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Legal Taxonomy From Sweet & Maxwell

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2010

Mark Scott  and
Nigel Smith
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Abstract

Mark Scott and Nigel Smith provide the background to the development of Sweet & Maxwell's Legal Taxonomy before outlining its structure and explaining how it is used by Sweet & Maxwell and other Thomson Reuters companies.

Keywords

taxonomieslegal informationthesauri
Type
Cat, Class and Metadata.....Part 2
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , September 2010 , pp. 217 - 222
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2010

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Footnotes

1 Sainsbury, I.M. (1974) Legal Subject Headings for Libraries. London, ButterworthsGoogle Scholar.

2 Krieger, T. (1982) Subject Headings for the Literature of Law and International Law. 3rd ed.Littleton, RothmanGoogle Scholar.

3 Moys, E.M. (1982) Moys Classification Scheme for Law Books. 2nd ed.London, ButterworthsGoogle Scholar.

4 Smith, N. and Miskin, C. (1987) A Legal Thesaurus. Hebden Bridge, Legal Information ResourcesGoogle Scholar. Miskin, C. (2001) A Legal Thesaurus. 4th ed. (Fourth Revision). Hebden Bridge, Sweet & MaxwellGoogle Scholar.

5 Smith and Miskin. (1987) Legal Thesaurus, introduction.

6 Smith, N. (1989) Indexing Legal Journals. Law Librarian, 20(1), 1–6.Google Scholar

7 Miskin, C. (1997) A Legal Thesaurus. 3rd ed.Hebden Bridge, Legal Information ResourcesGoogle Scholar, p.ii.

8 http://2.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/online/taxonomy/ [as at 30 November 2009].