Law of the Super SearchersLaw of the Super Searchers:
The Online Secrets of Top Legal Researchers
By T.R. Halvorson
Edited by Reva Basch

Referenced Internet Resources

Webzines

1. Law Library Resource Xchange
www.llrx.com/
 

Legal Research Guidance Sites

2. Best Guide to Canadian Legal Research
www.LegalResearch.org/

3. The Virtual Chase
www.virtualchase.com/
 

Legal Catalogs, Directories, and Search Engines

4. American Law Sources Online (ALSO)
www.lawsource.com/also/

5. CataLaw
www.catalaw.com/

6. FindLaw
www.findlaw.com/

7. Hieros Gamos
www.hg.org

8. Internet Legal Resource Guide
www.ilrg.com/

9. Law Crawler
www.lawcrawler.com/

10. Law Runner
www.lawrunner.com/
 

Federal Government Sites

11. EDGAR Database of Corporate Information
www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm

12. GPO Access
www.access.gpo.gov

13. Internet Grateful Med
igm.nlm.nih.gov/

14. Internet Law Library (U.S. House of Representatives)
law.house.gov/

15. Thomas
thomas.loc.gov

16. U.S. Bureau of Prisons FOIA
www.bop.gov/ogcpg/ogcfoia.html

17. U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division
www.usdoj.gov/civil/civil.html

18. U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Frequently Requested FOIA-Processed Records
www.usdoj.gov/crt/foia/records.htm

19. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
www.epa.gov/
 

State Government Sites

20. Minnesota House of Representatives
www.house.leg.state.mn.us/

21. New Jersey State Legislature
www.njleg.state.nj.us/
 

Academic Sites

22. Big Ear
barratry.law.cornell.edu:5123/notify/buzz.html

23. The Center for Information Law and Policy (Villanova)
www.law.vill.edu/

24. Federal Web Locator
www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Agency/fedwebloc.html

25. InSITE
128.253.118.14:8080/insite/insitetp.html

26. JURIST: The Law Professors’ Network (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
www.jurist.law.pitt.edu/

27. Legal Information Institute (LII; Cornell Law School)
www.law.cornell.edu/

28. Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research
gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex/

29. WashLaw WEB
www.washlaw.edu/

30. World Wide Web Virtual Law Library
www.law.indiana.edu/law/v-lib/lawindex.html
 

American Bar Association

31. ABA Network (American Bar Association)
www.abanet.org/

32. ABA Site-tation
www.abanet.org/LAWLINK/site-tation.html
 

Canadian, Australian, and British Courts and Case Law Sites

33. Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)
www.austlii.edu.au/

34. British Columbia Court of Appeal
www.courts.gov.bc.ca/CA/Ca-main.htm

35. British Columbia Supreme Court
www.courts.gov.bc.ca/SC/Sc-main.htm

36. eCarswell
www.carswell.com/ecarswell/index.html

37. Casebase
www.smithbernal.com/casebase_frame.htm

38. Societe quebecoise d’information juridique (SOQUIJ)
www.soquij.qc.ca/

39. Supreme Court of Canada
www.scc-csc.gc.ca/

40. Supreme Court of Canada opinions
www.droit.umontreal.ca/doc/csc-scc/en/index.html

41. Virtual Canadian Law Library
www.droit.umontreal.ca/doc/biblio/en/index.html
 

Commercial Services

42. Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.
www.bna.com/

43. CDB Infotek
www.cdb.com/public/

44. Congressional Universe
www.cispubs.com/conguniv/welcome.htm

45. CourtLink
www.courtlink.com/

46. CaseStream MarketSpan Online
www.marketspan.com

47. Commerce Clearing House (CCH)
toolkit.cch.com/

48. Dialog
www.dialog.com/

49. Dow Jones Interactive
www.djinteractive.com

50. Dun & Bradstreet
www.dnb.com

Duns Legal Search
www.dnb-dc.com/dnbngovt/legalsearch.html
51. Integrated Health Services, Inc. (IHS)
www.ihs-inc.com

52. Global Access
www.disclosure.com/dga/

53. LEGI-SLATE
www.legislate.com

54. Lexis-Nexis
www.lexis-nexis.com/

55. LOIS
www.pita.com/

56. Martindale-Hubbell
www.martindale.com/

57. PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records)
www.dcd.uscourts.gov/pacer.html

58. QuickLaw
www.qlsys.ca/

59. VersusLaw
www.versuslaw.com/

60. Westlaw
www.westlaw.com/
 

General Catalogs, Directories, Search Engines, and Metasearch Engines

61. AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com/

62. Dogpile
www.dogpile.com/

63. Excite
www.excite.com/

64. HotBot
www.hotbot.com/

65. InfoSeek
www.infoseek.com/

66. Yahoo!
www.yahoo.com/
 

Listservs

67. CALL-L@unb.ca (Canadian Association of Law Libraries / Association canadienne des bibliotheques de droit; discussion list focusing on law librarianship in Canada;
Send the following message to listserv@unb.ca or listserv@listserv.unb.ca or call-l-server@unb.ca:
subscribe CALL-L Your Name
see CALL/ACBD InfoPages at www.callacbd.ca/ or listserv.unb.ca/archives/call-l.html

68. CLRN-L@world.mmltd.com (listserv sponsored by Canadian Legal Research Network for discussion of issues relevant to the legal research undertaking within law firms, corporate legal departments, and independent research units, including the role and practice of research specialists; the relationship between research lawyers and other professionals; the means of evaluating the economic efficiencies of centralized research and retrieval; and the creation and maintenance of legal research databases containing the work product of lawyers.) To subscribe send an email message to: majordomo@world.mmltd.com with the following in the body of the message: subscribe CLRN-L myname@domain (Note: replace the word "myname@domain" with your actual e-mail address.) Commands in the subject line are not processed. (related Web page at http://www.notinprint.com/lrn/index.htm)

69. GOVDOC-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU (A discussion forum about government information and the Federal Depository Library program. Most subscribers are librarians, although many private and public information producers are represented as well.)
Send the following message to LISTSERV@LISTS.PSU.EDU:
SUB GOVDOC-L Yourfirstname Yourlastname
(User Guide at www.staff.uiuc.edu/~raeann/govdoc-l.html)

70. LAW-LIB@vuw.ac.nz (New Zealand-based Law Librarians Group discussion list; includes announcements about meetings, seminars, conferences, discussions about publishers, etc.)
Send the following message to majordomo@vuw.ac.nz:
subscribe law-lib <your email address>
(related page at www.knowledge-basket.co.nz/nzllg/welcome.html)

71. LAWLIBREF-L@lawlib.wuacc.edu (Law Library Reference; questions and issues list for legal reference librarians)
Send the following message to listserv@lawlib.wuacc.edu: subscribe lawlibref-L your firstname lastname (related page at http://lawlibdns.wuacc.edu/archive.html and http://public.1jextra.com/mailinglists/wwwlawlibref-1/index.html) (related page at http://lawlib.wuacc.edu/) (related page at http://www.washlaw.edu/listserv.html)

72. LAWSRC-L@listserv.law.cornell.edu (National daily moderated Internet legal resource list for exchange of information about Internet law resources for teachers, librarians, lawyers; was archived at http://users.aol.com/abiaca/lawsrc.htm; seems to be turning into mostly a legal news distribution list
Send the following message to listserv@listserv.law.cornell.edu:
subscribe lawsrc-L Your full name
(archives at www.rwneill.com/lawsrc.htm and mailmunch.law.cornell.edu/mhonarc/LAWSRC/ and www.legalminds.org/listsaver/lawsrc-l/ and www.reference.com/)

73. LAWTECH@abanet.org (American Bar Association list for discussion of legal-related technology used in law practices and courts, such as software, hardware, use of the Internet, etc.; includes Legal Technology Resource Center (LTRC) announcements)
Send the following message to listserv@abanet.org:
subscribe lawtech Your Name
(related page at http://www.abanet.org/ and archives at mail.abanet.org/discussions/archives/lawtech/)

74. LawTech@complaw.com (Law Office Technology; discussions related to hardware and software; also LawTech-Digest)
Send a message to lawtech-request@complaw.com with the subject: subscribe
(see www.complaw.com/cgi-bin/lwgate/LAWTECH and www.complaw.com/cgi-bin/lwgate/LAWTECH-DIGEST)

75. NET-LAWYERS@peach.ease.lsoft.com (Lawyers and the Internet; moderated list for lawyers, librarians, law professors, paralegals, law students, and others interested in law to discuss issues related to the use of the Internet in the study, practice, development, and marketing of law; includes announcements of and questions on legal resources on the Internet.
Send the following message to listserv@peach.ease.lsoft.com:
subscribe net-lawyers Your Name
(related page at www.net-lawyers.org/; archived at eva.dc.lsoft.com/Archives/net-lawyers.html and ftplaw.wuacc.edu/listproc/net-lawyers/ (old to 12/96) and www.ljextra.com/forumpages/netlawyers.html (or www.ljx.com/mailinglists/netlaw2/) and www.legalminds.org/listsaver/net-lawyers/)
(related page at lawlibdns.wuacc.edu/archive.html)

76. NETTRAIN@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu (Internet/BITNET Network Trainers Discussion List. Note: Not for beginners ; HELP-NET at LISTSERV@TEMPLEVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@VM.TEMPLE.EDU or the Usenet newsgroup, bit.listserv.help-net, is for beginning users of the Internet.
Send the following message to listserv@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu:
subscribe nettrain Your Name
(archives at listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/archives/nettrain.html and gatewayed to the Usenet newsgroup, bit.listserv.nettrain)

77. NETWORK2D-L@austin.onu.edu (American Bar Association list for discussion of issues raised in Network 2d, the quarterly newsletter on using technology in law offices and in the courts; lawyers)
Send the following message to listserv@austin.onu.edu:
subscribe network2d-L Your Name
(include your occupation in the subject line)
(related page at www.abanet.org/)

78. PRIVATELAWLIB-L@lawlib.wuacc.edu (Private Law Libraries list; law firms; American Association of Law Libraries Special Interest Section)
Send the following message to listserv@lawlib.wuacc.edu:
subscribe privatelawlib-L your firstname lastname
(related page at http://lawlibdns.wuacc.edu/archive.html and http://www.aallnet.org/discuss/ - see PLL-SIS list)

79. The TechnoLawyer Listserver (Legal Technology Discussion–for attorneys, paralegals, consultants, software developers, and interested others; ListMaster is Neil J. Squillante at nsquillante@netsquire.com)
Send the following message to commands@technolawyer.com:
subscribe listserver
(or use web-based subscription form at www.technolawyer.com/)

80. WEB4LIB-L@library.berkeley.edu (WebPAC design; Internet, World Wide Web, cataloging, electronic publishing, librarians, computing services; information technology; online public access catalogs (OPACS); web authoring)
Send the following message to listserv@library.berkeley.edu:
subscribe web4lib-l Your Name
(archives at sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive.html)
 

Newspapers and Television

81. Chicago Tribune
www.chicago.tribune.com/

82. CNN
www.cnn.com/

83. The Internet Lawyer
internetlawyer.com/

84. Los Angeles Times
www.latimes.com/HOME/

85. The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/

86. The Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com/
 

Professional Journals

87. EContent(formerly Database)
www.ecmag.net/

88. Law Journal EXTRA
www.ljx.com/contents.html

89. Online
www.onlineinc.com/onlinemag/index.html

90. Searcher
www.infotoday.com/searcher/default.htm
 

Miscellaneous

91. American Law Institute
www.ali.org/

92. Best’s Legal Bookmarks
www.LegalResearch.org/docs/bookmark.html

93. Books and Periodicals Online
(Library Technology Alliances, Nuchine Nobari, ed.)
www.periodicals.net/ or periodicals.net/

94. Fulltext Sources Online
www.infotoday.com/fso/

95. Internet Strategies for the Paralegal in Minnesota: A Paralegal’s Guide to the Information Super-Highway
www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/m212/g-jack/lrweb/lrweb.htm

96. Leigh Webber’s Bookmarks
www.knowhow.com/Research.htm

97. NAREIT Online
www.nareit.com/

98. Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
homer.prod.oclc.org/

99. Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN)
www.rlg.org/rlin.html

100. Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory
http://www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichs/index.html

101. University of Toronto Alphabetical Listing of Electronic Journals
www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/resources/journals.htm

102. Wheeless’ Textbook of Orthopaedics
Wheeless.Belgianorthoweb.be/med.htm
 

Software

103. Alexa
www.alexa.com/

104. PREMISE Research Software
www.westgroup.com/products/software/premise/
 


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The Online Secrets of Top Legal Researchers
By T.R. Halvorson
Edited by Reva Basch

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