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Legal periodicals are an important secondary source of legal information.
They are valuable in researching scholarly aspects of the law, recent
developments in the law, and current legal trends.
Access to the legal periodical literature is available via print indexes
located in the reference alcove, LegalTrac, and on both LEXIS and WESTLAW
(please note that Lexis and Westlaw access is restricted to law school faculty
and students per agreement with these services).
This guide will outline the major legal periodical indexes available and
will provide information on the available formats (i.e. print, online) for
each index. In addition, it will present details on particular advantages
and/or features of each index and format.
Periodical locations can be found using either the online catalog or the
journal list, copies of which are located on the table just outside the
reference alcove and at the circulation desk. Please consult a member of the
library staff if you have difficulty locating a particular periodical. Also,
please note that the most recent issues of periodicals are kept on open reserve.
Index to Legal Periodicals. 1908 -
Reference Alcove - Index Table
Index to Legal Periodicals (ILP) is a monthly paper index produced by the
H.W. Wilson Company. It covers 460+ English language legal periodicals and books
published in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
A few yearbooks, annual reviews, and reports of annual institutes are included;
however, it is still primarily a periodical index. The monthly paper issues are
cumulated annually into a bound volume. ILP may be searched using the combined
subject/author index. It also contains tables that can be used to locate articles
dealing with a specific case or statute and a book review index.
Current Law Index. 1980 -
Reference Alcove - Index Table
Current Law Index (CLI) is a paper index of legal journals that is
produced by Information Access Company (IAC). It is issued twelve times a year,
with quarterly and annual cumulations. Coverage includes 875+ English language
journals from the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand.
Titles covered include academic reviews, bar association journals, specialty journals,
and selected journals treating allied disciplines such as criminology and accounting.
CLI can be accessed by subject, author or title. In addition, it contains tables of
cases and statutes cited in articles. CLI lacks the historical coverage of ILP,
however, it covers a wider range of publications and newspapers than ILP. Also,
it is useful to note that CLI uses the Library of Congress subject headings to
index articles; these are much more specific than the index terms used by ILP.
CLI is available online under the name Legal Resource Index on both Lexis
(LAWREV library, LRI file) and Westlaw (LRI database). These online versions
are searchable using either boolean operators or natural language queries.
These search capabilities are especially useful if one is trying to locate
articles that mention a specific term or name that might not be indexed in
the print version. Also, the online Legal Resource Index allows for the
combination of terms or concepts using the boolean AND operator. This
capability is not possible in the print index. Coverage for the print and
online versions is the same, even though the names are different.
IAC also produces the online legal periodical index LegalTrac,
which is available from the law library webpage. LegalTrac takes the CLI database
and adds coverage of additional publications. LegalTrac indexes approximately
900 legal publications. Also, it includes law-related articles from more than 1,000
additional business and general interest periodicals, as well as major legal
publications from other English-speaking countries. LegalTrac provides easy
subject or keyword searching, as well as more advanced boolean "power searching"
for experienced users. As a web based service, LegalTrac is continuously updated.
Current Index to Legal Periodicals. 1977-
Reference Alcove - Index Table
Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) is a weekly print service from the
University of Washington Law School that indexes the contents of 175 major law
reviews, including articles, comments, and case notes. Each week it indexes
law reviews received the previous week. This service helps to fill the time
lag in between receipt of ILP, CLI, and LegalTrac supplements and updates.
The issues of CILP are not cumulative.
CILP is available online on Westlaw (CILP database). Coverage is of the
current eight weeks. Again, the online advantages are the ability to combine
concepts or terms with boolean connectors and the ability to search for specific
terms or names that might not be indexed in the print version.
Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law. 1958-
K9.N323x - Reference Alcove
Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law is a quarterly paper index that
covers English language periodicals which apply social and behavioral science
to law and have research value, but which have not been indexed by
Index to Legal Periodicals, Current Law Index, Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals,
Legal Resource Index, or LegalTrac. The fall issue is an annual cumulation.
Beginning with Volume 21, the periodicals indexed do not include any law journals
or any other periodicals which are directly law-related, with the xception of
newer periodicals not yet indexed elsewhere. Access is primarily through a broad
subject index which uses Library of Congress subject headings. An author index
refers the user to full bibliographic entries in the subject index. This
index is not available on Lexis or Westlaw.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals. 1960-
Reference Alcove - Index Table
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals may be used to access articles, book reviews,
collections of essays, biographies and festschriften from approximately 360
foreign language legal periodicals. Entries are in the original language,
except that languages not using the Roman alphabet have been transliterated
into that alphabet. Indexes include a subject index, author index, a geographical index,
and a book review index. This index is not available on Lexis or Westlaw.
Index to Canadian Legal Periodical Literature. 1961-
K9.N313x - Reference Alcove
This quarterly paper index may be used to access approximately 84 Canadian legal
journals from 1961 to the present. Each issue cumulates material from the previous
issues that year; the fourth issue is a bound volume. Access is to both the civil
and common systems of law in Canada. Indexes include a subject index, an author
and title index, a table of cases, and a book review index. This index is not
available on Lexis or Westlaw.
Legal Journals Index. 1986-
K33.L45 - Reference Alcove
This paper index covers all journal titles published in the United Kingdom that
are devoted to law or frequently contain articles on legal topics. Monthly issues
are cumulated quarterly and there is also an annual bound cumulation. Separate
subject, author, case, legislation, and book review indexes are provided. This
index is not available on Lexis or Westlaw.
Index to Federal Tax Articles. 1975-
KF6271.G64 - Reference Alcove
This paper index provides access to the literature on federal income, estate,
and gift taxation. Articles indexed appear in legal, tax, economic, and non-periodical
publications. Proceedings of major tax institutes are also included. The service
includes an author and subject index. The obvious advantage of this index over
the more general legal periodical indexes for tax researchers is the greater
breadth of publications and publication types included in this index.
CCH Federal Tax Articles.
KF6335.A6C57x - Reference Alcove
Commerce Clearing House (CCH) publishes this monthly looseleaf reporter
which provides access to citations and abstracts of articles on federal income,
estate, gift, and excise taxation appearing in legal, accounting, and business
periodicals. Proceedings and papers from major tax institutes are also noted.
Contents are arranged by Internal Revenue Code section numbers, but citations
may also be located using the index to topics and the index to authors.
Please note that access to Lexis and Westlaw is limited to law school faculty
and students per agreements with these companies.
LEXIS
The LAWREV library on the Lexis-Nexis service currently consists of the
full text of 200+ law reviews, several American Bar Association (ABA)
publications and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
periodicals, Environmental Law Institute publications, American Law Reports (ALR)
annotations and Lawyers' Edition 2nd Series (L.Ed.2d) articles, and a number of
Warren Gorham & Lamont tax journals. This library also contains the
Legal Resource Index file discussed above. The present focus of the LAWREV library
concentrates on both state and national issues of legal significance.
WESTLAW
Westlaw has several legal text and periodical full text databases. These
include the JLR database which contains the journals and law reviews; the TEXTS
database which contains legal texts and treatises; and the AMBAR-TP database
which contains American Bar Association journals. All three databases can be
searched simultaneously using the TP-ALL database. As mentioned previously,
the Legal Resource Index is also available on Westlaw.
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