Legal Apps - Part 6, Productivity

App	Description
	The Evernote app saves, shares, and organize files and record voice notes. Available for free at iTunes and Google Play.
	Dragon Dictation is a voice recognition app that allows you to speak and instantly see your text or email messages. Available for free at iTunes.
	The Dropbox app automatically saves photos, videos, and documents. Available for free at iTunes, Google Play, Blackberry and Kindle.
	The Docs To Go app allows users to view, edit, and create documents. Available for $9.99 at iTunes and free for Docs to Go 3.0 at Google Play (additional purchase included).
	The GoDocs app allows users to view documents, edit documents online, and manage multiple accounts. Available for $4.99 at iTunes .
	The Adobe Reader app allows users to view PDF files, fill out forms, and print files. Available for free at iTunes and Google Play.

Copyright for Librarians - the essential handbook

If you are interested in a free book about copyright, the EIFL has issued one in PDF format at no cost. The download link is: http://www.eifl.net/system/files/201301/cfl_book_download.pdf

The announcement is below.

"Copyright for Librarians" (CFL) is an online open curriculum on copyright law that was developed jointly with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Re-designed as a brand new textbook, "Copyright for Librarians: the essential handbook" can be used as a stand-alone resource or as a companion to the online version which contains additional links and references for students who wish to pursue any topic in greater depth.

Delve into copyright theory, understand the public domain or explore enforcement. With a new index and a handy Glossary, the Handbook is concise reading for librarians who want to hone their skills in 2013, and for anyone learning about or teaching copyright law in the information field.”

Documents To Go

Android app, Documents to Go is available through Amazon.com. You can view, edit, create and download files from Word, Excel, and Power Point documents. You can perform the same features except creating files from Google Docs. Additionally, you can view PDF files and is in sync with your desktop using the devices USB cable.

The National Academies Press Makes All PDF Books Free to Download

Below is an abbreviation of the full press release that can be found at this link:
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=06022011

"As of today all PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press will be downloadable to anyone free of charge. This includes a current catalog of more than 4,000 books plus future reports produced by the Press. The mission of the National Academies Press (NAP) -- publisher for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council -- is to disseminate the institutions' content as widely as possible while maintaining financial sustainability. To that end, NAP began offering free content online in 1994. Before today’s announcement, all PDFs were free to download in developing countries, and 65 percent of them were available for free to any user."

"Based on the performance of NAP’s current free PDFs, projections suggest that this change will enhance dissemination of PDF reports from about 700,000 downloads per year to more than 3 million by 2013."

"Printed books will continue to be available for purchase through the NAP website and traditional channels. The free PDFs are available exclusively from the NAP’s website, http://www.nap.edu/, and remain subject to copyright laws. PDF versions exist for the vast majority of NAP books. Exceptions include some books that were published before the advent of PDFs; books from the Joseph Henry Press imprint; and in cases where contractually prohibited, such as reference books in the Nutrient Requirements of Domestic Animals series."

EDOCFIND.COM

Website to Locate Papers and Presentations

PDFs/presentations/spreadsheets/e-books on a variety of topics
http://www.edocfind.com/

I performed a search on National Building Codes for India. Results: http://www.edocfind.com/en/ebook/national%20building%20code%20INDIA-1.html

You can search by topic, format, and language. You can see recent searches and most downloaded documents. There are no publisher or dates on the search results view, but can see the website information. You will need to open up the documents to find the publisher and the date.

No charge to use the website.

Manual of Patent Examining Procedure

Did you know that all editions of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure is now available on the USPTO web site?

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/old/index.htm
PDF Copies of MPEP Editions and Revisions 1948 - 2006

A useful free PDF document maker

You don't have to have a Google account in order to access the free PDF document maker. I added the pdf24.org link to my iGoogle page, in order to save time.

If I didn't want this on my iGoogle page, http://www.google.com/ig,
I could simply go to http://www.pdf24.org/

This converter is easy to use. There are 2 steps: Browse a document from the web and set an email address to send it to. You can also download this tool to your computer.

Please note that it only creates; it does not edit.