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PERIODICALS

Periodical literature is a good way to information on a topic, find a treaty citation, locate the text of a foreign law, the meaning of a term, figure out what an abbreviation stands for, etc. A list of periodical indices and sources of the full texts of periodical articles online follows: 

1. Index to Legal Periodicals & Books (New York: H.W. Wilson Co.) [Williams KF8 .I4]. Also available on Lexis & Westlaw. Access through Library's homepage - GULC only

2. Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (London: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Chicago: American Association of Law Libraries, 1960- ) [INTL REF KF8 .I35]. Access through Library's homepage - GULC only

3. Legal Journals Index (Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire: Legal Information Resources Ltd., 1986-) [INTL REF KD59 .L43].  Also available on Westlaw.  Access through Library's homepage - GULC only

4. Legal Resource Index. Available on Lexis & Westlaw. The print version is Current Law Index (Los Altos, CA : Information Access Corp.,1980-) [Williams KF8 .C8]. Access through Library's homepage - GULC only

5. Public International Law (Berlin; New York: Springer-Verlag, 1975- ) [INTL REF KZ3 .P83]. An online version of this index is available on the Max Planck Institute's Web site.

6. Other indexes are also available in either print and/or electronic form. See the Library's Journal Indexes page and the Web Databases page for other indexes. These include PAIS International, Social Science Index, Current Index to Legal Periodicals, and many others. - GULC only

7. Szladits, A Bibliography on Foreign and Comparative Law: Books and Articles in English (Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana, 1995-) [INTL K520 .S9].  An excellent source for locating English-language articles and books.

8. Lexis and Westlaw. Both have many full-text articles from a variety of journals. Access to periodical indexes is also available.

Revised August 2005