Reference

Reference Database in Legal Information Retrieval

The following is a basic concept of Reference Database in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Reference Database may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Reference databases are Information Retrieval databases that point to (refer to!), but do not include, the full text of the documents that they describe. Documents are represented by surrogates, such as citations, abstracts, excerpts, notes, and pictures.

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• Document
• Information Science
• Research
• Investigation
• Legal Research
• Study