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May 2009
Does Westlaw provide access to any legal or financial blogs?
Q: I understand Tufts University professor Joel Trachtman has written a lively review of The Law Market, a book by Vanderbilt Law School Associate Dean Erin O'Hara and University of Illinois Law Professor Larry Ribstein. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find it in the All News Plus Wires (ALLNEWSPLUS) or Journals and Law Reviews (JLR) databases. Can I assume it's not on Westlaw?
A: Not necessarily. Try the Blogs on Demand database (BLOGSOD), recently released on Westlaw. BLOGSOD contains the full text and abstracts of a variety of financial, legal, and business blogs, such as The Volokh Conspiracy and felixsalmon.com. As one commentator notes, "[t]hough many investors still rely on the mainstream financial media—and their own advisers—for information and advice, there are plenty of blogs that offer very good analysis and discussions." Karyn McCormack, Financial Blogs: The Best of the Bunch, BUS. WK. ONLINE, Apr. 28, 2008.
You can search BLOGSOD using either the Terms and Connectors or the Natural Language search method. For example, to retrieve blogs that discuss Trachtman's response to Ribstein's latest book, you can type a query such as
ribstein /p "law market" & trachtman
[Note: BLOGSOD is not a Web-trolling service but rather a multibase of more than 100 blogs licensed for this database.]
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