Current Awareness

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION of LAW SCHOOLS

The AALS website provides current information about AALS programs, standards, law school statistics and links to all member law schools. < http://www.aals.org/ >

CURRENT INDEX to LEGAL PERIODICALS (CILP)

The Current Index to Legal Periodicals is a weekly publication of the University of Washington Law Library. Working with a list of 100 subject headings, CLIP indexes approximately 475 legal periodicals and acts as a rapid current awareness tool for accessing law reviews and journals. CILP also provides full tables of contents of all journals indexed.

CILP is a database on WESTLAW and is also available on the library web page as a licensed database where you can select the article you want and be linked to the full-text on LEXIS-NEXIS and WESTLAW.

SmartCILP is a special service that allows faculty to set up a profile of topics and/or journals of interest and receive a weekly email message that includes a list of the articles that matches your profile. This email message is clearly identified as “SmartCILP” and the article entries are linked to the full-text on LEXIS-NEXIS and WESTLAW.

To set up your SmartCILP profile and start receiving your weekly alert of articles that fit your interest profile, go to < http://lib.law.washington.edu >

Then Click on “SmartCILP” from the Contents list on the screen.

Click on “Create or Change a SmartCILP Profile” and fill in the online form using the Pierce Law authorization code which you can get from your liaison or from Reference Librarian Barry Shanks.

Make your selections and click on the button at the bottom of the scrolled screen to initiate your profile which will arrive every Wednesday by email.

E-Notes

Formerly Library Notes, Library e-Notes is the Pierce Law Library’s electronic newsletter with current information on library hours, news, book reviews, research tips, and changes in library policy. Stay up-to-date on your law library by checking Library e-Notes and its archive files .

INDEXMASTER

This licensed database allows you to locate bibliographic information about legal treatises by author, title, publisher, and keyword. Once you locate relevant treatises you can search the title’s index and table of contents to precisely pinpoint coverage. This product is useful if you are trying to identify recent legal treatises in print for research or textbook selection purposes. Note that Indexmaster does not provide the full-text of the treatise.

JURIST: The Law Professor’s Network

This website is dedicated to promoting legal education by providing an online forum enabling law professors to locate information relevant to their work as teachers and scholars. It provides a forum for global exchange of ideas with law professors around the world. This site includes subject guides, online articles, course syllabi, legal news and legal research sites.

LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP NETWORK (LSN)

The library subscribes to the Legal Scholarship Network which is an electronic archive of legal scholarship providing early dissemination of research related to law to legal, economics, and business scholars by publishing submitted abstracts and soliciting abstracts as well as full-text of top quality research. LSN also publishes a series of electronic journals containing abstracts of working papers and articles accepted for publication in various areas of law.

LEGALTRAC

LegalTrac is a licensed database that provides an index to over 800 Anglo-American legal periodicals and newspapers since 1980. If you are preparing a topical bibliography for your scholarly research or simply trying to locate a specific law review article, LegalTrac is an expedient way to identify relevant articles. Subject, keyword and relevancy searches are available. Note that LegalTrac does not provide the full-text of the article, but enough bibliographic information to decide if you want to get a copy in the library, on LEXIS-NEXIS, WESTLAW, or through interlibrary loan.