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Indexing the International Law Reports (ILR)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2010

Maureen McGlashan
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Abstract

The index has been a key feature of the International Law Reports (ILR) since their inception in 1919. Apart from the individual volume indexes there have been five consolidated versions, each helping, by bringing related material together, to cast the jurisprudence in a new light. A sixth consolidation is in progress, running from Volumes 1–150. Maureen McGlashan, the indexer, describes the principles underlying the ILR indexing process and asks whether, with the Reports now available online at Justis, the index is any longer necessary. She also considers the role of the ancillary apparatus such as the Tables of Cases and Treaties.

Keywords

International Law Reportsindexinginternational lawlaw reportstreaties
Type
Cat, Class and Metadata.....Part 2
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , September 2010 , pp. 205 - 210
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2010

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Footnotes

1 Annual Digest of Public International Law Cases, 1925–1926 (In fact volume 3, the 1919–1922 and 1923–1924 volumes appearing in 1932 and 1933).

2 Volume 7.

3 Consolidated alphabetical Tables of Cases Volumes 1–125 and 126–135 can be found at http://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/publications/international_law_reports.php

4 One result of this was that I did not at the time notice the extent to which index headings often paralleled the classification list referred to above, with page spans running from the beginning to end of each section. I am gradually eradicating such long spans which add no value to what the user can get from looking up the tables of contents and take up a lot of undifferentiated indexing space.

5 Qiyu, Zhang, ‘Term selection: the key to successful indexing’, The Indexer, Volume 27(3) (September 2009).Google Scholar