SECONDARY MATERIALS

I. LEXIS

A. Standard Search Strategies

• Source Directory - Secondary Legal

News

Secondary Legal: Annotations and Indexes

Secondary Legal: Area of Law Treatises

People, Business & Asset Locators

Reference: Biographies

Reference:General

Reference:Law

• search Source Directory - for availability and coverage

• i - to determine what source contains

• segments

B. Relevant Sources

Restatements of the Law - Secondary Legal: Individual Restatements of Law

Law Reviews, Combined - Secondary Legal

Legal Resources Index - Secondary Legal/Annotations & Indexes

News Group File, Most Recent Two Years - News

Martindale Hubbell - Secondary Legal : Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory Listings : United States Listings

Martindale Hubbell by state - Secondary Legal : Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory Listings : United States Listings

American Bar Association Materials - Secondary Legal : American Bar Association (ABA) Materials

World Almanac and Book of Facts - Reference : General

U.S. Budget - Reference : General

C. Sample Searches (used in class)

search Source Directory - collier and bankruptcy

Law Reviews- welfare /s eligib!

title (welfare and eligib!)

title(welfare) and eligib!

Legal Resources Index - welfare and eligib!

Martindale Hubbell - looking for Kenneth Starr

II. WESTLAW

A. Standard Search Strategies

• Database Directory - Law Reviews, Legal Texts and Periodicals

- Law Reviews, Legal Texts and Periodicals : Texts & Treatises in TEXTS

- Law Reviews, Legal Texts and Periodicals :

Periodical Indexes

- Law Reviews, Legal Texts and Periodicals :

- Law Reviews, Legal Texts and Periodicals : Practice Guides and CLE Materials

Newspapers, Magazines and News Services

Directories and Reference Materials :

Directories and Reference Materials : Periodical Indexes

Directories and Reference Materials : Social Sciences & Humanities

Directories and Reference Materials : General Reference

• search IDEN database - for availability and coverage

• scope or i - to determine what database/file contains

• fields

B. Relevant Databases

di - Blacks Dictionary

tp-all - texts and periodicals, combined

ambar-tp- American Bar Association texts and periodicals

texts - texts and treatises

rest - Restatements of the Law (specific Restatements, e.g. rest-prop- Restatement of Property)

jlr - journal articles

lri - Legal Resources Index

ilp - Wilson's Index to Legal Periodicals

dao - Dissertations Abstracts Online

socscisrch - Social Sciences Citation Index

econlit - Economic Literature Index

wsj - Wall Street Journal

afj - Almanac of the Federal Judiciary

wld - West Legal Directory

C. Sample Searches (used in class)

iden - "americans with disabilities act"

dao - ti("law firm")

socscisrch - au("amar a!")

cr("amar a!")