Public Information Online (PIO) is an online service from Dandy Booksellers Ltd offering a wide range of official documents going back, in many cases, more than a century. PIO is safeguarding the accessibility to historic government decisions which have changed the face of our constitution. Here Donna Ravenhill, Managing Director of Dandy Booksellers, takes LIM through the origins and history of PIO, explains how you can make the most of its facilities, and outlines its plans for the future.

TRG Screen's Global Director of Marketing Roel Mels talks LIM through ResearchMonitor, a tool that allows legal information professionals and lawyers to keep track of and manage their subscriptions.

The LexisLibrary and LexisPSL legal content platforms are well known to legal information professionals and lawyers in the UK. The release of the Lexis+ UK service seamlessly brings together these resources on one platform for the first time, allowing the researcher to search and retrieve relevant and connected content through one search interface. David Algie, the Lexis+ Product Marketing Manager at LexisNexis, talks LIM readers through this innovative and ‘feature rich’ new product.

Financing work is an important source of revenue for many law firms, so it's no surprise that the finance practice group is often one of the largest in a City firm. But what is finance and what do finance lawyers do? Ian Hunter, Content & Research Manager (EMEA) at Shearman & Sterling (London) LLP, gives LIM the benefit of his wide experience in the sector.

In this article John Franssen, Head of Research at Travers Smith LLP, gives an overview of what private equity is (including a brief glossary of some key terms), how private equity invests, the type of work lawyers in private practice are involved in and some of the key resources that they need and that are available. This article will also highlight the growing importance of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and sustainability investment for private equity managers.

This report, compiled by Gerry Power, describes the process of updating the records of the FLAG (Foreign Law Guide) database. His article outlines the aims, method and the findings of the 2013 update.

This report by Peter Clinch describes the procedures followed and the results obtained through updating the FLAG (Foreign Law Guide) database1, which took place during the Spring and Autumn 2010.

A vendor launches what they promise to be a fantastic new product which you can not do without so you set up a trial. At the end of the trial you have lots of well-balanced feedback from across your organisation that you can use to determine whether or not to take the product and which also gives you some points for negotiation. Well, that is the theory anyway! In this article Chrissy Street aims to give some guidance about how to get closer to this in practice.

Developing legal research skills is something that takes time and practice and can be enhanced with proper training. Marcie M. Baranich explores the various resources that HeinOnline offers to help law librarians and legal researchers develop their research skills in HeinOnline, from training guides and video tutorials to live webinars and support, together with the platforms and social media applications used to disseminate training resources, including the Wiki, Blog, YouTube channel, Facebook page, and Twitter feed.

Hester Swift, Foreign and International Law Librarian, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, and Peter Clinch, Senior Subject Librarian for Law, Cardiff University delivered this paper at the recent BIALL Annual Conference.