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. Data was colected using structured questionniare. The questinnaire had open ended and close ended questions.

In view of the need assessment survey design of OLIS was started and several collection have been built up. The search forms are designed keeping in mind the problem 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. In order to make it more roubst and systematic feel free to express your views related to the proposed system.

No open access online legal information system available in India, which could help the legal professional 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 requirement of legal fraternity.

OLIS contains case laws of Supreme Court , High Courts and Tribunals in India. The coverage of contents are very wide. It has case law, central and state acts, parliamentray bill, rules and regulations, notification, legal news, trade notices, press release, debates of Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha etc.

Number of discussion forums are also buildup for students so that they can access discuss the emerging issues. Besides this, useful websites are also linked for benfits of legal fraternity. In addition, legal community can contribute contents to OLIS. Thefore, a link contribute is given on the home page. Presently, users can contribute articles, forms, speech, audio-video, speech. They can also inform the useful websites using contribute link on the home page. In this regard, copyrights policy are formulated and mentioned on the home page of OLIS.