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Internet research
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Types of searches
“known item” topical exhaustive current awareness
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“One quick search” strategy
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What’s out there?
“raw materials” not value-added recent materials better on human rights,
environment, than business-related topics
lots of junk
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“Cat and Girl” --Dorothy Gambrell
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Search engines (SEs)
index the web, create their own database
scan their database when you search
return results by relevance cover different sets of webpages work literally
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semi-literal search engines“Speed Bump” –David Coverly
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Implications of how SEs work
SEs can’t reach all data on the web –”invisible web” (e.g., LexisOne requires password; library catalogs require a search)
Use more than one SE when can’t find something, or when you need to be exhaustive
New stuff can be hard to find
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Alternatives to search engines
Go where the news is (e.g., UN News Service, EU Press Room, government agencies)
Go where the databases are (library catalogs, cases, statutes)
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Research guides
GlobaLex for foreign/international law guides -- http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/index.html
ASIL Electronic Resources Guide for international topics -- http://www.asil.org/erghome.cfm
LLRX.com for other foreign/international law guides-- http://www.llrx.com/international_law.html
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Iterative searching
you probably already do this refine search by adding or
discarding terms
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Specific info on how Google works
designed to give good answers to short search strings
Less can be more; always fear unreliable info from your source
Google suggests alternative spellings, not good on some
Don’t ask questions; do ask “answers” Don’t specify type of document (e.g.,
report, discussion, paper)
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Advanced searching
restrict your search to a site; e.g., site:www.worldcourts.com
search for synonyms; e.g., Rwanda tribunal OR ictr
eliminate terms; e.g., trafficking –drug –narcotics
restrict your search for a document title: e.g., allintitle:resolution 1441
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Foreign language
British spellings (e.g., labour) Google is inconsistent in treatment
of letters with diacritical marks as different from letters without those marks --try both for completeness
Be flexible; try alternate spellings
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Google Book Search & Google Scholar
Google Scholar -- searches full-text of scholarly journals
Google Book Search –searches full-text of books
access to complete text varies sometimes better than library
catalogs or journal indexes
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