Daniel Sokol reports that Oxford University Press has pulled its journals from the Westlaw database, leaving them available primarily on Lexis-Nexis. I’m sorry to hear that. Apart from the citation count issue Daniel raises, I’m saddened because too few American legal scholars read work from non-US legal journals, and high-end subject matter journals, as it is. For those of us who stick mostly with WL, this is sad news and we’ll have to try to route around. A good reminder that research is only as good as the database you use and that relying only on a single database for research can be problematic.
Posted by Paul Horwitz on August 10, 2012 at 10:07 AM
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is there anything that’s not available on google scholar?
Posted by: ctr | Aug 11, 2012 3:13:22 PM
have they only pulled them prospectively? it looks like some back issues of oup journals (eg the journal of legal analysis) previously available on westlaw still are.
Posted by: anonprof | Aug 10, 2012 1:41:27 PM
have they only pulled them prospectively? it looks like some back issues of oup journals (eg the journal of legal analysis) previously available on westlaw still are.
Posted by: anonprof | Aug 10, 2012 1:41:25 PM