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8 Legal Reference Services Q. 1 (1988)

handle is hein.journals/lgrefsq8 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL There is a certain absurdity in trying to write a pertinent and topical editorial when we know that it will be six or more months before it reaches print. Given the constant flux in the world of legal research these days, it would call for powers of prescience that far outstrip those of mere mortals to predict the problems that will be current and pressing by the time you read this editorial. Indeed, given the slowness of the publication process and the sweeping changes that are taking place in the way we use technology and conceptualize the legal research process, it may be hazardous to discuss anything more than our favorite recipes for rhubarb pie. Undaunted, however, by the prospect of being outdated before this editorial even reaches galley stage, we'd like to address an issue that may have the good grace to remain controversial for at least another year: citation to computer databases. For a number of years now we have complained, and listened to law review editors and lawyers complain, about the impossibility of getting jump cites to cases or other information found in one of the LEXIS or WESTLAW databases, In July of 1986, LEXIS tantalized us with the prospect of star paging to the Federal Reporters, only to have L.egal Reference Services Quarterly, Vol. 8(1/2) 1988 © 1988 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. I

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