What do you mean? As I understand it, LexisNexis is just a database of legal articles. PubMed is a similar database of medical articles. PM lacks the full text of the articles and even the bibliographies, but it seems to me adequate for this purpose. The difference seems to me to be a matter of culture, of making a point of doing the search. Also, the hierarchical nature of law makes it easy to tell if one opinion trumps another.
Math Reviews is a database of journal articles that includes complete bibliographies for the recent articles. I suppose that must require a deal with the journals, but I wonder why PubMed didn’t make the same deal? Google Scholar is an automatically generated citation database.
What do you mean? As I understand it, LexisNexis is just a database of legal articles. PubMed is a similar database of medical articles. PM lacks the full text of the articles and even the bibliographies, but it seems to me adequate for this purpose. The difference seems to me to be a matter of culture, of making a point of doing the search. Also, the hierarchical nature of law makes it easy to tell if one opinion trumps another.
Math Reviews is a database of journal articles that includes complete bibliographies for the recent articles. I suppose that must require a deal with the journals, but I wonder why PubMed didn’t make the same deal? Google Scholar is an automatically generated citation database.