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Review of Current Law Index

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

Howard A. Hood
Howard A. Hood*
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt Law School; Associate Director for Legal Information Services, Vanderbilt Law Library, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
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Book Review Essay
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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , Summer 1988 , pp. 123 - 127
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Copyright © 1988 by International Association of Law Libraries 

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References

1. 8 International Journal of Law Libraries 56 (1980).Google Scholar

2. This review is based on frequent use of the Index to Legal Periodicals, the Current Law Index, and the latter's optical disk version, LegalTrac. Not evaluated here in detail are the CD version of ILP, the online versions of CLI and ILP, or the microfilm version of CLI.Google Scholar

3. Marke, “Legal Research: Growth, Value of Law Reviews,” 184 New York Law Journal, Nov. 18, 1980, p. 2; Jacobstein, “The Story on Index to Legal Periodicals,” 184 New York Law Journal, Dec. 16, 1980, p. 2; Marke, “Legal Research and Law Reviews,” 184 New York Law Journal, Dec. 22, 1980, p. 2; Jacobs, “Current Law Index an Asset for Research,” 184 New York Law Journal, Dec. 31, 1980, p. 2; Teitelbaum, “Letters on Indexes Found Informative,” 185 New York Law Journal, Feb. 17, 1981, p. 2.Google Scholar

4. Although both indexes concentrate on English language publications, they do include some Canadian journals in French and some Puerto Rican journals in Spanish. The main finding tool for non-English language legal serials is the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, “published by the University of California Press for the American Association of Law Libraries.”Google Scholar

5. 184 New York Law Journal, Nov. 18, 1980, p. 5.Google Scholar

6. Keyword or Boolean searching can be performed with the on-line versions of CLI and ILP and with ILP on CD-ROM.Google Scholar