OLIS is an initiative to design a model online legal information system for indian enviornment. It is designed after need assessment suvey conducted on 397 academic and practicing lawyers in National Capital Region - Delhi. In view of the need assessment survey design of OLIS was started and several collection have been built up.
OLIS contains case laws of Supreme Court, High Courts, Trial courts and Tribunals in India. The coverage of contents are very wide. It has included number of resources such as: case law, central and state acts, Parliamentray bills, rules and regulations, notifications, legal news, trade notices, press release, debates of Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha, video-audio contents, circulars, treaties, commentaries etc.
No open access online legal information system available in India, which could help the legal professionals to perform legal research with variety of features to retrieve the desired results from database. Moreover, the value additions of legal contents are required to suit the information requirements of legal fraternity.
The search forms are designed keeping in mind the problems being faced by them in accessing the legal information. Search mechanism is designed in such a way that users can get the information expeditiouly in single search. OLIS has integrated the web 2.0 tools and number of help features. In order to make it more roubst and systematic feel free to express your views related to the proposed system.