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The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals: an Essential Tool for Researchers and Practitioners

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2022

Kristen Rowlett
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Abstract

The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals is an essential tool for locating credible secondary sources on foreign, comparative, and international law topics in multiple languages. This article, by Kristen Rowlett, gives a brief overview of the history of the Index. Then, the article explores the Index's search functionally and the importance of the humans behind the Index. Finally, the article previews future enhancements for the Index.

Keywords

legal researchindexesIndex to Foreign Legal Periodicals
Type
Current Interests
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 21 , Issue 3-4 , December 2021 , pp. 211 - 217
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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Footnotes

1 Reynolds, Thomas H, ‘Indexing of Legal Journal Literature and the History and Development of the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals’ (1984) 15 The Law Librarian 38, 38Google Scholar.

2 ibid 38.

3 ibid 38.

4 Hoffman, Marci, ‘The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals’ (2016) 34 The Indexer, 42Google Scholar.

5 Reynolds (n 1) 39.

6 ibid 40.

7 ibid 40.

8 Hoffman (n 4) 42.

9 Reynolds (n 1) 40.

10 Hoffman (n 4) 42.