Direct from GPO — On Friday, November 4, 2011, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) draws one step closer to shutting down GPO Access. Once the Friday editions of daily updated content (e.g., Federal Register, Congressional Record) have been uploaded, GPO will cease updating GPO Access in terms of both database content and HTML pages. This will mark the start of the archive only phase of GPO Access and new content will only be loaded to FDsys. During this phase, GPO Access will remain publicly accessible as a reference archive.

 In order to make the switchover from GPO Access to FDsys as seamless as possible for users, GPO is in the process of creating one-to-one redirects from GPO Access content to the FDsys equivalent. This will ensure that bookmarks, Web links, URLs in print publications, and other GPO Access references point to valid Web resources. Once this has been completed, GPO Access will be taken offline. A date has not yet been established for the final shutdown of GPO Access; however, it is slated for fiscal year 2012.

The Civil Department link leads you to information about court rules, civil calendars, court services such as arbitration, settlement conferences and weddings, our State’s civil pattern jury instructions and the Court’s Civil Department Manual.  The latter contains a variety of sample documents including an amended case schedule, order on pretrial conference and a sample trial checklist.

The Criminal Department link leads you to a link to join the Criminal Department’s listserv, links covering the Court’s major criminal calendars, links to community correction services like the Helping Hands and Work Education Release programs,  and links to our State’s criminal pattern jury instructions and Sentencing Guidelines Manual.

Westlaw — our custom subscription includes full-text access to all State appellate-level decisions, cases from all Federal district and circuit courts, all cases from the US Supreme Court, and the legislative and administrative codes from all fifty states.  It also includes full-text access to our State’s legal encyclopedia Washington Practice, broad-based legal encyclopedias such as American Jurisprudence 2d, AmJur Proof of Facts and AmJur Trials, Washington jury verdicts and West’s citator service Keycite.

Lexis — our custom subscription focuses on Washington State and Washington Federal resources including all decisions from our State Courts of Appeal and Supreme Court, cases originating in the Federal district courts in Washington and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the Annotated Revised Code of Washington, and all three of our State’s law school publications, Washington Law Review, Seattle University Law Review, and Gonzaga Law Review.  It also includes access to Lexis’ citator service, Shepards.

Fastcase – the newest addition to our database lineup includes cases and statutes from all 50 states, federal statutes and cases, links to federal and state regulatory materials and specialty databases such as IRS Revenue Rulings,  Board of Immigration Appeals, United States Tax Court and U.S. Court of Federal Claims.  It also includes access to FastCase’s Authority Check system to help you quickly locate additional decisions related to your research.

SupportCalc — our subscription to this specialized software enables you to fill out, save and print child support and support-related documents for Washington State without having to manually calculate rates and figures.

HeinOnline — our subscription to this valuable resource provides access to full-text articles from hundreds of the nation’s leading law reviews and bar journals, the Code of Federal Regulations and United States Code, a variety of Congressional documents including the Congressional Record and the Congressional Record Daily, and legal classics such as Blackstone’s Commentaries.