The international legal research service vLex has partnered with the legal blogging company LexBlog to add more than 400,000 law-related blog posts to its collection of legal-research materials, which currently spans some 100 jurisdictions, including the United States.
As a result of this partnership, legal researchers using vLex will now have direct access to legal news, insights and analysis from the LexBlog network of more than 23,000 individual bloggers writing on more than 1,400 blogs covering virtually every area of law. Estimated to include more than 400,000 blog posts, the collection will continue to grow with new posts added through regular updates.
These LexBlog blogs will become of a new blog category that vLex launched in July, originally with some 300,000 articles provided by the article-distribution service JD Supra.
[Disclosure: I work for LexBlog as publisher and editor-in-chief of LexBlog.com]
When you perform a search, you can narrow results to show matching blog posts.
vLex users will be able to access this blog content in multiple ways:
By choosing the “Browse” function and then selecting blogs. (See the image above.) Users can then view blog posts sorted by most recent, most relevant or most popular, and apply filters to narrow the blog results shown. As part of their customizable news feed, blogs will be available to them as a category of news content, where they will be able to search for blogs and add them to their feeds. In search results, when blogs are relevant to the search query. Blog posts will be included in overall search results, and the user can select the Blogs category in the sidebar to filter search results to show only blog posts. (At this time, the blog category does not appear in the sidebar in all countries where vLex operates, but it is
