Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 December 2016
Marci Hoffman, General Editor of the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, reports on how this major multilingual legal index handles its content, and how it is developing in the electronic era.*
1 See IFLP's website, http://www.law.berkeley.edu/library/iflp/.
2 See AALL's website, http://aallnet.org/tm/about.
3 For more information on the history of IFLP, see Reynolds, Thomas H., Indexing of Legal Journal Literature and the History and Development of the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, 15 Law Libr. 38 (1984)Google Scholar and Dingle, Lesley, A Survey of Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Users and Its Implications for Future Developments of the Index, 104 Law Libr. J. 427 (2012)Google Scholar, available at http://www.aallnet.org/main-menu/Publications/llj/vol-104/no-3/2012-30.pdf.
4 For more information about IFLP on HeinOnline, see http://heinonline.org/HeinDocs/IFLP.pdf.
5 Also known as Legal Resources Index, see http://www.gale.com/pdf/facts/legal.pdf.
6 For more information about ILP, see https://www.ebscohost.com/academic/index-to-legal-periodicals-and-books-full-text.
7 See the editorial team at https://www.law.berkeley.edu/library/iflp/editorial.html.
8 See the list of indexers at http://www.law.berkeley.edu/library/iflp/indexing.html. Not only are the indexers fluent in the language of the journals they index, many of them are trained lawyers and law librarians.
9 Available at https://www.law.berkeley.edu/library/iflp/headings.html.
10 See Dingle, Lesley, A Survey of Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Users and Its Implications for Future Developments of the Index, 104 Law Library J. 427, 436 (2012)Google Scholar, available at http://www.aallnet.org/main-menu/Publications/llj/vol-104/no-3/2012-30.pdf.