Toward a Cyberlegal Culture Book

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	xi
Chapter 1	Electronic Reference and the Internationalization of Legal Research	1
	Tales of Strategy for Surviving in the Cyberlegal Culture	8
	Define your work "jurisdiction"	8
	Realize that each action incurs a series of reactions	9
	Anticipate "hidden costs" in subscription decisions	10
	Learn from your imitators	10
	Integrate complementary collections	11
	Use teamwork	11
	Better teach than provide	12
	Be aware of security protocols and devices	13
	Try not to assume that one source is better than another	13
	Work on many projects simultaneously	14
	The Legal Information Specialist's Role in Designing the Interfaces of Legal Databases	14
Chapter 2	Legal Research on the Frontier of Innovation	19
	The Online Concept	34
	Online Access Politics	35
	Online Legal Research	36
	Evaluate your resources: what kind of document is needed?	38
	What is the subject area?	42
	Online Sources for Tracing Laws in Different Jurisdictions and Different Subjects	43
	Guides, pathfinders, Internet indexes	43
	Legal portals and vortals	45
	Online encyclopedias	47
	International digests	48
	Yearbooks	49
	News sources	49
	Listservs	50
	Indexes to foreign and international primary and secondary sources	51
	Online legal journals	57
	Dictionaries	59
	Library catalogs	60
	Library consortia	62
	Subject-oriented databases	63
	Foreign Collections and International Implications	63
	Databases and General Search Engines	66
	How old is your document?	67
	Search engines	68
	Search engines for international and foreign law	71
	Search engine logic	74
	Database search engines	74
	Online translation	76
	How to evaluate your search	77
	Search strategies: some practical examples	77
Chapter 3	Guiding Principles on the Evaluation of Legal Databases	87
	Databases	94
	Criteria of Evaluation	96
	Product description and main user identification	97
	Completeness of content	97
	Who is the author/publisher?	99
	Does the database indicate the page of the printed document?	101
	Language	101
	Accuracy	102
	Currency and Timeliness	104
	Coverage	107
	Archiving	108
	Search quality/findability	109
	Workability	110
	Stability/server reliability/malfunctions	112
	Interactivity with the user	113
	Cost: online versus print format	113
	Copyright stipulations	114
	Licensing	117
	Structural considerations/database performance	118
	Conclusion	119
Chapter 4	Teaching versus Reference versus Teaching: Restructuring the Mission of the Law Library	121
	Supporting the School of Law/Legal Institution Instruction	132
	General training	132
	The legal institution's special projects	134
	Specialized training in international and comparative law research	135
	Teaching in the School of Library and Information Science	141
	Teaching Abroad	143
	The basic level	144
	The intermediate level	148
	The advanced level	153
	How to built an electronic law library in a foreign country	157
	Conclusion	160
Appendix	International and Foreign Law Databases	165
	General sources for Public and International Law	166
1.	Treaties	166
2.	Judicial Decisions	170
a.	International Courts and Tribunals	170
b.	National Courts	172
c.	Arbitral tribunals	172
3.	Scholarly Writings	173
	Subject-Oriented Databases (Collections of International and domestic Laws)	175
	Arbitration	175
	Constitutional Law	175
	Copyright	177
	Environmental Law	178
	Treaties	178
	Decisions	180
	Human Rights	180
	Treaties	180
	Decisions	181
	International Organizations	182
	The Council of Europe	182
	European Union	182
	International Labor Organization	184
	North American Free Trade Agreement	185
	Organization of American States	186
	United Nations	187
	World Health Organization	188
	The World Intellectual Property Organization	188
	World Trade Organization	189
	Patents and Trademarks	190
	Transnational Business and International Trade	191
a.	Tax laws: Treaties and country legislation	191
b.	Business laws: Treaties and country legislation	192
	Regions of the World and Individual Jurisdictions	194
1.	Comparative law databases	194
2.	Collections of foreign materials	195
3.	Individual jurisdictions	199
	Argentina	199
	Australia	199
	Austria	201
	Belgium	201
	Canada	201
	China	202
	France	203
	Germany	204
	India	205
	Israel	205
	Italy	206
	The Netherlands	206
	New Zealand	207
	Pacific Basin Jurisdictions	207
	Romania	207
	Russia	208
	South Africa	209
	Switzerland	209
	United Kingdom	210
	United States	210
	Bibliography	213
	Index	223