The Library maintains subscriptions to over 750 legal periodicals.
Legal periodicals include law reviews, bar journals, legal newspapers and legal newsletters. In the United States, law reviews (or law journals) are the most common form of legal periodical, and are typically produced by law schools. Articles within law reviews tend to be lengthy and academic, taking an in-depth look at a particular legal issue. Law professors write the majority of law review articles. The Library subscribes to every law review produced by an ABA-accredited law school in the United States.
Access to legal periodicals is provided through legal periodical indexes. There are two main indexes to law review articles:(1) the Index to Legal Periodicals, and (2) the Current Law Index.In addition to online availability through TALLONS, print versions of each index are available in the Library reference stacks. It is usually more effective to search the online version of these indexes because the online database is cumulative, while the print indexes are not.
The Library's collections also include a large number of non-legal periodicals. As legal scholarship becomes increasingly interdisciplinary,support of the law faculty's research requires that the Library subscribes to major professional and academic journals in several non-legal fields. For example, the Library subscribes to the New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of American History, Journal of Labor Research, and Science.
Whether any particular publication is included in the Library's collection can be determined by performing a title search on TALLONS.
Popular materials
The Library's Popular Reading Room collection contains issues of a number of national and international newspapers and magazines.