Patent Information on the Internet By Charles M. Knuth
Charles Knuth has been the Librarian at Foley & Lardner in Washington, D.C. for thirteen years. Charlie is an active member of the local and national law librarians professional associations, and author of articles on intellectual property in national legal periodicals.
Is an Intranet in Your Future? Part III Defining the Scope and Targeting the Users By Sabrina I. Pacifici (Posted June 24, 1997; Archived July 22, 1997)
Sabrina I. Pacifici has been a legal newsletter editor and publisher for the past decade, as well as a law librarian in Washington, D.C. for 18 years. She is the Editor of Law Library Resource Xchange (LLRX).
Secretaries & Legal Research To Train or Not to Train By Karen Hawkinson (Posted June 24, 1997; Archived July 22, 1997)
A Comparison of SEC Filing Sources By Robert Oaks Latham & Watkins, Washington, D.C.
Robert Oaks is Information Services
Is an Intranet in Your Future? Part II Planning Your Law Firm or Legal Department Intranet By Sabrina I. Pacifici (Posted May 22, 1997; Archived June 24, 1997)
Sabrina I. Pacifici has been a legal newsletter editor and publisher for the past decade, as well as a law librarian in Washington, D.C. for 18 years. She is the Editor of Law Library Resource Xchange (LLRX).
Is an Intranet in Your Future? Part I
by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Sabrina I. Pacifici has been a legal newsletter editor and publisher for the past decade, as well as a law librarian in Washington, D.C. for 18 years. She is the Editor of Law Library Resource Xchange (LLRX).
Search Engines — What’s Your Flavor? By Diana Botluk
Diana Botluk is a reference librarian at the Judge Kathryn J. DuFour Law Library at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and is the author of the 1996 edition of The Legal List: Research on the Internet. She is a regular columnist for the Internet Law Researcher, where she writes about finding information on the world wide web. She also teaches basic, advanced and online legal research at the University of Maryland, and co-chairs the Internet Focus Group for the Law Librarians Society of Washington, D.C.. You can e-mail Diana at [email protected].
(Posted April 21, 1997; Archived May 22, 1997)
H ow are search engines like ice cream? Ice cream can be a rich symphony of rocky road, an elegant simplicity of mint chocolate chip, or the powerful clarity of plain vanilla. Like ice cream, search engines come in a variety of flavors, and what is right for one searcher may be rejected by another. A rocky road search engine might enable sophisticated searching by providing a complex search language slightly beyond the capabilities of the novice researcher. On the other hand, a vanilla search engine might be simple and straightforward, yet not as flexible for the experienced researcher. Research characteristics from six of the most common Internet search engines are compared in the chart below. The chart points out the features common to the search engines, as well as features unique to each. Ultimately, the flavor you choose will depend on your research style. But the best advice is to get to know each search engine’s strengths and weaknesses, and use each to its full advantage.
To download a Word for Windows version of the search engine comparison table, click here. For permission to distribute for educational purposes, please contact Diana Botluk.
“Toto, I Don’t Think We’re in Kansas Anymore…” or Surviving the Insourcing Challenge By Anna Lankford
Return to Library “Do I Have to be a Technical Expert to be a ‘Compleat’ Internet Researcher?”