Westlaw Database Directory

Summary
Database Name: Index to Legal Periodicals

Database Identifier: ILP

Coverage
Begins with August 1981

Content Highlights:
Index to Legal Periodicals contains abstracts from journals throughout the World. Coverage begins with 1981.

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Contents
The ILP database contains documents from the Index to Legal Periodicals, which contains indices to articles that have appeared in over 500 journals from the United States, Canada, Ireland, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand. A document is an index entry prepared by the editorial staff of the H.W. Wilson Company for an article that appears in one of the journals.

Derivation
An H.W. Wilson Company product. This database is based upon the print publication Index to Legal Periodicals and includes new documents as indexing is completed.

Source(s)
Coverage includes periodicals, such as law reviews and other university publications, bar association journals, yearbooks and government publications that regularly publish legal articles of high quality and permanent reference value, indexed after July, 1981. The H.W. Wilson Company does not usually index the following:

(1) Articles of less than five ordinary pages or two folio pages in length

(2) Case Notes, Bibliographies, Biographies, and Notes of Legislation of less than two ordinary pages or one folio page in length

(3) Advertisements

(4) Letters to the Editor

(5) Departments

(6) Committee Reports

Information about ordering the print version of the Index to Legal

Periodicals can be obtained by contacting:

The H.W. Wilson Company

950 University Ave.

Bronx, NY 10452

(212) 588-8400

Searching and Fields
In this database you may choose the Terms and Connectors search method or the Natural Language search method.

With a Terms and Connectors search, you enter a query, which consists of key terms from your issue and connectors specifying the relationship between those terms. With Natural Language, you can retrieve documents by simply describing your issue in plain English.

For more information on using one of these search methods, see online Help.

Tip: To display the full text of available articles indexed in this database (or a case or U.S.C.A. section discussed in that indexed article), use your mouse or Tab key to select the marked reference (>) and press ENTER.

Tip: A list of publications indexed in the this database, and the beginning coverage dates for each, is available as a searchable document. To restrict a search to this document, include a publist field search term in your query.

Use pl("your search terms") to highlight particular periodicals in the list of publications.

Tip: To restrict a search to articles that discuss a specific case, such as Carson v. Here's Johnny Portable Toilets, Inc., 698 F.2d 831, or that discuss a specific statute, such as the Freedom of Information Act, include summary field search terms describing the document along with the word case or statute in your query.

Use su(case /s carson /s toilet /s 698) for the Carson case

Use su(statute /s freedom /s information) for the FOIA statute

Tip: Use a date restriction in your query to retrieve documents issued on a specific date or during a specific range of dates, e.g., da(aft mm/dd/yyyy & bef mm/dd/yyyy).

The abbreviations for the fields in this database are:

CITATION

Citation of the journal article indexed and a WESTLAW Citation to the indexing document itself.

TITLE

Title of the article indexed.

AUTHOR

Author(s) of the article indexed, if available.

YEAR

The publication date.

INDEX

Subject matter descriptors, if available.

PRELIM

Type of article and language in which it is published.

SUMMARY

Information that pertains to the article indexed, which may include: (1) Case (and citation); (2) Statute (and citation); (3) Title of a book or periodical article being reviewed; (4) Reviewed author; (5) Publisher; and other categories of information describing the contents of the article.

END

The name of the journal in which the indexed article was published, its International Standard Serial Number (ISSN), the page numbers of the article, and other categories of information describing the article within the publication.

PUBLIST

A listing of all publications indexed in the database by the H.W. Wilson Company.

SUBLIST

A listing of all Index Field subject matter headings used by the H.W. Wilson Company.

Legal Notices
This database is provided through an agreement between West, a Thomson business and the H.W. Wilson Company.

The Index to Legal Periodicals is proprietary and copyrighted. Copyright

(c) 2005 by the H.W. Wilson Company. All rights reserved. Except as otherwise provided by contract, the following are prohibited: copying the Index in machine-readable form, making multiple printouts of the Index, making copies of Index printouts and other uses of the Index and Index printouts inconsistent with United States copyright law. H.W. Wilson makes no warranties as to the Index, express or implied, including any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, and shall not be liable for consequential or incidental damages or lost profits or other claims related to the Index or its use.

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