Learn the fundamentals of how to begin your tax research and sort through the maze of tax documents and resources. Legal Research on the Internet Many useful tools for legal research are appearing on the Internet and WorldWideWeb and you can take advantage of them in your law job. This can save money compared to Lexis or Westlaw for some primary sources, but more importantly will provide alternative and different sources of information. Finding specific known items on the Web is one thing and being able to search individual files or documents is something else. You can view or retrieve much more material than you can search.
Government information is some of the most useful material on the Web.
If you want searchable primary materials, this is a great place to start. This site provides a variety of ways to search the code, including Boolean search of full text, specific section or citation and Table of Popular Names. Therefore, just like the official printed version, it is only current through 1994. The annotated codes are commercially published and so only available commercially through Lexis and Westlaw. Legislation - Thomas provides searchable versions of the full text of bills, bill summaries and legislative histories and the Congressional Record.