Current Law Journal Content is indexing the tables of contents of over
1,400 law journals. Around half of its TOC coverage is from electronic
sources, and the other half from scans of paper copy (the backbone of
which is supplied in OCR'd text by the University of Texas Tarlton Law
Library). This is by way of a reminder that if you have access to
journal contents pages that we have trouble getting we'd really
appreciate any ongoing assistance. There's a list of journals that we
either don't receive or don't regularly receive at
http://lawlib.wlu.edu/CLJC/index.aspx?needed=yes
Coverage is gradually being pushed back to the year 2000 for all
journals. Most of the U.S. general law reviews have been done back to
2000, but on our zero budget the other thousand or so journals will
likely take about 3 years to add. So, if anyone would like to help, we'd
need you to pick a journal at http://lawlib.wlu.edu/CLJC and convert to
proof-read text the tables of contents of issues from 2000 to whenever
CLJC starts indexing. To do this you'd either need a scanner and OCR
software, or else you'd pick a journal that you have access to
electronic TOCs and copy/paste them into a file. In either case the text
file would ideally have multiple issues in it, each issue being preceded
by 2 lines, the name of the journal and the Vol/Iss/Date citation of the
issue. Let me know if you intend to do this, in the remote chance that
more than one person wants to help with the same journal.
Thanks
John Doyle
Washington & Lee Law School
doylej@wlu.edu
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