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December 04, 2008
Law Electronic Resources Descriptions: Annual Review of Law and Social Science
This is the second in a series of articles designed for new reference librarians (and law students with a zeal for research) who would like to learn more about the Law Library’s Electronic Research Resources.
Resource #2: Annual Review of Law and Social Science
According to the description in the Law Electronic Resource page “Coverage begins with volume 1, 2005” and this resource is available is available via VPN for those who are not using a wired connection on campus.
The publisher’s editorial statement (available in a popup at http://www.annualreviews.org/catalog/2008/ls04.aspx ) describes this publication as “provid[ing] multidisciplinary insights into the impact of law, aggregated human behavior and interactions, analytic and normative jurisprudence, the dynamics of decision making and enforcement of authoritative rules, as well as the variations and changes in legal institutions and the management of social change by these institutions.”
When one arrives at the website, one finds a list of volumes available and a notation as to whether they’re available in full-text or abstract. This notation probably applies to other titles, as this title was full-text from volume 1 to the current volume.
In the search box, one can do a “quick search” in this publication or in all of the publisher’s publications. A quick search for the word “law” in this publication retrieved 75 documents and a list of authors by which one could limit one’s search. Repeating the “law” search with the “all series” option selected retrieved over 7000 documents, along with a list of journals and a list of authors by which one could limit one’s search. The “advanced search” option enables the users to limit by author, publication, and date, in addition to the option to search for words and phrases in a specific part of the document. The search box on the opening page also contains links that enable one to view errata, most downloaded reviews, and most cited reviews.
When one retrieves a list of documents, one has the option to view an abstract, full text, or PDF. Both versions of an article begin with the abstract, but the PDF version precedes the abstract with the keywords. The HTML version has the keywords in a box on the left side of the screen, with the option to perform a keyword search using the keywords that were assigned to the article one is reading.
This resource would be useful to someone doing interdisciplinary research.
Posted by Sarajean Petite at December 4, 2008 09:29 AM | categories: none
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