[LAW-LIB:56011] Re: Lexis v. Westlaw survey results, revised edition

From: Michael Dodson (dodsmichael@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Jul 05 2008 - 19:22:35 PDT

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    For a comparison of LexisNexis v. Westlaw as resources for
    intellectual property research, list members might find this article
    worthwhile:

    Cavicchi, Jon R., "Lexis v. Westlaw for research–better, different, or
    same and the qwerty effect?," 47 IDEA 363-406 (2007).

    Michael Dodson

    On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Paul Lomio <plomio@stanford.edu> wrote:
    > Folks --
    >
    > In case you're interested -- and our blog statistics show over 1,100 visits,
    > so I'm guessing there is interest -- we have posted a revised LexisNexis
    > versus Westlaw survey document.
    >
    > The document has now grown from 94 pages to 176 pages, with the addition of
    > a new appendix.
    >
    > This new appendix, Appendix Q, is a spreadsheet that correlates responses to
    > question one (where folks work) to questions nine, ten and eleven
    > (Lexis/Westlaw preferences, with reasons). The new appendix excludes
    > respondents who only answered question one.
    >
    > If you would like to see the data in Appendix Q in a different format, we've
    > created a Google shared document with all of the responses to questions one,
    > nine, ten and eleven. It's at:
    >
    > http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pRuNG_2euJqB8ZC5bElZMTg&hl=en
    >
    > And the last page of text (before the appendices) now has a new table, on p.
    > 21, better illustrating groups and preferences.
    >
    > It's all noted at http://legalresearchplus.com/ and the revised document
    > itself can be found at:
    >
    > http://www.law.stanford.edu/publications/projects/lrps/pdf/lomiowayne-rp23.pdf
    >
    > -- Paul
    >
    >



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