On 20 October LexisNexis UK sold a portfolio of approximately 600 titles to Tottel Publishing, a company set up by Jim Smith, a former UK publishing director of LexisNexis Butterworths. The sale includes bound books and some 70 looseleaf works, journals and newsletters, as well as the entire Irish list and many of the titles published by LexisNexis UK in Scotland. LexisNexis say they “remain fully committed to legal and tax publishing, in hardcopy and online formats. Our strength as a publisher is derived from our long association with the UK’s best-known and respected titles, and we remain closely associated with them, and indeed we will maintain our position as the UK’s leading legal and tax publisher.”
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BIALL has set up a Legal Online Resource Database – a register of all the online services provided by the mainstream commercial publishers. You can view the register by selecting title, host, subject, material type, or jurisdiction, or view a listing of what’s new. Records give a brief summary of coverage and link through to the home page of the host.
Ever thought “Google is great, but why can’t I search my computer the same way?” Well now you can do just that. The new Google Desktop Search launched in beta 14 October. It seamlessly blends into Google itself. Download the tool and you’ll see a new Desktop search button on the Google home page. Google will then index documents on your computer while it is idle. Selecting the Desktop button for a search brings back hits – almost instantly – from your own computer. Google Desktop Search indexes the full text of emails in Outlook or Outlook Express, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, AOL Instant Messenger chats, cahed IE web pages, any HTML file saved to your computer and plain text files. Wow!
