Several legal publishers have produced apps for iPhones but I haven't seen a full - on legal information app yet (and by this I mean
secondary legal material in the form of an app).
Developing and publishing authoritative
secondary legal material can be very costly.
At this point in its development, Andreozzi believes, Bloomberg Law compares unfavorably to Westlaw and LexisNexis only in one respect: its lesser collection of
secondary legal materials such as treatises and practice guides.
I believe the most logical place to start is for publishers to develop output styles for their electronic services that are compatible with the software, as a citation style file that will handle the majority of Canadian primary and
secondary legal materials can be created, and this would only require manual editing of those materials that fall outside the style.
Yesterday, Hein and Fastcase announced a publishing partnership through which the companies will share primary and
secondary legal materials.
From Lo - Fi Librarian, and apropos of the discussion about the future of CLB, QL, etc., a note that BAILII has started a collection of
secondary legal materials.
In my experience and to the extent of my capabilities with them, Zotero and RefWorks work as well as can be expected for
secondary legal materials — and only for secondary materials.
Even as any number of other legal research platforms have come along, what has continued to distinguish the big two are their libraries of
secondary legal materials.
In those situations, you may want to review
some secondary legal materials.
And while the platform had come far closer to matching the breadth of resources available on Westlaw and LexisNexis, it still lagged behind in its collection of
secondary legal materials such as treatises and practice guides, as its chairman, Lou Andreozzi acknowledged in an interview with me at the time.
SierraLII provides free, unrestricted access to the primary and
secondary legal materials of Sierra Leone.
Worth reading: I've been reporting here on efforts by Fastcase to expand its library of
secondary legal materials.
Primary and
secondary legal materials.
Selected primary and
secondary legal materials.
In order to provide this service, PacLII has built a collection of primary and
secondary legal materials (including cases, legislation, treaties, journal articles and law reform documents) by agreements with the various sources of the documents and rights - holders in the documents, and by other means such as scanning documents where documents are out of copyright or with the permission of copyright holders.
Not exact matches
Even so, Andreozzi asserts that such
secondary materials account for no more than 10 percent of all
legal research.
From a law publisher's point of view, I might have a concern about the potential absence of the certainty and profitability of
legal change, which are guaranteed with a reliance upon cases, legislation and other primary and
secondary source
material.
What they have that others do not are significant databases of
secondary legal - research
materials such as treatises, specialized
legal - research
materials in particular areas of concentration, and ever - growing collections of public - records data, court and deposition transcripts, docket information, and all sorts of other information that remains largely unavailable or inaccessible elsewhere online.
In one of our later advanced
legal research and writing class of the term, we turned our attention from traditional primary and
secondary material to alternative or less - expected
legal research resources.
This mix of primary (both regulatory and judicial) and
secondary (both CLE and commentary)
materials is a perfect illustration of what John Palfrey, director of the Harvard law Library, in his recent article «Cornerstones of Law Libraries for an Era of Digital - Plus», 102 Law Libr J 171 (2010), describes as the new «
legal information ecosystem».
Secondary Sources on Westlaw combines expert authors and an unmatched collection of leading and premier analytical
materials with a deep tradition of excellence in
legal publishing.
Not only will it enhance Bloomberg Law's visibility and authenticity as a
legal research provider, but it could also help it gain access to authors and content it needs to help fill out its libraries of
secondary materials.
What gets me is that we have to pay to read primary
legal materials, which as public record, we own, AND, we have to pay them to read their precious
secondary materials that are necessary for us to understand what the primary
materials mean.
Today everybody (or a very large majority of users) do their
legal research with digital tools; the exception being the consultation of treatise and
secondary material not available online.
West and Lexis (and BNA and CCH, etc) bring much, much more than fancy and clean databases of primary
legal materials: the real value is the
secondary material that helps research understand all the vastness and obtuseness that the primary
materials offer the unwary.
A number of issues are not addressed in the current content, such as the relative merits of paper and electronic sources, the distinction between primary and
secondary materials, the related issue of the connections between
legal processes and
legal documents, and generally the fact that there are different types of
legal information available.
Total Client - Service → gives references to other
secondary materials such as
legal encyclopedias and law review articles.
The APA Publication Manual, 6th edition states» References to
legal materials... which include court decisions, statutes, other legislative
materials, and various
secondary sources, are more useful to the reader if they provide the information in the conventional format of
legal citations.»
Occupying a three - story building on the north side of the campus, the Library houses an extensive collection of
legal materials including federal and state statutes, case reporters, and digests, monographs, treatises,
secondary resources,
legal periodicals, and newspapers, with a focus on Florida - specific
legal resources.
Extensive
secondary materials including law journals, books and magazines and
legal forms ready to use.
Legal publishers have digitized and made available online many Canadian primary legal resources such as case law and legislation (although there are still pockets of information that aren't available online) although the secondary materials lag be
Legal publishers have digitized and made available online many Canadian primary
legal resources such as case law and legislation (although there are still pockets of information that aren't available online) although the secondary materials lag be
legal resources such as case law and legislation (although there are still pockets of information that aren't available online) although the
secondary materials lag behind.
Most of the digitization initiatives described by Lyonette in her article have been organized and are being funded by academic, research or national libraries, so it's perhaps not surprising that the emphasis has been on digitizing «books»; consequently, if any inherently
legal materials are included in the collections, it's by chance, and they are
secondary sources, not primary sources of law.
all of Canada's
legal print heritage, including
secondary materials.
To that end, a bibliography of
secondary materials from all
legal publishers is included with each Title to facilitate further research.
The Hein collection will include more than 1,800 law reviews back to their first volumes, and represents the first
secondary material to be integrated into the Fastcase
legal research service.