1. Acquisitions/Serials Librarian
Internet Legal Research – CLE March 5, Locating Legal Periodicals and Journal Articles
Next we are going to look at locating Legal Periodicals and Journal Articles on the Internet.
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Wendy E. Moore, M.S. in L.S.
Acquisitions/Serials Librarian
University of Georgia
School of Law Library

2. “There is this article I want to find…”
coverage – only sometimes full-text available
buried links deep within a site
difficult to search for with a search engine like Google
Can you really read a law review or journal article on the Web? The answer is, "it depends.” There are a growing number of legal periodicals that are freely available on the Internet, but sometimes tracking down a specific article or topic can be difficult.
The coverage varies greatly from title to title – sometimes there are full-text articles, other times only abstracts or tables of contents. However, even abstracts and tables of contents can be helpful when trying to get a full citation or more information.
Another problem with locating legal periodicals on the Internet is that the links to this content are often buried deep on their host's websites.
For example, let’s say that you are interested in identifying some current articles published in a certain legal field, such as immigration. No matter how good a searcher you are, it is nearly impossible to put a topic into Google and get back a concise, usable list of law review articles.
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3. for example, if we put in the terms “recent Immigration Law articles” into Google…
we get almost 24,000 hits
many of the links are to Law Firm newsletters, that might be interesting, but it is a lot to sort through.
If we do another search for “Emory Law Review”
we get many relevant looking links,
but none that take us
directly to full-text articles.
Among the listed sites are links to some of the directories I’m going to talk about today. You can save yourself a search step if you just start with one of these directories rather than searching Google.
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4. Specialized Websites…
the FASTEST AND SIMPLEST way to locate specific information, such as legal periodical articles
directories of journal titles
searchable indexes and databases of articles
table of contents for law reviews
There are specialized directories and search tools for legal periodicals on the web,
which take away much of the guesswork and ease the problem of locating articles from these publicly available sites.
We are going to look at specialized websites for both legal and non-legal articles, including:
directories of journal titles
searchable indexes and databases of articles
table of contents for law reviews
You don’t have to reinvent the wheel every time you want to find a legal periodical on the Web – someone has already done the work for you!
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5. Legal Periodical Directories
academic law reviews
lists of journal titles – alphabetical most popular
full-text availability
academic/non-profit hosts
Let’s start off looking at some directories that specialize in legal periodicals.
Many legal periodicals, especially law reviews sponsored by law schools and newsletters from non-profit organizations, are publicly available on the Internet. Commercial legal periodicals, too, will sometimes offer articles freely on the Internet, or at least make the table of contents or an abstract available publicly.
Directories make links to legal periodical titles available in some sort of organized list, usually alphabetical.
Some notate which titles have full-text availability.
Most of these directories are hosted and maintained by academic law schools or non-profit organizations.
Because of time we are only going to look at 5 directories. In the paper there are additional directories listed that aren’t quite as complete as these, but make good supplemental resources.
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6. University of Southern California Law Library – Legal Journals
nearly 250 publications
organized by categories
One of the best directories for legal periodicals currently available is the University of Southern California Law Library – Legal Journals site.
It covers nearly 250 publications,
organized into the following categories:
General Law Reviews, Commercial Law Journals, ABA Journals and Newsletters, General Interest and Computing Periodicals, Subject Specific Law Reviews, Foreign Law Journals, Law Review Locating Services, and E-Journal Locating Services.
Nearly half of the publications listed provide full-text of the journal articles.
Each title is clearly marked with a code,
indicating what level of content is available at that site. The codes are: F = Full-text; A = Abstracts; T = Table of Contents; S = Subscription Information.
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more than half full-text
coded content level
F=full-text
A=abstract
T=table of contents
S=subscription info

7. more on USC Legal Journals…
If we look for “Mercer Law Review”
we find it under “General Law Reviews” and marked with a “F” for full-text.
When appropriate there are brief annotations describing each publication.
If we look under the “Subject-Specific Law Reviews” category,
we can locate a link and a description for “Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law.”
It is marked with a “T” for Table of Contents only, so, if I want full-text from this journal, I am out of luck – it isn’t available.
Because of the way the journal titles are divided into categories, it can make it a bit more challenging to know right away if a particular journal has a link on this site. However, whenever there is a discrepancy between this site and another legal periodical directory concerning the level of content available (such as if a particular journal is full-text or not), this site generally has the correct information.
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8. JURIST – Law Reviews http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/lawrev.htm
American law reviews
alphabetical
The JURIST – Law Reviews site provides
a listing of American law reviews that have a substantial web presence.
The display is an easy to browse, straight alphabetical list, with no categorizations or annotations,
divided into 3 sections: A-I, J-R, and S-Z.
If we click on J-R,
then scroll down…
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9. more on JURIST… 100 full-text links
links to specific parts of journal’s website
…we locate the link to the “Journal of Legal Studies”
and notice that it is marked “Full Text-PDF”, which means there is a full image version of this journal available.
There are nearly 100 titles available in full-text and each of these are clearly marked with a "Full Text" surscript note or with a "Full Text – PDF" note.
A unique feature of this site are the links to specific parts of each journal's website.
These links display as the following: Current | Back | Search | Submissions | Subscriptions | Board | Contact
For example, under the “Journal of Legal Studies” which is marked as “Full-Text” there is a link for “Current”, which means we should find full-text articles to the current issue on this website
but if we look closely at the “Journal of Online Law” which is also marked as “Full Text”, we notice that there is no link to the “Current” issues, only the “Back” issues are available full-text.
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10. WashLaw – Law Journals http://www.washlaw.edu/lawjournal.html
updated frequently
alphabetical
over 300 titles
annotations
Produced by the Washburn University School of Law, WashLaw – Law Journals
is frequently updated
has an easy to browse alphabetical directory
covers over 300 law related titles available on the Internet. While there is no clear code designating which links have full-text articles,
each title has a brief annotation
describing the journal and sometimes noting availability of full-text or abstracts. Additionally, WashLaw has a unique feature among the legal periodical directories.
The site offers a searchable index of full-text articles from law journals covered in the directory.
The search box is located at the top of the page and is called “Full Text Index for Law Journals” and the searches are done using site search software called WebGlimpse
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searchable index of full-text articles

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If we put in the term: “Immigration” into the search box, we get…
a long list of links where the term “immigration” appears
The search results are fairly raw looking and take you away from the WashLaw site into a page generated by the WebGlimpse software, which can be a little confusing at first. If you want to return to the WashLaw page you need to use your browser’s “back” button.
Dominated by links to internet legal news sources and non-traditional journal literature, such as Law.com,
E Law, and LII, rather than traditional law reviews, the "Full Text Index for Law Journals" search results are not comprehensive like you would find in a commerical full-text periodical database. None-the-less, it is the only legal periodical directory that also offers a full-text search index.
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12. Hieros Gamos – Law Journals http://www.hg.org/journals.html
foreign & international law focus
250 law journals, newsletters, & bulletins
alphabetical
[Ear-os GAH-mos] Hieros Gamos – Law Journals directory is more
international in both subject and source of publication than other legal periodical directories we have looked at. When you are especially interested in articles about foreign or international law, then this would be the best directory to use to start your research.
It covers almost 250 law related journals, newsletters, and bulletins and
the alphabetical arrangement of the titles
is exceptionally easy to read and scan, although it offers no indication of which titles have full-text availability.
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13. University Law Review Project / FindLaw http://www. lawreview
academic law reviews
same info on FindLaw
The Coalition of Online Journals and FindLaw in cooperation with Stanford, JURIST, LII, and AustLII maintain the directory of law reviews called the University Law Review Project.
As its name indicates this directory is limited to links to academic law reviews. Unfortunately there is no indication of full-text availability and the links appear to be checked infrequently.
Access to this directory is available on both the University Law Review Project website and on Findlaw.
In fact after you leave the main page, all of the pages say “FindLaw.”
This directory's greatest strength
is its arrangement
by subject area
and by law school.
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by topic & law school

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If you know the law school that produces law review you are looking for, in this case “Georgia State,”
just click on “Georgia”
A list of Georgia law schools appears
With subsections
marked “Journals”
under each of them.
Under “Journals” for Georgia State there is a link to their “Law Review”
which takes you directly to the journal on their web site
So, if you don’t know the title of a law review, but you know the school, then this directory can make your search very easy.
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15. Legal Periodical Searchable Indexes
keyword searching of topics
commercial legal publishers
law firm client newsletters
full-text
Most academic legal periodicals, such as law reviews, are typically organized in directories. But, legal periodical literature is not limited to law reviews. There are a few of searchable indexes that specialize in law-related articles available on the Internet.
Focus on keyword searching of a small database of articles, rather than lists of periodical titles
These tend to be produced by commercial legal publishers
Mainly cover articles from law firm client newsletters
Everything in the database is full-text
Two of these searchable indexes you might want to take are look at are…
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16. Martindale. com – Legal Articles http://www. martindale
good for subject searches
firm publications
free registration required
Martindale.com – Legal Articles has a searchable index of articles written by attorneys on various legal topics.
It is a good resource for getting information on specific topics, but maybe not as good for locating specific articles.
The index is dominated by firm publications, which gives this resource a very different make-up that many of the legal periodical directories that are dominated by academic law reviews.
Free registration is required to view the full-text of publications, while non-registered users may view the abstracts only.
Searching is divided
into Practice and Industry areas
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17. …more on Martindale.com – Legal Articles
There is also an Advanced Search option that gives additional ways to search such as, keyword, author, jurisdiction, and publication date. If we do a search in the Practice Area of “Trusts & Estates” and put in the keyword anywhere term “Georgia”
we get 2 articles
if we select one
we get an abstract, a link to the full-text (which you have to register to see), the ability to print or the article, and links to doing more searches by author, firm, or topic
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18. Law. com – Briefing Papers http://www. law
Law.com law firm sponsors
30 categories
no registration
easy to or print
There is another searchable index of law firm client newsletters called “Briefing Papers” available under Law Firm Central on Law.com.
Submitted by Law.com's law firm sponsors,
the Briefing Papers are organized into 30 categories that are searchable by practice area, firm, and keyword.
No registration is required and
it is easy to or view and print .pdf versions of the articles.
if we search by keyword
for the term “trusts”
we get 3 briefing papers
when one is selected
it takes you to an abstract and
a link to the full-text of the paper at the firm’s web site
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19. Table of Contents Services for Legal Periodicals
Tarlton Law Library – Contents Pages from Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals (Univ. of Texas School of Law)
A table of contents service can help you stay current with recently published articles in legal periodicals. While there are current awareness pages available at many educational and commercial sites, scope and coverage is limited at most of them. The one site that has a large number of current table of contents from law reviews
is the [Carlton] Tarlton Law Library – Contents Pages from Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
from the University of Texas School of Law
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20. more on Tarlton Law Library…
keyword searchable
tables of contents for more than 750 law reviews
updated daily
previous 3 months received
The site is made up of
a keyword searchable database of tables of contents
from more than 750 law reviews and other scholarly publications about the law.
The database is updated daily,
and covers titles from the United States and abroad received over the previous three months at the Tarlton Law Library.
One can simply view table of contents pages for specific journals or do a keyword search on a topic of interest.
If we do a search for the word “bankruptcy”…
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21. …more on Tarlton Law Library
we get a list of law reviews that have the word “bankruptcy” listed in their table of contents during the last 3 months
if we click on “Georgia Law Review”
we get the table of contents to the most recent issue that mentions the term “bankruptcy”. Once you are on a specific table of contents page you may need to browse or
do an "Edit/Find in page…" search to locate the instance of your search term in that table of contents. While the content is good for this site, the visual output for your searches is in plain ASCII text, which can be a little difficult to read on the monitor.
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22. more on Tarlton Law Library…
One can also view table of contents pages
issued over a specific time frame,
such as “this month”
once again the search results are fairly raw, so making use of the “Find in Page” feature under “Edit” on your browser is helpful.
The site also provides lists of the journals indexed in the database and links to those journals on the Internet
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23. Non-Legal Periodicals & Articles
both non-profit and commercial periodicals available on a variety of subjects
coverage can be uneven
best for subject/topic searching
examples of the following:
searchable indexes
directories
commercial periodical databases with full-text
Sometimes articles that you need to find are not part of traditional legal literature.
You may be looking for an article from Time magazine, a scholarly paper in a psychology journal, or a business report from a trade publication. Just as with legal periodicals, articles from non-profit and commercial periodicals are available on the Web on a variety of subjects.
Coverage in full-text can be uneven,
but usually you can find articles on a topic or subject of interest, although not always from a specific source.
Next we’ll look at an example of each of the following for locating non-legal periodicals and articles…
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24. FindArticles.com http://www.findarticles.com
LookSmart's FindArticles.com contains over 3.5 million articles from over 700 publications on a wide variety of subjects. It is also available from LookSmart's homepage by selecting the "Articles" search tab. Publications go back as far as 1998 and make available articles that sometimes are no longer directly accessible from their publications home pages.
You can search for articles using either keyword searching
or use directories arranged by both publication name and topic for the titles in the database
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25. …more on FindArticles.com
You can select a topic area and choose a publication from that list,
or go to the publication name directory and locate a title there,
in this case, the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics.
After clicking on the title it takes you to a page that gives you links to the journal’s actual website, to the journal articles on FindArticles.com, and subscription offers to the journal.
If we select “issues”
it will bring up a menu of available issues.
Click on the one you are interested in
and the full table of contents appears for that issue.
From that list you can select an article
and read it online, print it, or it to yourself
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26. more on FindArticles.com…
Keyword searching of articles in the FindArticles.com database is easy to do.
Entering the terms, “child custody laws” returned 360 articles. The only problem is that you have to scroll a little to see them. Since LookSmart is a commercial site,
it provides links to sponsor's websites that meet the entered search criteria and these sponsor links are listed first
before the links to the articles.
The keyword searching has advanced search options that allow for limiting searches to publications on specific topics and
make it easy to exclude certain terms from the results lists.
So, if we run this search again with these limits,
this time it finds only 84 articles, a lot less to have to scroll through
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27. NewsLink – U.S. Newspapers by State http://newslink.org/statnews.html
While there are many sites to get current news from, sometimes what is needed is a specific newspaper article from a specific newspaper. There are several good newspaper and local media directories available on the web that can assist in locating specific newspaper websites, but one of the best is NewsLink.
If we select “Georgia”
we find that NewsLink provides an easy to navigate interface
to not only links for daily and major metro newspapers,
but also, if we scroll down, links to specialized newspapers,
such as business, alternative, and campus newspapers.
This site is an excellent starting point when looking for newspaper articles from a particular city or region, but you don’t know the name of the local paper.
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28. GALILEO Databases all state citizens through local public library
commercial periodical full-text databases
arranged by topic & alphabetically
Access to commercial periodical databases providing full-text articles generally is available only by subscription or for a fee.
In Georgia, some commercial periodical databases are available to all state citizens through GALILEO, a virtual library sponsored by the Board of Regents for the University System of Georgia.
The Georgia General Assembly funds a core group of periodical databases with full-text articles, and then individual library groups may purchase additional databases for their specific users.
The databases are arranged both alphabetically and in topical groupings.
Some of the core databases available include: Academic Search Premier (Academic & News), MEDLINE (Medical), and Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (Social Sciences).
There are additional databases funded by public libraries that expand this list further with such databases as, ABI/Inform (Business), Newspaper Source (News), and FactSearch (Stats/Info).
There are also links to Georgia digital collections, such as Georgia Government Publications, Georgia Legislative Documents, and Georgia Census Data.
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29. Getting Access to GALILEO…
at local public library
home and work with library card & password
So, how do you access all these great databases on GALILEO?
GALILEO is available at every local public library in the state.
It is also available at home or at work using library assigned passwords/PINs and the current GALILEO password, which can usually be obtained from your local public library, if you are a cardholder for that library.
For example, if we go to the Gwinnett County Public Library’s Database and Articles page,
it says right at the top of the page how to get a library card and PIN.
If we then click on the GALILEO link,
we are taken to a prompt and it is here that we would enter our Gwinnett Co. library card number and PIN
And after we do that, we get to the GALILEO home page
where we have to enter the current GALILEO password
Go to your local public library's web page for more information on using GALILEO and obtaining a password. There is a web site address listed in the paper where you can get a list of Georgia public library web sites. <
Even though there is some paperwork involved in getting a library card from your local public library and obtaining current passwords, the depth and quality of periodical databases with full-text articles make GALILEO a valuable resource that should not be overlooked.
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30. Remember…
Many legal and non-legal articles are freely available on the Internet, but not all
Use specialized websites such as directories to help you determine if full-text is available on the Internet and locate the specific articles quickly
Make use of periodical databases provided by your local public library through GALILEO
What you need to remember about searching for articles on the Web is that:
Many legal and non-legal articles are freely available on the Internet, but not every journal title has full-text available, even if they have a web site for that journal title
Using specialized websites, such as legal periodical directories, will help you determine if full-text for a specific title is even available on the Web and then locate those specific articles more quickly
Using commercial periodical databases provided by your local public library through GALILEO opens up a rich collection of full-text articles otherwise unavailable
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