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| Researching International
Human Rights Law |
Many periodicals (both legal and non-legal) contain articles on a variety of human rights issues. Be sure to use indexes listed below and not just full-text sources on LexisNexis and Westlaw. For more information on researching articles, see Locating International & Foreign Law Journal Articles. The databases listed below may only be accessed by the UC Berkeley Community. Some of these databases are available through remote access. Be sure to set the proxy settings on your computer. Once the proxy settings have been set, you will be prompted for your CalNet user id and passphrase. Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (ILP). Contains citations from more than 820 legal periodicals from 1981 and an index to law books published since 1993 from the United States, Canada, Ireland, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand. Updated monthly. The print edition covers 1908 on. Also available in print and on LexisNexis and Westlaw. A retrospective version of ILP is also available, see the Law Library's list of databases. Legal Resource Index (LRI). Indexes approximately 800 legal publications from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand and Australia. It also covers law related articles from more than 1,000 additional business and general interest periodicals. Coverage begins in 1980 and is updated monthly. Also available in print as Current Law Index (until 2003) and on LexisNexis and Westlaw. Available from the Law Library's list of databases as Legaltrac. Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP). A multilingual index to articles and book reviews appearing in approximately 492 legal journals published worldwide. The print edition covers from 1960 on and the electronic version covers 1985 to present. Available from the Law Library's list of databases. Legal Journals Index (LJI). Indexes approximately 485 journals from the UK & Europe. Coverage is from 1986 on. The print versions of this index (Legal Journals Index and European Legal Journals Index) discontinued in 1999. Legal Journals Index is available on Westlaw. Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP). Provides access to approximately 475 university legal publications and other law journals. Good way to update your research since it indexes journals 4-6 weeks before they are picked up by ILP and LRI. Available from the Law Library's list of databases. CILP is also available on Westlaw. Public International Law (Berlin; New York: Springer-Verlag, 1975-). See also the Max Planck Institute's web site. HeinOnline, provides legal researchers with collections of the earliest legal periodicals and other legal classics that are out-of-print or hard to obtain in hardcopy (UCB only). Other indexes that focus on law-related topics can also be of use when doing human rights research. All of these indexes are available from the UCB List of Article Databases (UCB only).
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