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3 Legal Information Alert 1 (1984)

handle is hein.lbr/leinfal0003 and id is 1 raw text is: 91ZLBA What's new in legal publications, databases and research techniques. ALEA Volume 3, Number 1 Three new tax research databases have been recently introduced. The Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) introduced Daily Tax Advance in January 1983. Tax Day by Commerce Clearing House (CCH) has been available since October 1983. Pren- tice-Hall's (P-H) PHINet FedTax will be available in February 1984. The accompanying chart compares the major features of these databases. Tax Day (CCH) Tax Day digests daily current federal tax developments. Current develop- ments are displayed daily by department (ie: IRS, Treasury, Congress, Judiciary, and White House). References to both existing and still to be published para- graph numbers of the Standard Federal Tax Reporter are made. Tax Day can be searched by name, number, date, keyword, and paragraph number. CCH provides a well written 36 page instruction manual for Tax Day. Operat- ing procedures are illustrated through the use of detailed examples. Commonly used procedures are summarized on two handy reference cards. An additional CCH service, State Tax Week, is included with a subscription to Tax Day. State Tax Week monitors weekly state tax developments online for all fI ty states. Tax issues can be sea ed by date, state, or topic. State Tax .eek provides the full text of CCH's State Tax Review. CCH has introduced, in conjunction with Tax Day, two additional services. Tax Demand allows full document re- trieval of items digested in Tax Day. Documents can be requested either via electronic mail on your terminal or by contacting CCH's Washington Service Bureau. The document is delivered by overnight courier. Annual -ibscription fee is $250, plus documen narges de- pending on length and number of docu- ments delivered. PHINet FedTax (P-H) PHINet FedTax is a full text database. Presently, P-H's Federal Taxes 1984 and Weekly Bulletin are available. During the first quarter of 1984, Revenue Rulings, Revenue Procedures, Internal Memoran- dums, and Letter Rulings, from 1977 to present, will be added. Decisions and Memorandums from the Tax Court, and the American Federal Tax Reporter, 2d, from 1974 to present are planned to be available by spring of 1984. Although the timeframe is unspecified, court de- cisions prior to 1974 will eventually be in- cluded. Several searching techniques are available in PHINet. Searching can be limited to document type, paragraph number, keyword(s), code section, and case name. Eight document types are available: Editorial, Internal Revenue Code, Com- mittee Reports, Final Regulations, Pro- posed Regulations, Temporary Regula- tions, Annotations, and Index. Thirteen different search connectors are supported: Search results for identi- cal search words will vary according to the connector used. For example, the query entertainment near deduction will return all documents in which the word entertainment is adjacent to ne word deduction in any sequence. In this example, near is the search connector. The user may scan through a search result utilizing any one of four browse modes. A highlighting feature may be specified to easily locate search words in a retrieved document. As an alternate to online printing, an additional system command entitled Mail is planned. This command re- quests P-H to mail a hardcopy of a re- (continued on page 2) Three New Tax Databases Compared by Caroline Basciani, Tax Librarian, Arthur Anderson & Co. 24 NORTH WABASH *SUITE 939* CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60602*(312) 372-5811 From The Editor This year promises more exciting and challenging developments in legal infor- mation. In order to more accurately re- flect the focus and content of these de- velopments, we have changed our name to the LEGAL INFORMATION ALERT ef- fective with this first issue of Volume 3. In our first two volumes we have en- deavored to bring you the latest reports about electronic and print resources. It has been a good two years and we hope our third year with its new format will continue to make you, our readers, the most well-informed users of legal infor- mation. Some of the developments in the legal information industry we expect to see this year include: increased use of microcomputers, more software pub- lished by or for online services, and more non-print legal publications, such as audio and video cassettes. More legal research guides, too. For just a few ideas on this score, see Nuchine Nobari's re- view of a recent legal research publica- tion in this issue. Micros are taking over the law office. Many law firms across the country are using micros in all areas of the firm, but especially in the library or information center. The most popular model is the IBM PC or XT. These micros are now being used to replace the dumb termi- nals previously used to access Lexis, Westlaw and other database systems and to do some computing. Most fre- (continued on page 3) Contents Three New Tax Databases Compared ........... 1 Database News ................. 3 Index .........................7 New Publications ................ 4 Publishers ........... .......... 7

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