This study aims to be a vital source for any legal researcher, student or practitioner along with librarians in the present digital age and ascertains a tabular comparison of connectors/symbols/ operators used in prominent electronic databases which are worthwhile.
Authors
Ritu Nagpal, Global library, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India.
N. Radhakrishnan, Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu.
Summary
In the present state of fear and anxiety due to this pandemic outbreak, the life of humans has an abnormal impactof it. The whole world is facing this crisis where in the libraries belonging to the service community are continuously offering resources, working on additional opportunities and advancing towards collaborative information dissemination‘virtually’. Embracing this digital world, the libraries have become the hope from hardships for everyone.
This study aims to be a vital source for any legal researcher, student or practitioner along with librarians in the present digital age and ascertains a tabular comparison of connectors/symbols/ operators used in prominent electronic databases which are worthwhile. The present study focuses on the introduction to legal research, its purposes need and importance.
This research paper is intended to support in Legal Research as a proper research strategy which plays an important factor in legal research. There is a detailed discussion of the historical development of different electronic databases as well.
This guide will prove to a quick reference and will bring out a clarity to refine the search strings used during the exploration through the prominent Legal databases i.e. Lexis Advance, Westlaw, HeinOnline, Manupatra and SCC Online. As these databases are huge set of knowledge and resource, to assimilate and reach to the scrutinized outcome during the legal research the comparison of connectors, symbols and operators given in the study will be extensively useful by the researchers to get the desired outcome all through the search attempts.
Published in: Library Philosophy and Practice
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