Look up the topics being discussed at conferences to get a feel for what sorts of issues are being talked about by academics, lawyers, judges, and other specialists in your subject.
As institutional scholarly repositories and class web sites proliferate, searching with at least one popular search engine may reveal papers not included elsewhere.
Many databases offer a way to save and automatically re-run searches, informing you of new results.
Use the following to find working papers, preprints, articles accepted for publication, and recently published articles not yet indexed by other sources.