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

2. 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!!!!!

3. 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

4. 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.
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.

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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:
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:
Then click on Electronic Resources

8. 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.

9. 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
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.

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. How to get to OmniFile Full Text Mega
Go to library main page at:
Click on Electronic Resources
Scroll down page
Click on OminFile
Go to library main page at:
Click on Electronic Resources
Scroll down page
Click on FirstSearch
Click on list all databases
Select WilsonSelectPlus

14. 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
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

15. 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?

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

17. HOW????

18. INTEGRATAED SEARCHING!!!!!!!

19. 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

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

21. 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.

22. 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

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