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This retrospective database indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Annual surveys of the laws of a jurisdiction, annual surveys of the federal courts, yearbooks, annual institutes, and annual reviews of the work in a given field or on a given topic will also be covered.

  • This retrospective database contains the indexing from 38 printed cumulations.

  • Provides some 540,000 records, including book reviews and case citations.

  • Includes contents notes: for special issues and symposia, each individual article and author are identified.

  • Updated subject headings make finding information easy, using contemporary terms. Obsolete or confusing terms have been revised to reflect current usage.

  • Original subject headings are also shown, reflecting the way the issues of the day were framed. See: Historic and Contemporary Subject Headings.

  • Personal names used as subjects are standardized to ensure retrieval of all records about an individual.

  • WilsonLink SFX-powered technology links to full text in any OpenURL compatible database in your library—including Hein Online.

  • Search simultaneously with Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text for seamless power searching of nearly 100 years of legal history.

  • Wilson quality indexing—done by professionals who are members of the bar—guarantees user satisfaction with results.

  • Library holdings indicator linked to your OPAC lets users know if they’ll find cited articles on your shelves.

  • Acquire articles easily through links built right into the database.

  • Available exclusively on WilsonWeb.

 

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Covers a wide range of specialties:

Administrative Law • Antitrust Law • Banking • Business Law • Constitutional Law • Criminal Law • Domestic Relations • Energy & Natural Resources • Environmental Protection • Estate Planning • Family Law • Food, Drug & Cosmetic Law • Insurance Law • Internet & Information Science Law • Intellectual Property Law • International Law • Labor Law • Landlord/Tenant Law • Legal Librarianship • Medicine & Health Care • Maritime Law • Minorities • Multinational Corporations • Negligence • Non-Profit Corporations • Occupational Health & Safety • Patent & Trademark • Politics • Probate • Product Liability • Real Property • Securities • Sports & Entertainment Law • Tax Law • Trade Regulation

 

Updated Plus Original Subject Headings—All Searchable


Historical Heading

 Contemporary Heading

Abbatoirs Slaughterhouses
Aiders and abettors Accomplices
Armament; Fire arms; Gunsmiths; Munitions Weapons
Bastards Illegitimacy
Bills and notes; Tender; Bills of exchange Negotiable instruments
Confusion of goods Negligent misrepresentation
Cooperative medicine National health insurance
Freedom of the seas Sovereignty
Interpretation and construction Statutory interpretation
Levees and flood control Water and watercourses
Master and servant Employer and employee
Medical care Health care industry
Mental defectives Incompetents
Miscegenation Interracial marriage
Mobs Crowds
Moneylenders Loans
Morphinism; Opium Narcotics
Ne exeat, Writ of Ne exeat regno
Old age insurance Social Security
Refuse Disposal Solid waste management
Roman or civil law Roman law
Secrets National security
Self-help Self-defense
Silence Self-incrimination
Stare decisis Precedents
Street trades Street vendors
Surety for good behavior Surety of the peace

And many more . . .

 

 

 Also Available

 

Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text 
This database offers Wilson quality indexing of nearly 1,000 law journals with full text of nearly 200, as far back as 1994, plus indexing of some 1,400 monographs per year. Users will appreciate international coverage and access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, and more.

  • Available exclusively on WilsonWeb; updated daily.

Index to Legal Periodicals & Books
This database presents the same indexing offered in Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text, but without links to full text articles. The same journals are covered.

  • Updated monthly on WilsonWeb, monthly on WilsonDisc.

  • Also available in print.

"A useful, well-recognized reference source." 
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Covers a wide range of specialties:

Administrative Law • Antitrust Law • Banking • Business Law • Constitutional Law • Criminal Law • Domestic Relations • Energy & Natural Resources • Environmental Protection • Estate Planning • Family Law • Food, Drug & Cosmetic Law • Insurance Law • Internet & Information Science Law • Intellectual Property Law • International Law • Labor Law • Landlord/Tenant Law • Legal Librarianship • Medicine & Health Care • Maritime Law • Minorities • Multinational Corporations • Negligence • Non-Profit Corporations • Occupational Health & Safety • Patent & Trademark • Politics • Probate • Product Liability • Real Property • Securities • Sports & Entertainment Law • Tax Law • Trade Regulation
 

 

Ten Years of Coverage Added

 

With the addition of 10 more years of indexing, users can now search Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective for articles as far back as 1908.

 

Praise for Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective
"Fills a huge gap in online legal research...very important database."
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"Important and useful...an indispensable research tool."
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