My Favourite Tipples from a US Legal and Business Specialist
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By Candace Cathey

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My Favourite Tipples are shared by Candace Cathey, an experienced information professional and a MLS graduate from the University of North Texas Law Librarianship and Legal Informatics Program. She shares her favourite online resources in areas from crowdsourcing to venture capital and legal developments.

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I'm an information professional experienced in a variety of library settings - legal, academic and public - where I developed skills in research and knowledge sharing, providing efficient customer service and gained supervisor experience. I want to share a list of wikis and search engines that will beneficial to users in the legal, business, and competitive intelligence field.

• Million Short: A search engine that allows a user to remove the 1 million most popular websites from the results list. Depending on your search, you can remove the top 100,000 or 10,000 or 1,000 websites from the drop-down option next to the search box.

• CrunchBase: A crowdsourced database created and founded in 2007 under the TechCrunch brand by Mike Arrington and Keith Teare. The database tracks approximately 650,000 profiles of industry leaders and companies. The wiki is accessible so everyone can edit information. However, all edits must be approved by CrunchBase.

• WhoGotFunded: This tracks venture capital developments, deals and funding events in every industry and region around the world. The website was created by Digimind, a global leader in competitive intelligence solutions in conjunction with Daedalus, a company specialising in semantic analysis.

• Fee Fie Foe Firm: This US legal search engine provides better access to law firms and legal services. It concentrates primarily on law firm websites and content such as firm and practitioner profiles, media releases, client seminars, legal analysis and much more. 

An article in FreePint which I found interesting:

• James Mullan on "The Rise of Mobile Devices for Legal Research". Due to my interest in law libraries, legal research and mobile apps I found this article to be very significant with the changes taking place in law libraries converting from print to electronic.

Mullan looked into drivers behind the growing population utilising mobile technology to access legal information. We keep our mobile devices close to us at all times. We are able to retrieve content for legal research, to carry out note taking, emailing, reading documents, and editing. Instead of being confined to a desktop in the office, we can have a better work-life balance. Court rooms are digitising documents, allowing judges and lawyers to access information through mobile devices.

Vendor services such Westlaw, Lexis, HeinOnline and Fastcase created research apps to supply the mobile solutions market. The use of mobile technology has had a profound impact on the legal industry and mobile services will continue to expand as there will be a greater demand in the future.

FreePint reviews on key legal mobile tools are coming soon.

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