Fred-
We are kicking around the same issue here -- no resolution yet. It's the library's position (i.e., mine really as the head of our ILL operation) that it makes no sense for us to have to track down copies-from-originals when the authors did not use them (a process that is increasing in complexity as consolidators expand their databases by adding more and more obscure, regional, local serials). And it's clear that authors are NOT using the originals.
Our journal/review editors are at this point resisting making a change that would permit them to verify the citation/source actually used.
I've not tried to compile the statistics, but I suspect a shockingly large percentage of our annual newspaper requests are for the cite-checking of articles whose authors never bothered to track down the originals underling the database (most frequently Lexis-Nexis).
Stanley
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Stanley Conrad, JD/MLS
Reference/Special Collections Librarian
Rittenberg Law Library
St. John's University School of Law
8000 Utopia Parkway
Jamaica, NY 11439
718-990-2012
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conrads@stjohns.edu
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From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu]On
Behalf Of Fred Shapiro
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:35 AM
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Subject: Academic Library Rules on Newspaper ILL
Our library is contemplating whether we should have a rule against student
journals using interlibrary loan to obtain original copies of newspapers
for cite-checking (as opposed to using Nexis like the author of the
article undoubtedly did). I would welcome information about other law
school libraries that have adopted such a rule.
Fred Shapiro
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Access and Lecturer in Legal Research Yale University Press,
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