SPECIALIZED SEARCH ENGINES – amazon.com/author/quizmaster

TTIP Search Engine A custom search engine focusing on TTIP and law.

Ever wonder what it all means? Look legal terms up in thsi search engine focusing on Law Dictionaries.

Search google scholar HOW TO USE ADVANCED SEARCH OPERATORS TO MAKE YOUR OPEN SOURCE / OPEN ACCESS SEARCH MORE EFECTIVE: A GUIDE TO SEARCH OPERATORS

SEARCH OPERATORS

ANDconjunction (logical and) (must be capitalized)

OR inclusive disjunction (logical or) (must be capitalized) The pipe symbol | also works.

NOT – negation (exclusion) (logical not). The minus symbol – also works to indicate negation.
(searchterm) Order of precedence

~ includes synonyms e.g. “theoretical~” would return unstemmed synonyms.

“” Literal, e.g. “searchterm” would return only the exact word searchterm. Note that literal search is better supported in Yahoo!

. At least once the full stop (dot) was reported as a character wild card but doesn’t seem to function as such.

* WILD CARD(word, not character) – can be used for proximity search e.g. “eric * engle” AND “engle * eric” will return results where eric is within 1 word of Engle — the wild card word is intransitive and may act as a proximity operator with the closer results being returned first (i.e. results within 1 word are returned ahead of results within 10 words)

Stemming (root expansion) unquoted terms are automatically expanded (stemmed) to cover variations. Thus nationalshould also return nationalism. Quoted search terms (literals) are not expanded (stemmed). Thus “national”would not return nationality

Near – sometimes people report “near” as a valid google operator – I have never had luck with it and it is undocumented.

AROUND –
searchterm1 AROUND(number) searchterm2 is an undocumented proximity operator.
example: “defense against the dark arts” AROUND(20) slytherin

ADVANCED SEARCH OPERATORS

Syntax:	Example:
inmeta:author: author search	inmeta:author: “State Department” OR “Department of State”
allintitle: title search	allintitle: “Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership”
site: site search	TTIPsite:http://www.yahoo.com/
filetype:extension doc pdf	TTIP filetype:pdf

HOW TO SEARCH FOR FILES OF A GIVEN TYPE:
Filetype:extension e.g. searchterm filetype:pdf
Filetypes which may be specified include: pdf, ps, wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku, wp, mw, xls, ppt, doc, wks, wps, wdb, wri, rtf, swf, ans, txt. No space may occur between filetype: and the extension! filetype:docworks. Filetype: doc fails.

allintext: searchterm
inurl: searchterm

Supposedly, only 32 words are permitted in your search terms. Stopwords are not counted. Google will only return a maximum of 1000 pages

Operators OR and NOT must be in all caps. AND is implicit and need not be stated but can be explicitly stated if you wish.
Typical wildcard characters in search engines: *, ?, .
Typical expansion characters in search engines: *, !
+ includes any stopword like a, the, an, and so on
Stopwords are common words such as “the” “a” “an” which would normally be excluded. Google had stopwords but may have eliminated them. Stopwords can be forced to be included through quoting as a literal. “Knight’s Gambit to Fool’s Mate” would include “to” in the search.

SITE SPECIFIC SEARCH ENGINES You may prefer the site specific search engine for greater precision however all these sites should be contained in the EU search engine.

EU Law at your fingertips! (very precise searchers go here)

EURLEX (formerly CELEX)

Europa

CURIA

European Court of Human Rights (hudoc)

JURISPEDIA: Wikipedia for law. This can at times be a very good resource. If it has information the information is generally good to very good.

NATIONAL COURTS

Germany
Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) — Entscheidungen

Bundesverfassungsgericht – BVerfG

German Laws in the Internet: Some have English Translations!

Gesetze / Verordnungen

Verwaltungsvorschriften im Internet