Terminology, codes & standards

2118 Bieber's dictionary of legal abbreviations: a reference guide for attorneys, legal secretaries, paralegals and law students

M.M. Prince, comp. 5th edn, Hein, 2001. $55. ISBN 1575884089.

Two parts: alphabetical list of abbreviations followed by publication title list, allowing a search from abbreviation to title and vice-versa. Predominantly, though not exclusively, US coverage of publications, legal phrases and law acronyms. Additional entries restricted to common law jurisdictions.

2119 Cardiff index to legal abbreviations

www.legalabbrevs.cardiff.ac.uk/

Award-winning searchable index to over 17,000 abbreviations used to describe over 10,000 publications (mainly law reports and journals) drawn from over 290 jurisdictions across the world. Searches can be carried out from abbreviation to title and vice-versa. Links through the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) in many entries to the catalogues of more than 25 university libraries based in the UK and New Zealand.

2120 Index to legal citations and abbreviations

D. Raistrick, ed. 2nd rev. edn, Bowker, 1993, 400pp. £87. ISBN 185739061X.

Alphabetical list of more than 25,000 abbreviations for publications, personalities within the legal system and acronyms for organizations drawn mainly from the UK, Ireland, the Commonwealth and USA, but also European countries, Africa, Asia and South America. A classic work still of great value but obviously lacking the explosion in abbreviations resulting from conventional and web publishing since the early 1990s.

2121 Noble's revised international guide to the law reports

S. Noble, comp. 2nd edn, Nicol Island Publishing, 2002, 567pp. ISBN 0969946767.

Alphabetical list of abbreviations of law reports drawn only from common and civil law jurisdictions. Each entry provides details of the original tile of the publication, jurisdiction, years of cases reported and number of volumes published. Also lists of free websites carrying case law.

Dictionaries, thesauri, classifications

2122 Moys classification and thesaurus for legal materials

E.M. Moys 4th edn, K.G. Saur, 2001, 552pp. $174. ISBN 3598115024.

Two-part work: the only subject classification specifically designed for use in law libraries and used across the world; second part is an index–thesaurus to the terms employed in the classification. Classification designed for use in a library already using either the Dewey Decimal System or the Library of Congress classification for the rest of its books. A new edition is under consideration.