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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute are organizations that provide a wide range of information on automobile safety.

Researching specific civil rights issues? You might want to check out the University of Michigan Law School’s Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse.

Did you notice the new tab on your Google navigation bar for Google “Play?”

Google recently announced a change to how the search engine lists a particular case’s citing references.

The Cyberbullying Research Center is “dedicated to providing up-to-date information about the nature, extent, causes, and consequences of cyberbullying among adolescents.” The website launched in 2005 and contains a variety of information.

Regulations.gov, the central location to access federal agency rulemaking documents and comments, has added a variety of new features.

The Wisconsin Attorney General issued a press release Wednesday regarding their Crime Alert Network.

Need to research an Administrative Code section from a state other than Wisconsin? Do you know which states offer both their Code and Register online?

The FOIA Project is a website that collects documents related to Freedom of Information Act cases filed against government defendants from October 2009 forward.

Bloomberg, a financial news corporation, offers four mobile apps to access their products. The company offers a separate app for Bloomberg, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg TV, and Bloomberg Businessweek.

Earlier this month, Google announced that it is adding an “Elections” section to their News homepage. It is located on the left hand side of the main Google news page and selecting it will narrow your news stories to just those dealing with the election.

The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau just released The Wisconsin Scorecard.

There are a variety of resources available when looking for Presidential documents.

Did you know that UW Milwaukee is home to the American Geographical Society Library? I had the pleasure of hearing one of their librarians speak yesterday. The talk was a fascinating exploration of the library’s physical and online collection of maps, atlases, journals, and photographs.

Did you know that the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction maintains a wonderful resource called the Wisconsin Digital Archives?

Many of us maintain a LinkedIn account for business networking. Some of us utilize this tool to post articles of professional interest; others include speaking engagements or conduct polls on relevant topics.

The Government Printing Office recently announced the release of its first mobile application.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln houses the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The website provides the “text of the celebrated Nebraska edition of the Lewis and Clark journals, edited by Gary E. Moulton.

The Government Printing Office’s Federal Digital System offers free access to various federal publications including the Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register and the Congressional Record.

The law firm of Fullerton & Knowles of Virginia offers a Construction Law Survival Manual on their website.

The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau announced that the 2011-2012 Wisconsin Blue Book is now available. From the book’s introduction:

Bing announced Thursday the addition of detailed airport maps to their Bing Maps service.

Google’s new Flight Search launched last week. The service is designed to help online users locate deals on airfares.

The University of Minnesota maintains a website dedicated to state nursing home regulations. The website serves “as a one-stop location to examine and compare the content of state regulations related to nursing homes.

The Bureau of Land Management’s Federal Land Records site provides “live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than five million Federal land title records issued between 1820 and the present."

Worldometers is an interesting website that provides real time statistics for a variety of topics. Areas addressed include world population, government & economics, society & media, environment, food, water, energy and health.

I noticed that the Frontier Airlines Convention Center in Milwaukee was hosting the IAI Conference.

The New York Law School library offers a very interesting tool called DRAGNET. DRAGNET stands for “Database Resource Access using Google's New Electronic Technologies.”

Bob Ambrogi has an excellent post on his LawSites blog regarding the beta launch of the new U.S. Code platform. He outlines the various new enhancements while comparing it to the current version.

Are you interested in recent or historical union statistics? An excellent source for gathering this type of data is the Union Membership and Coverage Database.