Jamail Center for Legal Research
Tarlton Law Library

Research Resources for Law Journal Editors

The following resources will help a journal editor verify citations and other sources discussed in legal scholarship.

LOCATING BOOKS

• TALLONS - TALLONS is the catalog for the Law Library. Use this database to find resources in the Tarlton Law Library.
• UT Net Cat – UT Net Cat is the catalog for the UT Libraries – Use this database to find library resources in the other 16 libraries on the UT Campus.
• WorldCat – WorldCat is a catalog of hundreds of libraries worldwide. Use this database to find resources not available on the UT campus.
• RLG Union Catalog – RLG Union Catalog is a catalog of major research libraries. Use this database to find books or library resources not available on UT campus.

LOCATING JOURNAL ARTICLES

TALLONS includes several databases that help locate legal articles. You can find these and a full list of our index services at http://tallons.law.utexas.edu/screens/indexes.html.

• Contents Pages from Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals - Created by the Tarlton Law Library, this database reprints the table of contents from 750 legal journals and law reviews. The database is updated daily and includes an archive for the previous three months. Use this resource to find a citation to a very recent article that may not yet be picked up by an indexing service.
• Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals - ILP indexes legal journals, law reviews and selected books from 1982 to present. You can use this to find citations to articles searching by author name, title, subject, keyword, etc. ILP includes a retro option to search for materials from 1918 to 1981.
• LegalTrac - LegalTrac indexes legal journals, law reviews, legal newspapers and legal practice journals from 1980 to present. You can use this to find citations to articles searching by author name, title, subject, keyword, etc.
• Index to Legal Periodicals and Books - The Index to Legal Periodicals is a multilingual index to articles and book reviews published worldwide. Use this resource to find citations for articles published outside of the United States.

Below are some suggestions for other databases that can be useful to journals. A complete listing of our databases is available on our research page http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/vlibrary/online/dbases.html.

• Hein-On-Line -This database provides images of articles from most major U.S. journals and law reviews. Use this database to print pdf files – photocopy-quality reproductions of articles.
• SSRN - This database facilitates the early distribution of research and scholarly literature. Use this resource to find the most current legal scholarship, including working papers, forthcoming articles approved for publication, and an electronic collection of thousands of articles available in full-text photocopy-quality pdf files.
• JSTOR - JSTOR has pdf files with photocopy-quality images of over 200 scholarly journals, including several law journals.
• United Nations Treaties Collection - This collection provides access to the United Nations Treaty Series (full text of UN treaties), the current status of the Multilateral Treaties deposited with the Secretary-General, and the full text of recently deposited multilateral treaties.

Below are some suggestions for databases for each of these disciplines related to law.

These databases are available on our research page, along with a complete listing of all of the Library's recommended research databases: http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/vlibrary/online/dbases.html. For an even wider array of useful databases, you may see the UT Library page at: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/.

• Anthropology:
  Anthropology Plus – Provides worldwide indexing of articles in the fields of anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.
  
  
• Business:
  Factiva – Provides full-text access to top national and international newspapers, newswires, business journals, market research reports, analysts' reports and web sites.
  Business Source Premier – Provides full-text of scholarly business journals. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business.
  
  
• Communication:
  Communication and Mass Media Complete – Provides full text of articles in areas related to communication and mass media.
  
  
• Economics:
  EconLit – Provides subject indexing and abstracts to journals, books, dissertations and working papers in economics.
  
  
• Education:
  ERIC – Provides citations and abstracts covering research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program evaluations, and curricular materials in the field of education.
  
  
• Gender Studies:
  Gender Studies Database – Provides citations, abstracts, and some full text of academic and non-academic articles in gender studies.
  
  
• History:
  Historical Abstracts – Contains citations and abstracts of literature from countries other than the United States and Canada on political, diplomatic, economic, social, cultural and intellectual history.
  
  
• Social Sciences (including Social Work):
  Sociological Abstracts – Provides citations and abstracts to articles, books, and conferences covering sociology, social work, and other social sciences.
  
  
• Social Work:
  Social Service Abstracts – Provides abstracts and indexing of international literature on social work.
  
  
• Philosophy:
  Philosopher's Index – Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields.
  
  
• Political Science:
  PAIS International – Provides abstracts chronicling global public policy and social issues.
  
  
• Psychology:
  PsychInfo – Provides abstracts and some full texts of international articles in the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines.