SECONDARY SOURCES

I. Standard Search Strategies

A. Westlaw

• look through directory - Law Reviews . . . , Practice Guides . . ., Legal News . . .
• search IDEN database - for availability and coverage
• scope - to determine what database/file contains
• fields

B. Lexis

• More Sources - Secondary Legal, People, Business & Asset Locators
• search GUIDE:GUIDE - for availability and coverage
• .gu - to determine what database/file contains
• segments

II. Relevant Libraries;Files and Databases

A. Westlaw

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

bus-arts - Business A.R.T.S.

wsj - Wall Street Journal

afj - Almanac of the Federal Judiciary

B. Lexis

Libraries;Files

2ndary;restat - Restatements of the Law (specific restatements, e.g. tort2 - Restatement of Torts, 2d)

lawrev;allrev - law reviews

lawrev;lglind - Legal Resources Index

news;curnws - current (last two years) newspapers

news;nyt - New York Times

marhub;alldir - Martindale Hubbell

marhub;ctdir - Martindale Hubbell - Connecticut attorneys

aba;allaba - American Bar Association journals

III. Sample Searches

A. Westlaw

rest-prop - ti("res ipsa loq!")

ilp - eligib! and welfare

sh 83 Colum. L. Rev. 1615

dao - ti("law firm")

socscisrch - au("gingrich, n!")

cr("gingrich, n!")

wsj - china /p "campaign finance"

iden - "new haven register"

B. Lexis

2ndary;tort2 - res ipsa loq!

lawrev;allrev - welfare /s eligib!

title(welfare) and eligib!

lawrev;lglind - title(welfare) and eligib!

sh 83 Colum. L. Rev. 1615

news;curnws - china /p campaign finance

marhub;alldir - looking for Kenneth Starr

guide;guide - new haven register