New York, New York, August 26th, 2004
For the first time, information on jurisprudence back to the end of the First World War is now easily searchable online, with H.W. Wilson's new Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective 1918-1981. This space-saving online equivalent to dozens of ILP print annuals makes more than 60 years of periodicals research readily available for educators, students, law professionals and others.

Based on the classic print reference Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective indexes articles cover to cover from over 750 noted publications from the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. The database features some 540,000 records, including book reviews and case citations. In addition to periodicals, annual surveys of the laws of a jurisdiction, annual surveys of the federal courts, yearbooks, and annual reviews of the work in a given field or topic are also indexed.

Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective also makes acquiring cited articles easy. With WilsonWeb, you get seamless links to full-text articles on your library's OpenURL compliant databases, including HeinOnline—at no additional charge. Just click the WilsonLink icon for an automatic search of the full-text databases to which your library subscribes.

In creating this database, Wilson editors did far more than simply cast data from Index to Legal Periodicals & Books into electronic format. Decades of data from the print annuals presented the major task of reconciling subject terms that changed over the years, and seeing that personal and corporate names were standardized, to ensure retrieval of all records on a given subject.

The database's updated subject headings make finding information easy, using contemporary terms. Original subject headings have been retained as "Historical Subjects"—preserving the full value of the data as a historical source, and providing insight into the way issues of the day were framed. Both current and historical headings are searchable.

Fields in each record allow searching by court case (over 56,000 cases), as well as the standard WilsonWeb bibliographic fields (journal, author, subject, keyword, document type, publisher, country of publication, and others).

Like all the WilsonWeb databases, Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective features a holdings indicator that links to the library's OPAC—letting researchers know if they'll find cited articles on the shelves. In addition, document-delivery links make ordering the actual articles easy. Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective can also be searched simultaneously with the contemporary periodicals database Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text, for more than 80 years of law research at a keystroke.

Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective is available exclusively on WilsonWeb. For more information, visit www.hwwilson.com.

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