Enhancements to Congress.gov and Lexis Advance

Last week, two legal resources unveiled new enhancements.  The Library of Congress announced that new features have been added to Congress.gov, including an Advanced Search function, a Browse function, and the Appropriations Table that has previously been available only via THOMAS.  Click here for the announcement from the In Custodia Legis blog from the Law Librarians of Congress. 

For more information about the transition from THOMAS to Congress.gov, see the Prairie Law Blog's Nov. 5, 2013 post on this topic here. 

In its most recent release (last week) Lexis also made several updates to its Lexis Advance platform.  Information from Lexis on the new features and content is available here.  Reviews of the new content and updates have varied.  See here for an post from Robert Ambrogi's LawSites blog on the new content in Practice Advisor, as well as a post here from the RIPS-SIS Law Librarian Blog.

The Law Library staff is available to explain and demonstrate the new features of these databases, as well as other electronic resources.  Please do not hesitate to contact a member of the Law Library staff with questions.