TRG Screen has released a powerful new enhancement to their Research Monitor product. The new Optimize Insights platform provides visual
analytics for proactive management of digital resources. Law libraries were already reducing their print resources before the 2020 pandemic. The sudden and long term shift to remote work resulted in a dramatic conversion to digital resources. This means that a significant proportion of the resources budget has shifted to digital formats. What’s a law librarians to do? Research Monitor has always offered a significant suite of digital reports for computing utilization ROI. This is often translated as “cost per user” and “cost per session.” The Optimize platform is more flexible and intuitive and offers great “out of the box” graphics.
analytics for proactive management of digital resources. Law libraries were already reducing their print resources before the 2020 pandemic. The sudden and long term shift to remote work resulted in a dramatic conversion to digital resources. This means that a significant proportion of the resources budget has shifted to digital formats. What’s a law librarians to do? Research Monitor has always offered a significant suite of digital reports for computing utilization ROI. This is often translated as “cost per user” and “cost per session.” The Optimize platform is more flexible and intuitive and offers great “out of the box” graphics.Optimize Insights sits at the heart of TRG Screen’s new Optimize platform, which launched in 2020. Resource monitoring platforms are a “must have” for Library Directors and Knowledge Managers responsible for optimizing digital resource budgets. Instead of random
Analyzer. The Analyzer is a research and data visualization tool which delivers key insights on labor arbitrators and labor arbitration awards, trends, and outcomes. The tool is accessible from the Labor Arbitration section on VitalLaw.
Fastcase’s legal news platform. Law Street Media. The deal terms and data will be added to its existing litigation-focused coverage of technology, agriculture, and health law.
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important commercial litigation jurisdictions in the United States.
cases filed after January 1, 2016. Subscribers will have access to over 600,00 full text pleadings and orders which have been downloaded into the module. Coverage includes both class action cases and “pre-RJI cases” (cases that have not yet filed a request for judicial intervention). The analytics data was extracted from both dockets and court filings. New York County Supreme Court data includes civil litigation involving torts, tax and commercial matters. New York is the 10th state court added to the Lex Machina suite of state coverage. Lex Machina will release modules for the other four counties within the boundaries of New York City in the coming months.
annual Dewey B Strategic Hits and Misses Survey. In an attempt to “carry on” as if everything were normal, today I am reporting on the survey results.Thanks to the 87 readers who responded to the survey between January and March 15th. Compared to 2018, 2019 was a fairly slow year for the launch of new products and features. As a result this years survey has fewer questions and fewer categories of new products. But this year the survey covered new analytics tools, analytics documentation, workflow tools, law comparison tools. The survey also asked 
in the legal research arena was challenged on two fronts in the 2010’s. First they were challenged by the emergence of two full service competitors: