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Finding Articles by Citation | Finding Articles by Topic
Finding Articles by Topic - Indexes
Finding Articles by Topic - Full Text
Legal Databases | Yale University Databases
Introduction
This guide will assist you in conducting both legal and non legal research. The Yale Law School Library has an extensive collection of periodical materials in both print and electronic format. In addition, we have access to the materials available in the main campus and medical center libraries.
Finding articles by citation
Imagine you already have a citation for an article, for example:
Samuel A. Alito Jr., Documents and the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination, 48 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 27 (1986).
The first step is to see whether the publication is available in the Online Journals and Newspapers Database. Simply copy and paste the journal name, run a search, and click on the appropriate title. You may receive several options for locating the journal electronically, but if you require a pdf of the article, go directly to the HeinOnline link.
Finding articles by topic
This section will show you how to find articles in both legal and non-legal databases. You can use a periodicals index to find results, or you can search in a full text database.
Finding articles using indexes
A periodicals index contains basic information gleaned the article itself (e.g. Title, Author, Date of Publication, Journal Title), plus one or more subject terms assigned by the indexer to describe the contents of the article. Articles assigned the same subject term are thus cross-referenced to each other. When you search in a periodicals index, you can generally search any indexed field, but not the contents of the articles.
Imagine you are searching for additional articles related to "documents" and "self-incrimination." Go to an index database, such as the Index to Legal Periodicals, and enter "self-incrimination" as a search term. You can find similarly indexed terms on the left, which may help you with your search. On the right, you can narrow your results. Enter "documents" and you will receive a list of articles that deal with the subject matter of both self-incrimination and documents. How many appeared? Did you find the article by Justice Alito?
| Index to Legal Periodicals |
Index to Legal Periodicals is a bibliographical database that cites articles from more than 615 legal periodicals. Online coverage begins in 1981, including law reviews, selected bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and government publications published in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Periodicals are indexed if they regularly publish legal articles of high quality and permanent reference value. Articles must be at least five pages or two folio pages, and case notes, bibliographies, biographies, and notes of legislation at least two pages or one folio page in order to qualify for inclusion.
Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective cumulates citations from print editions of Index to Legal Periodicals published between 1918–1981.
The print version goes back to 1908
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| Current Index to Legal Periodicals |
Covers delay in ILP |
| Legaltrac |
LegalTrac provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. LegalTrac also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles. Covers 1980-present |
| Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals |
1985-present (scroll down to select IFLP from list on link) |
| Legal Periodicals and Books Retrospective |
1918-present |
| Jones and Chipman Periodical Index |
1786-1922 |
| Yale Multi-Database Search |
Platform that allows users to search across a spectrum of subjects and indexes. |
| Academic Search Premier |
Academic Search Premier is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database for many journals with indexing and abstracts for many more journals in the collection. Nearly every area of academic study is included: computer science, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Images are also included in this collection.
PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. |
| ProQuest Newspapers |
Coverage of national, international, and local news. Includes Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, LA Times, NY Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. |
| Periodicals Index Online |
Periodicals Index Online is the new name for Periodicals Contents Index - a database of millions of articles published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years. |
| Periodicals Archive Online (ProQuest) |
An archive of digitized, full-image journal articles, international, scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences disciplines from 1802 to 1995 with links to JSTOR enabled. Yale's Subscription includes access to these collections of titles that extend the range of JSTOR: English Literature (75 titles, 1813-1989), History (75 titles, 1813-1989) , British Periodicals Collection I (160 journals, 1681 - 1920). |
Finding articles in full text databases
A full-text periodicals database contains the actual text of the article in addition to descriptive information. It may be arranged primarily to facilitate browsing or it may provide enhanced search capabilities to allow you to perform complex searches.
| Google Scholar |
provides .pdf image and text for journals in the arts and humanities, back to the beginning of the journal (in most cases), and up to 2-3 years of current. Look for Yale Fulltext links to access the materials directly. |
| Hein Online |
provides .pdf image and text for journals in the arts and humanities, back to the beginning of the journal (in most cases), and up to 2-3 years of current. |
| JSTOR |
provides .pdf image and text for journals in the arts and humanities, back to the beginning of the journal (in most cases), and up to 2-3 years of current. |
| Westlaw |
TP-ALL database- provides text of University Law Reviews back to the early 1980s in some instances (most coverage is from the early 1990s). |
| Lexis |
ALLREV database - provides text of University Law Reviews back to late 1970s in some instances (most coverage is from the early 1990s). |
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