Last week I was bemoaning the fact that secondary sources in legal research are getting short shrift. I suggested that the online services should push the appropriate treatise, ALR, etc. resources to the user based on the user's search terms.
So perhaps it wasn't an original thought. It turns out that Westlaw is doing just that with their new product, ResultsPlus.
I think this is revolutionary. ResultsPlus will get researchers back to the treatises, encyclopedias and practice materials that we know can be extremely useful. The researcher doesn't even have to know they exist.
It's been quite a month. Between Amazon's Search Inside the Book, the announcement that Google will include OCLC Records, and ResultsPlus, it's fair to say that books are coming out of the closet. And none too soon.
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