The best search engines for legal research, specific advantages of using Firefox for legal research (add-ons / extensions like Zotero and Jureeka), new research related sites, using social media (twitter, blogs, and delicious) to find information, and services available to alumni and practitioners at William Mitchell’s Warren E. Burger Library.

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21. Zotero plays (especially) well with
with….
• Library Catalogs (and worldcat.org)
• Google Books / Scholar
• ogge
Blogger
• nytimes.com
• USSC decisions on LII
• e-cfr on GPO Access
• JSTOR, HeinOnline, Proquest, and
100s of other databases

22. Westlaw compatibility seems unlikely

23. Zotero s
Zotero’s (minor) problems
problems…
• Lawsuit
• Not optimized for Lexis / Westlaw
• Attachments are local to o e b o se o
ttac e ts a e oca one browser on
one computer
• Bluebook output not quite perfect

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