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1 Bimonthly Rev. L. Books 1 (1990)

handle is hein.journals/bimrvlab1 and id is 1 raw text is: BIMONTHLY REVIEW OF LAW BOOKS Volume 1 Number 1 January-February 1990 HOW TO FIND BOOK REVIEWS AT THE DAWN OF THE '90s by John Nann As the 1990s approach and computers and compact disc players proliferate in law libraries, it has become easier to search for periodical articles using the different forms in which the legal periodical indexes now appear. Legal periodical indexes are now available on compact disc, computer, and in the traditional paper format. Compact Disc The Index to Legal Periodicals (ILP) is available on a Wilsondisc compact disc from H.W. Wilson. The compact disc (CD-ROM) player is hooked up to a personal computer, and the information entered on the disc can be accessed with CD-ROM software. The Index to Legal Periodicals covers approximately 500 periodicals. The compact disc, produced quar- terly, covers the time period from August 1981 to the present. Like the ILP in paper, ILP on Wilsondisc allows searches for book reviews using the book author's name. However, Wilsondisc also allows searches by book title, reviewer's name, and subject. The Legal Resources Index (LRI) is available on compact disc from Information Access Co. This is the most extensive of the American legal periodical indexes. It indexes approximately 900 periodicals including law reviews, bar journals, and legal newspapers. Book reviews may be searched using the book's author, the name of the reviewer, or subject. The term book review is used as a second-level subject term, which makes perusing for book reviews among the list of subjects very easy. Computers LEXIS, from Mead Data Central, provides access to legal periodicals. LEXIS includes some 50 perio- See Michael Rustad's Editor's Preface to Bimonthly Review of Law Books on page 3. dicals in a full-text format which allows searching not only of the authors, reviewers, and titles, but also of the complete text of the review. Coverage in the full-text files goes back to the early 1980s. LEXIS also includes the Index to Legal Periodicals and LegalResources Index. In these files, the entire ILP or LRI citation, including subject terms, may be searched. WESTLAW, from West Publishing Company, also provides a variety of means for searching for legal periodicals. The Texts and Periodicals file includes approximately 280 items. Of these 280 items, approximately 50 include the complete issue and the rest selected items. The full text of these items may be searched. Coverage in the Text and Periodicals file varies by title; however, nothing is included before 1981. WESTLAW also includes periodical indexes which provide citations to legal periodicals. It contains the Legal Resources Index, which indexes at least 850 Anglo-American legal periodicals as well as selected articles of legal interest from general-interest periodicals. Coverage dates from 1980. Searches may be conducted using the citation, author, title, date, index terms, type of article, and summary (including: case name and citation, statute name and citation, jurisdiction, named person, reviewed author, and publisher). WESTLAW also includes the Index to Legal Periodicals discussed above, as well as the eight most recent issues of the Current Index to Legal Periodicals. CILP, published weekly, indexes some 300 legal publications. Searches may be conducted using citation, date, topic, text of index entry, and name of publication. The value of this publication is that it has more recent material than the more inclusive services. Obviously it has limited range. It should be noted that some WESTLAW contracts do not include ILP and CILP. (Continued on next page) Bimonthly Review of Law Books / January-February 1990

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