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.

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.

This article by Thomas Shaw discusses the key findings of an MSc dissertation which examined legal information professionals' perceptions of what facilitates, and what impedes, the use of free and paid-for legal information resources. It also compares and contrasts the views of information professionals working in academia with those working in law firms. It is situated in the context of significant criticism of commercial legal publishing and the existence of many resources providing free legal information.