PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW Part 7: Secondary Legal Sources: Legal Periodical Indexes

How to access the content of legal periodicals by topic By using a periodical index! So far we have looked at the different kinds of legal periodicals and where to find the names of these publications. But when you use legal periodicals, you will most likely be trying to find something about a subject. So where do you go to find articles in these legal peiodicals on your subject? The answer is: by using a periodical index!!!!!

Two Main Legal Periodical Indexes LegalTrac-- Gale Index to Legal Periodicals– HW Wilson Periodical indexes index a specified number of periodicals. Many are subject specific. There are two main ones that cover the legal field: LegalTrac-- Gale Index to Legal Periodicals– HW Wilson

LegalTrac Students, law school faculty and legal researchers will all find the legal publications they need in LegalTrac™. LegalTrac™ provides indexing for approximately 875 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Each title included in LegalTrac™ is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. LegalTrac™ also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles. http://www.gale.cengage.com/pdf/facts/legal.pdf Students, law school faculty and legal researchers will all find the legal publications they need in LegalTrac™. LegalTrac™ provides indexing for approximately 875 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Each title included in LegalTrac™ is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. LegalTrac™ also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles. http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/ItemDetailServlet?region=9&imprint=000&titleCode=INFO31&type=4&id=172054

Index to Legal Periodicals Relied on for over 50 years for complete coverage of the most important English language legal information, Index to Legal Periodicals is now available with full text! Indexing of over 1,025 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association publications, university publications, and government publications. Users will appreciate international coverage and access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, and more. Full text of over 325 select periodicals, as far back as 1994, many of them peer-reviewed. Relied on for over 50 years for complete coverage of the most important English language legal information, Index to Legal Periodicals is now available with full text! Indexing of over 1,025 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association publications, university publications, and government publications. Users will appreciate international coverage and access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, and more. Full text of over 325 select periodicals, as far back as 1994, many of them peer-reviewed.

Where to find these two legal Periodical Indexes LegalTrac---SMU Law Library, OU Law Library Index to Legal Periodicals—Harvard Law Library LegalTrac---SMU Law Library, OU Law Library Index to Legal Periodicals—Harvard Law Library

HOW TO FIND ARTICLES IN LEGAL PERIODICALS HERE AT SOSU? We don’t have a database on just the subject of law Our legal periodicals are scattered among several databases They are located on the Library webpage at: http://www.se.edu/lib/ Then click on Electronic Resources We don’t have a periodical index or database on just the subject of law here at SE, since we are not a law school. Our legal periodicals are scattered among several databases They are located on the Library webpage at: http://www.se.edu/lib/ Then click on Electronic Resources

Academic Search Complete Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals. Offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts and literature, history, and LAW. Over 700 law periodicals As you look at the list of databases, you might feel overwhelmed. But relax, we are only going to look at a few of these databases. The first one we are going to look at is Academic Search Premier. This databases contains the full text of over 4,500 journal. That is a lot. How many of you have ever seen 4,500 journals at once? I know that I have not. Well, anyway, about 100 of these journals are law journals.

Education Reseaech Complete Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. The massive file offers the world’s largest and most complete collection of full text education journals. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,820 journals, as well as full text for more than 900 journals, and includes full text for more than 71 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.   What’s good: only 38 journals are law journals, but they are all on education law http://www.se.edu/lib/ Education Research Complete is a database that is concerned only with education journals, so the total number of journals is less. AS far as legal journals is concerned, there are only seven journals are law journals, but they are all on the topic of this class, education law.

JSTOR is a not–for–profit organization that houses back runs of many academic journal titles and makes them available to colleges and universities. It is, in other words, a digital archive. Libraries can pick from several collections to subscribe to Our collections have 125 law journals JSTOR is a not–for–profit organization that houses back runs of many academic journal titles and makes them available to colleges and universities. It is, in other words, a digital archive. Libraries can pick from several collections to subscribe to Our collections have 50+ law journals to search through

How to get to JSTOR Go to Library main page at: http://www.se.edu/lib Click on Electronic Resources Link to JSTOR is on this page

OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson) Provides indexed and abstracted records Every article in this database is available full-text Includes US and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines. More than 300 titles are law periodicals The fourth database is called WilsonSelectPlus. This database contains around 3000 titles, and Every article in this database is available full-text Includes US and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines. More than 300 titles are law periodicals, so this databases, while not exclusively on law, contains the most periodicals of any that we have

How to get to OmniFile Full Text Mega Go to library main page at: http://www.se.edu/lib Click on Electronic Resources Scroll down page Click on OminFile Go to library main page at: http://www.se.edu/lib Click on Electronic Resources Scroll down page Click on FirstSearch Click on list all databases Select WilsonSelectPlus

How to get to these databases from off campus Click on the link to the database that you are trying to access If you are off campus, it will ask you for a username and password Your username will be: The [first initial of your first name] + [your entire last name] followed by the last two digits of your student ID Your password will be your birthdate Other instructions are on this proxy server page http://homepages.se.edu/library/electronic-resources/proxy-server/ Click on the link to the database that you are trying to access If you are off campus, it will ask you for a username and password Your username will be: The [first initial of your first name] + [your entire last name] followed by the last two digits of your student ID Your password will be your birthdate Other instructions are on this proxy server page http://homepages.se.edu/library/electronic-resources/proxy-server/

IS THERE A WAY TO SEARCH THESE DATABASES HOSTED BY DIFFERENT COMPANIES AT THE SAME TIME? Now to search in these databases on a topic, you will have to search in each of these databases ONE at a time. Now you could save time by searching all of them at once. IS THERE A WAY TO SEARCH THESE DATABASES HOSTED BY DIFFERENT COMPANIES AT THE SAME TIME?

YES!!! YES!!!! YES! YES! YES! You are supposed to be excited

HOW????

INTEGRATAED SEARCHING!!!!!!!

Integrated Searching This is a way to search multiple databases from multiple companies at the same time So you can search EBSCOhost, FirstSearch, JSTOR at the same time This is a way to search multiple databases from multiple companies at the same time So you can search EBSCOhost, FirstSearch, JSTOR at the same time

How to get to Integrated Searching Go to the Library main page. Click on the articles tab

Integrated Searching databases . ABI/INFORM Literature Resource Cent Academic Search Complete MasterFile Premier Am Chem Soc Pubs Military & Government Collection BioOne MLA Directory of Periodicals Business Source Complete MLA International Bibliography Comm and Mass Media Comp Newspaper Source Plus Computers and Applied Sci OmniFile FT Mega CQ Researcher Professional Development Collect E-Book Collection PsycINFO Education Research Complete PsycARTICLES ERIC Regional Business News Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia SocINDEX GreenFile Teacher Reference Center Health Source Consumer TopicSearch Health Source Nursing JSTOR Library, Info Sci and Tech Abs This is a list of all databases available through integrated searching. However, you cannot search all these databases at the same time. They are divided into subject groups, as shown on the next slide.

Integrated Searching http://www.se.edu/lib When you search in Integrated Search, you will be searching all databases at once by default Here are the subject groupings of the databases that were listed on the previous slide. Some databases may be found in more than one subject grouping. In order to preceed with searching, you have to select one of these subjects. The one that is automatically selected for you if you make no selections is GENERAL RESOURCES

We are now done with Part 7!! On to Part 8!!!!