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PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW
Part 7: Secondary Legal Sources:
Legal Periodical Indexes
How to access the content of
legal periodicals by topic
By using a periodical index!
Two Main Legal Periodical
Indexes
LegalTrac-- Gale
Index to Legal Periodicals– HW Wilson
LegalTrac
Students, law school faculty and legal researchers will all find the
legal publications they need in LegalTrac™.
LegalTrac™ provides indexing for approximately 875 titles including
major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and
international legal journals. Each title included in LegalTrac™ is
selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory
committee of the American Association of Law Libraries.
LegalTrac™ also contains law-related articles from over 1,000
additional business and general interest titles.
http://www.gale.cengage.com/pdf/facts/legal.pdf
Index to Legal Periodicals
Relied on for over 50 years for complete coverage of
the most important English language legal
information, Index to Legal Periodicals is now
available with full text!
Indexing of over 1,025 legal journals, law reviews,
yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association
publications, university publications, and government
publications. Users will appreciate international
coverage and access to scholarly articles, symposia,
jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation,
books, book reviews, and more.
Full text of over 325 select periodicals, as far
back as 1994, many of them peer-reviewed.
Where to find these two legal
Periodical Indexes
LegalTrac---SMU Law Library, OU Law
Library
Index to Legal Periodicals—Harvard Law
Library
HOW TO FIND ARTICLES IN LEGAL
PERIODICALS HERE AT SOSU?
We don’t have a database on just the
subject of law
Our legal periodicals are scattered
among several databases
They are located on the Library webpage at:
http://www.se.edu/lib/
Then click on Electronic Resources
Academic Search Complete
 Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable
and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text
database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals,
including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In
addition to full text, this database offers indexing and
abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of
more than 13,200 publications including monographs,
reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database
features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the
majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF
format. Searchable cited references are provided for
more than 1,400 journals.
 Offers information in nearly every area of academic
study including: computer sciences, engineering,
physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts and
literature, history, and LAW.
 Over 700 law periodicals
Education Reseaech
Complete
Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for
education research. The massive file offers the world’s largest and
most complete collection of full text education journals. Topics
covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher
education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual
education, health education, and testing.
Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for
more than 1,820 journals, as well as full text for more than 900
journals, and includes full text for more than 71 books and
monographs, and for numerous education-related conference
papers.
What’s good: only 38 journals are law journals, but they are all
on education law
http://www.se.edu/lib/
JSTOR
is a not–for–profit organization
that houses back runs of many
academic journal titles and makes them
available to colleges and universities. It is,
in other words, a digital archive.
Libraries can pick from several collections
to subscribe to
Our collections have 125 law journals
How to get to JSTOR
Go to Library main page at:
http://www.se.edu/lib
Click on Electronic Resources
Link to JSTOR is on this page
OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W.
Wilson)
Provides indexed and abstracted records
Every article in this database is available
full-text
Includes US and international
professional publications, academic
journals, and trade magazines.
More than 300 titles are law periodicals
How to get to OmniFile Full Text
Mega
Go to library main page at:
http://www.se.edu/lib
Click on Electronic Resources
Scroll down page
Click on OminFile
How to get to these databases
from off campus
Click on the link to the database that you are trying to
access
If you are off campus, it will ask you for a username and
password
Your username will be:
The [first initial of your first name] + [your entire last
name] followed by the last two digits of your student ID
Your password will be your birthdate
Other instructions are on this proxy server page
http://homepages.se.edu/library/electronicresources/proxy-server/
IS THERE A WAY TO
SEARCH THESE
DATABASES HOSTED BY
DIFFERENT COMPANIES
AT THE SAME TIME?
YES!!!
YES!!!!
YES!!!!
HOW????
INTEGRATAED
SEARCHING!!!!!!!
Integrated Searching
This is a way to search multiple
databases from multiple
companies at the same time
So you can search EBSCOhost,
FirstSearch, JSTOR at the same
time
How to get to Integrated Searching
Go to the Library main page.
Click on the articles tab
Integrated Searching databases
ABI/INFORM
Literature Resource Cent
.
Academic Search Complete
MasterFile Premier
Am Chem Soc Pubs
BioOne
Business Source Complete
Comm and Mass Media Comp
Computers and Applied Sci
CQ Researcher
E-Book Collection
Education Research Complete
ERIC
Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia
GreenFile
Health Source Consumer
Health Source Nursing
JSTOR
Library, Info Sci and Tech Abs
Military & Government Collection
MLA Directory of Periodicals
MLA International Bibliography
Newspaper Source Plus
OmniFile FT Mega
Professional Development Collect
PsycINFO
PsycARTICLES
Regional Business News
SocINDEX
Teacher Reference Center
TopicSearch
Integrated Searching
http://www.se.edu/lib
When you search in Integrated Search,
you will be searching all databases at
once by default
We are now done with Part 7!! On to Part
8!!!!