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Electronic Law Journals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

Caroline Christiansen
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This contribution to the IALL Annual Course 2001 focuses on electronic law journals, an issue that doesn't seem to arouse much interest in either the Serials Community or the Legal Community. Electronic law journals are hardly ever mentioned by the Serials Community, which seems more occupied with scientific, technical and medical (STM) electronic journals than with journals from other disciplines. Electronic law journals don't attract many comments from the Legal Community either. There has been in the past few years an occasional focus on the topic, but it aimed essentially at proving that electronic journals in law had no particular reasons to survive the era of electronic self-publication. As such however, the phenomenon of electronic journals is rarely addressed by the professionals of legal information.

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Research Article
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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , Summer 2002 , pp. 337 - 353
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Copyright © 2002 by the International Association of Law Libraries 

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