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Wednesday, 18th February 2004

New Sites Track Web Documents in Law and International Relations

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Both entries this week are current awareness and content discovery resources made available (free) by two U.S. law schools. I've asked the people in charge of these sites to provide the overview info. The annotation for the first entry was written by Professor Bernard Hibbits, University of Pittsburgh School of Law. The annotation for the second entry was written by Tom Hillstrom, St. Thomas University School of Law.
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1) News
Primary Documents

Source: University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Paper Chase
On JURIST's Paper Chase, University of Pittsburgh law professor Bernard Hibbitts and his staff of some 30 law students continually track "legal news worth thinking about." From the early hours of the morning to past midnight every weekday they filter thousands of law-related stories on the Internet, using their academic expertise to identify the most important ones (not the most sensational ones!), which they then summarize and enrich in real time with relevant online research materials. This unique current awareness service is completely non-commercial and is provided free by JURIST and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law as a public educational service. It's geared towards general readers as much as towards academics or legal professionals, and should also be of considerable interest to journalists and librarians. Paper Chase even offers RSS-based "newsboxes" of the latest legal headlines that can be carried on other websites by inserting a single string of HTML code.
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2) International Relations
Primary Documents

Source: St. Thomas University School of Law
New, Diplomacy Monitor
More and more nations are launching public diplomacy campaigns on the Internet, posting communiqu�s, transcripts, briefing papers, news releases and other diplomatic documents with the goal of shaping opinion within the global Internet community The St. Thomas University School of Law Diplomacy Monitor monitors the hundreds of government websites feeding this international discourse and synthesizes the documents they publish into a central repository where they can be viewed in a variety of information streams. Official English translations or computerized translations are provided where needed. All content is cached and available for full-text Boolean searching. The monitoring is powered by smart agents or BOTs developed at the law school.

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