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		Introduction
		Audio Companion: Periodicals

Introduction
To be honest, periodical research is frustrating. It's not that it is difficult, it's just that each major research source has its own issues.

Researching periodicals on Westlaw is decent, but not great. If you follow the recommendations in the manual, you will find what seems like a pretty good list of periodicals. However, it is actually quite limited. There are hundreds of legal periodicals, but most are not on Westlaw or Lexis.

Lexis doesn't do much better than Westlaw. Once you arrive at the Law Review and Legal Periodical database, you aren't really given a choice of which periodical you want to search. Thus, there is really no way to know which periodicals are included in the database. In any case, at best the number is probably similar to Westlaw.

Legal Periodicals may be the one area of research in which the Law Library still has an advantage over online research sources. Any major law library will have more periodicals than you will find on Westlaw and Lexis combined. The problem with researching periodicals in the law library is that there are so many periodicals that it is impossible to look in each and every one. Not only that, the individual periodicals don't have indexes! So, how do you research them? Well, there are two tools: The Index to Legal Periodicals, and the Current Law Index. As you will see in the Law Library exercise, once you know how to use them, it isn't hard. But it's not as easy as "point-and-click!"

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Time Sheets
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