Sources for Law Reviews and Other Periodical Articles

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Sources for Law Reviews and Other Periodical
Articles

• Library Research Guide

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Library Catalogs

• http//www.law.berkeley.edu/library.htm - Library
  Catalogs
• LawCat
• Title Search CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW
• note links to JSTOR, Hein Online (both back to
  1912) and EBSCO. Hein back to 1912
• Author Search Choper, Jesse
• Melvyl
• Title Search British journal of political
  science.
• Note UC-elinks
• Pathfinder
• Title Search Journal of studies on alcohol.

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Indexes LegalTrac

• LegalTrac
• http//www.law.berkeley.edu/library.htm Top
  Databases
• Starting in 1981, LegalTrac indexes all major law
  reviews, legal newspapers, specialty law
  publications, bar association journals and
  thousands of law-related articles from general
  interest publications. LegalTrac also includes
  selective full text. A version of LegalTrac
  (renamed Legal Resource Index) is available on
  both Lexis and Westlaw.
• Advanced Search Keyword international and
  adoption
• Note subject headings
• Intercountry Adoption
• Note UC-elinks
• Advanced Search Author Browse for Berring
• Note various forms of author name

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Indexes Index to Legal Periodicals

• Index to Legal Periodicals Books
• http//www.law.berkeley.edu/library.htm Top
  Databases
• Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (1981 -
  present) and Index to Legal Periodicals
  Retrospective (1918-1981) Indexes around 1000
  leading legal journals, yearbooks, institutes,
  bar association journals, university publications
  and law reviews, and government publications from
  the United States, Puerto Rico, Great Britain,
  Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The
  database also indexes some 1,400 monographs per
  year. In addition there is the Index to Legal
  Periodicals Retrospective that indexes over 500
  legal periodicals back to 1918.
• Example Keyword international and adoption
• Note subject Intercountry adoption
• Note indexes books Jacobson, H. Culture keeping
  white mothers, international adoption, and the
  negotiation of family difference Vanderbilt
  University Press 2008
• Example Author riesenfeld, s
• Note results back to 1930s

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Indexes Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals

• Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
  http//www.law.berkeley.edu/library.htm
  Databases Finding Books Articles
• The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP)
  database indexes articles as well as book reviews
  from more than 490 legal journals published
  worldwide, including journals, essay collections,
  festschrifts, and congress reports.
• Example Keyword international and adoption
• Note subject adoption name of country
• Note articles are not all in English (subject
  headings descriptors are in English)
• Example Author berring
• Example Author - buxbaum

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Lexis and Westlaw

• Westlaw Journals Law Reviews Combined (JLR)
• Note you can limit your search to particular
  practice areas Law Reviews, Bar Journals Legal
  Periodicals Text Periodical Combination
  Databases Practice-Area Databases for Texts
  Periodicals
• Lexis Law Reviews, Combined
• Note you can limit your search to particular
  practice areas Secondary Legal Law Reviews
  Journals Law Reviews by Area of Law
• Why use indexes?
• Date and journal coverage
• Precision vs. recall issues
• Human indexing

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Hein Online

• Hein Online
• http//www.law.berkeley.edu/library.htm Top
  Databases
• Use Law Journal Library
• Better used with a known item
• All journals are linked from LawCat
• Example Browse to 23 Virginia Law Review 38

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Working Papers

• http//www.law.berkeley.edu/library.htm
  Databases Finding Books Articles Working
  Papers
• Legal Scholarship Network
• Working papers and articles accepted for
  publication in law, economics and business.
• Example Search Author Robert Post
• Example Search Author Berry and Search
  Terms Alient
• bepress Working Papers
• A collection of working papers, many law-related,
  published using bepress.
• Example Search Advanced Search Last Name -
  Guzman

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Non-Legal Indexes and Databases

• http//www.law.berkeley.edu/library.htm
  Databases Finding Books Articles General
  Article Databases
• Examples
• Academic Search Complete
• Business Source Complete
• Factiva
• JSTOR
• Project Muse
• Proquest Direct
• See http//www.law.berkeley.edu/library.htm
  Databases (right context menu) Finding the Right
  Resource UCB Article Databases or UCB
  Electronic Resources

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Blogs

• Law Professor Blogs - http//www.lawprofessorblogs
  .com/
• Examples
• http//www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/
• http//leiterlawschool.typepad.com/
• A useful listing of law blogs is at Blawg
  http//www.blawg.com/