The FLAGO solution is I heel and toe down to FSU law school or the FSCT law
library and photocopy the article.
Good things:
Gets me out of the office and I get to talk law library without a back
story.
Bad things:
It's 95-100 F out there.
Tom Baxter
Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.
Reference Librarian
Office of the Attorney General of Florida
PL-01 The Capitol
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-9752
850-414-3376
FAX 850-921-5784
Tom.Baxter@MyFloridaLegal.com
Rick.McKinney@frb
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08/22/2007 12:49 Subject
PM Q: Online law reviews without
tables/graphs
A patron of ours, who had printed out a law review article from Lexis with
the tables missing and the phrase [SEE TABLE IN ORIGINAL] interspersed in
the text, requested the full article. We found that same article on Westlaw
with the tables. After a little checking it appears that most law review
articles on Lexis do have tabular information (without the boxes), but
graphs and equations are usually missing in both Lexis and Westlaw with the
phrases on Lexis saying [SEE FIGURE IN ORIGINAL] or [SEE EQUATION IN
ORIGINAL] while Westlaw says a generic TABULAR OR GRAPHIC MATERIAL SET
FORTH AT THIS POINT IS NOT DISPLAYABLE. Has anyone else found this to be a
problem and how do you handle it? In this digital research age it would
seem that this is a significant gap in the Lexis and Westlaw claims of
being all comprehensive (Heinonline's law review articles in PDF do not
have the same sort of problem, but they may be less searchable).
Rick McKinney
Assistant Law Librarian
Federal Reserve Board Law Library
Washington, DC 20551
rick.mckinney@frb.gov
Please note that Florida has a broad public records law, and that all
correspondence to me via email may be subject to disclosure.
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