Romance of Public Domain in Legal Research: An Awareness Study about Free Access to Legal Resources among Users of Select Law Libraries in Delhi

Abstract

The advent of the internet resulted in availability of open access of literary information. Governments and NGOs played a greater role to provide their respective research outcomes through their web portals. The paper analyses awareness using public legal information popularly known as Public Domain Resources by the law library users. A number of international and national initiatives have been performed to support free access to law generated by government and public funded organizations. It is right time to educate legal researchers regarding the use of public domain resources for optimum use of free, fast and easy access of public domain resources