1. Internet research

2. Types of searches  “known item”  topical  exhaustive  current awareness

3. “One quick search” strategy

4. What’s out there?  “raw materials”  not value-added  recent materials  better on human rights, environment, than business-related topics  lots of junk

5. “Cat and Girl” --Dorothy Gambrell

6. 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

7. semi-literal search engines “Speed Bump” –David Coverly

8. 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

9. 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)

10. Research guides  GlobaLex for foreign/international law guides -- http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/index.html http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/index.html  ASIL Electronic Resources Guide for international topics -- http://www.asil.org/erghome.cfm http://www.asil.org/erghome.cfm  LLRX.com for other foreign/international law guides-- http://www.llrx.com/international_law.html http://www.llrx.com/international_law.html

11. Iterative searching  you probably already do this  refine search by adding or discarding terms

12. 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)

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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