lawyer (articles on lawyers and the legal community) beSpacific (blog on law and technology news) ChessLaw (lists law-related blogs) CNN-Law (current law-related news) C-SPAN (government and political news) How Appealing (blog on federal court happenings) Jurist (legal news and commentary on legal issues by law faculty) Law.com (magazine on law and business of law) LawOffice.com Lawyers Weekly USA McClurg's Legal Humor Headquarters legal news from the lighter side The National Law Journal |
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Directory of Open Access Journals - listing
of law journals that provide open access to their articles. Also provides a list of
journals for other subjects from the main page Hein Online
Hein Online has four major library collections: the Law Journal Library (including older issues
of journals),
the Federal Register Library (1936-1990), the Treaties and Agreements Library, and the U.S. Supreme
Court Library. All of these libraries are image-based and fully-searchable, meaning that
they provide exact page images and enable the researcher to view all pages as they originally appeared.Legal Scholarship Network
Each LSN journal issue contains abstracts of recent working
or accepted papers and comes in the form of indiviudally delivered email
messages. (To sign-up for the e-mail service, click on "Subscribe to
Networks and Journals)Santa Clara Journal of International Law first published in March 2003 as an entirely electronic international law journal. University Law Review Project USC Legal Journals on the Web Legal E-Journals & Periodicals |
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WhoWhere People Finder 411 Switchboard Infospace Map Quest expertpages.com Experts & Consultants (law.com) |
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AcqWeb's
Directory of Publishers and Vendors AALL Amazon Catalogers' Reference Shelf Emerald Library
A library of over 100 journal titles, covering 10 different
subjects. The subjects covered include: Engineering, General Management, Human
Resources, Information Management, Library and Information Services,
Marketing, Operations, Production & Economics, Property, Quality, and
Training & Education. Fulltext Sources Online (FSO)
is a directory of journals and other periodicals detailing where the researcher
can find the fulltext of the journal online. Haworth Press Library Journals Online
The Acquisitions Librarian, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly,
Collection Management, Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery and Information Supply,
Journal of Internet Cataloging, Legal Reference Services Quarterly, Library &
Archival Security, Public Services Quarterly, Technical Services Quarterly, The
Serials LibrarianA Tables of Contents E-mail Alerting Service is available. Go to: http://haworthpress.com/focus/Library. Indexmaster
provides the index and table of contents from recently
published legal treatisesInnovative Law Users Group InterDok - directory of proceedings Legal Publishers' List Library of Congress Miami-Dade County Law Library Access to the library catalog and descriptions of services provided by this library. Miami-Dade Public Library National and Major Libraries of the World (IFLA) OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) PubList Regional Alliance for Preservation SEALL SFALL |
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