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Summary
Database Name: Legal Resource Index (Electronic Companion to Current Law Index)

Database Identifier: LRI

Coverage
Begins with 1980

Content Highlights:
Legal Resources Index contains abstracts from journals throughout the World. Coverage begins with 1980.

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Contents
The LRI database contains documents from the Legal Resource Index, which contains cover-to-cover indices to articles that have appeared in over 850 journals from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand and Australia. A document is an index entry prepared by the editorial staff of Information Access Company for an article that appears in one of the journals.

Derivation
An Information Access Company (IAC) product. The Legal Resource Index is based upon the print publication Current Law Index and includes new documents as indexing is completed.

Source(s)
Coverage includes legal periodicals, such as law reviews, bar association journals and legal newspapers, as well as selected legal articles from newspapers and periodicals that generally cover subjects other than law, indexed after December, 1979. The Information Access Company does not usually index brief personnel notes and other ephemera. The journal selection of the Legal Resource Index has been approved by the American Association of Law Libraries.

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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:

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

TITITLETitle of the article indexed.

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

YEYEARThe publication date and the date, if any, that Information Access Company revised the document.

ININDEXSubject matter descriptors, if available.

PRPRELIMType of article.

DIDIGESTDescriptive abstract of the article indexed, if available.

SU SUMMARYInformation that pertains to the article indexed, which may include: (1) Case (and citation); (2) Statute (and citation); (3) Biographee; (4) Jurisdiction; (5) Geographic Code; (6) Named Person; (7) SIC Code and Description; (8) Reviewed Author; (9) Review Grade; (10) Publisher; and other categories of information describing the contents of the article.


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