Sources for Law Reviews and Other Periodical Articles
Library Catalogs
Boalt's online catalog. Available via the law library web page.
Library catalog for UC Berkeley. Most libraries on campus are included here; Boalt's holdings are not.
Library catalog for all UC campuses. Boalt's holdings are listed here.
Other catalogs such FirstSearch (WorldCat) are union catalog of 100s of libraries can be found at the Law Library's listing of catalogs .
Indexes
Starting in 1981, LegalTrac indexes all major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty law publications, bar association journals and thousands of law-related articles from general interest publications. LegalTrac also includes selective full text. A version of LegalTrac (renamed Legal Resource Index) is available on both Lexis and Westlaw.
Current Law Index
K2 .C8 Main Reading Room
Print version of LegalTrac.
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (1981 – present) and Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective (1918-1981) The Index to Legal Periodicals and Books indexes around 1000 leading legal journals, yearbooks, institutes, bar association journals, university publications and law reviews, and government publications from the United States, Puerto Rico, Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The database also indexes some 1,400 monographs per year. In addition there is the Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective that indexes over 500 legal periodicals back to 1918. A version of the database (just 1981 - present) is available on Lexis and Westlaw.
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books
K2 .C8 Main Reading Room
The print version of the index. Continues - An Index to Legal Periodical Literature (1888-1939) and Index to Legal Periodicals (1908-1994).
Index to legal articles from over 900 legal and general periodicals, from 1786 to 1922. You must select "Index to Legal Periodical Literature" from the drop-down menu of periodical indexes.
The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals database indexes articles as well as book reviews from more than 450 legal periodicals, including journals, essay collections, festschrifts, and congress reports from 1985 to the present.
K2 .I38 IFLP Main Reading Room
Print index to foreign law reviews starting in 1960.
Also available on Westlaw as Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals IFLP, but not via a law school subscription.
Full-Text Law Reviews
Note: you can limit your search to particular practice areas: Law Reviews, Bar Journals & Legal Periodicals : Text & Periodical Combination Databases : Practice-Area Databases for Texts & Periodicals
Note: you can limit your search to particular practice areas: Secondary Legal : Law Reviews & Journals : Law Reviews by Area of Law
Lexis and Westlaw also have many full-text, non-legal periodicals online. For example, in Lexis choose Legal > Reference > Medical or Legal > Reference > Business.
Provides the full-text to the early issues of many legal journals and is continually enhancing the database to include more recent volumes and more journals.
Working papers and articles accepted for publication in law, economics and business.
BePress Working Papers and the BePress Legal Depository are interesting new developments in the publication of working papers. Many of which are also at the California Digital Library eScholarship Repository
Consortium of universities and legal web sites that lists law journals - online and in print - and allows for full-text searching of those available on the internet.
Non-Legal Indexes and Full-Text Databases
There are indexes and full-text article databases for most subject areas. The Berkeley campus libraries will have most of these in paper and increasingly online. A list of some of the major law journal databases , general article databases, as well as an alphabetical listing of subscription databases are on the law library website and the main library has a full list of article databases
Gives access to 5000+ publications in PDF and HTML. Includes a good number of "popular" publications.
Reliable archive of important scholarly journal literature from a variety of disciplines.
250 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. Topics include cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and many others.
Indexes over 9 million articles from popular magazines, general interest journals, scholarly journals and newspapers in the humanities, social sciences, and general sciences.
Has electronic editions of book-length academic works that are of interest to both schlarly and general-interest readers. Some are free to all users, and others limited to UC faculty, students and staff.
Offers faculty a central location for depositing any research or schlarly output deemed appropriate by their participating UC research unit, center or department.
Blogs
A couple of examples of law-related blogs are:
Law Professor Blogs - http://www.lawprofessorblogs.com/
http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/
http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/
A useful listing of law blogs is at Blawg
Connecting to Library Databases from Off Campus
Many databases and electronic journals (including numerous resources made available through the UC Berkeley library system) such as LegalTrac, CQ Weekly, HeinOnline and the BNA products, have licensing agreements that allow access from any computer on the UC Berkeley campus .
To use these electronic resources from off-campus you will need to configure your web browser on your home computer or laptop to route through the campus proxy server. Your Internet browsing appears to be originating from campus—thereby opening the way to resources which are restricted to campus computers. The proxy server webpage offers detailed instructions for configuring your particular browser. This service is available for all UC Berkeley students. You will need your Calnet ID and Passphrase.
