Secondary Sources Traditional Secondary Sources

Encyclopedias Periodical Articles

Law Reviews Bar Journals / Legal Newspapers

Treatises ALR Restatements Loose-leaf Services Practitioner Aids (CLEs/Form Books)

Hein Online

Secondary Sources Online Legal Portals General Portals Invisible Web General Search Engines and Directories Low-Cost Options

Legal Portals Often began as search engines Or as Yahoo-style menu systems Originally sponsored by non-profit or

academia Some morphed into commercial or

hybrid enterprises

Legal Portals: Commercial Findlaw.com

Includes LawCrawler, Google-Based search engine

LexisOne.Com ALSO: Lawsource.com Internet Legal Resource Guide

http://www.ilrg.com

LawGuru (http://lawguru.com) LawyerExpress.com

http://lawyerexpress.com

Findlaw Granddaddy of Legal Portals Owned by West since 2001 Supreme Court since 1893- Multi-Circuit Searching at Federal Level 30+ Law Reviews Largest online attorney directory Hybrid – Some commercial content

Customized Channels

Portals: Law Schools Cornell (Legal Information Institute)

(http://www.law.cornell.edu/) Indiana (Virtual Law Library)

(http://www.law.indiana.edu/v-lib/index.html)

Texas (http://www.law.utexas.edu/research/)

Legal Portals: Academic Washlaw Web

http://www.washlaw.edu Jurist (University of Pittsburgh)

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/ Primarily Secondary Sources Numerous Blogs

Portals of Distinction: Other Organizations

Hieros Gamos http://www.hg.org

Law Firms Virtual Chase

http://www.virtualchase.com LLRX

http://llrx.com

HierosGamos

Legal Portals: Government FirstGov

http://firstgov.gov GPO Access

http://www.gpoaccess.gov Thomas (Library of Congress)

http://thomas.loc.gov House of Representatives

Office of Law Revision Council http://uscode.house.gov

Search Engines and Directories Google.com (http://google.com)

Indexes links as well as full-text Google Directory part of Open Directory

Project “Monetizing”

Yahoo.com (In Transition)

Google.com

Search Engines and Directories AlltheWeb (http://alltheweb.com) Hotbot.com (http://www.hotbot.com)

Highly precise searching possible Useful Advanced Search mode

LawCrawler (Findlaw/Google) About.com (Directory only)

AlltheWeb.com

Search Engines and Directories Infomine

http://infomine.ucr.edu/ Internet Public Library

http://www.ipl.org Resource Discovery Network

http://rdn.ac.uk/ British

Forms FindForms.com HieroGamos Forms

http://hg.org/forms.html

Forms – FindForms.com

Hieros Gamos Legal Forms

Legal News Sites Newspapers Online

New York Times (http://nytimes.com) Washington Post (http://washingtonpost.com) Wall Street Journal (

http://interactive.wsj.com/ushome.html) Law.com About.com: Current Events/Law

http://law.about.com

Non-HTML data Streaming Media Audio/Video/Images Adobe PDF Real-Time Information Database Retrievals

Dynamically created HTML files Flash/Shockwave Compressed Files Executables

Finding Non-HTML File Formats Google & AlltheWeb: use the filetype

operator in Advanced Search filetype:pdf, ppt filetype:doc

Use specialized engines Research Index

Invisible (Deep) Web Consists of Databases in non-HTML, non-

static format Accessible from specific HTML pages Not indexed by Google or other major search

engines 2 to 20 times larger than the visible Web Higher Quality Information Variety of Data formats and search

mechanisms

Invisible Web Portals Intelliseek

http://www.invisibleweb.com Invisible-web.net Librarians Index to the Internet

http://www.lii.org CompletePlanet

http://www.completeplanet.com/

Invisible Web Portals Gary Price's Direct Search

http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm The Big Hub

http://www.thebighub.com/ Turbo 10

http://turbo10.com/ PDF documents

http://searchpdf.adobe.com

Low-Cost Alternatives Versus Law Loislaw.com Law.com

Practice-area specific Some free news articles

Practice Centers

Conclusions Know your Sources Use Multiple Sources Know your Scope Inexpensive is generally better than

free Keep an eye on the market