The Law and Society Review at the University of California, Santa Barbara has changed its name as of 2004 to Law and Society Journal at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The journal is written by undergraduates at UCSB and Blackwell Publishing suggested the name change to minimize confusion with their journal, Law and Society Review.
Added University of Baltimore Law Forum (not a new journal) to http://law.wlu.edu/library/research/lawrevs/mostcited.asp.
The law journal feeds information at http://law.wlu.edu/library/feeds/ now stands at just over 400 law journals. This has been achieved, not by any remarkable response from law journal publishers, but by hosting many of these on a server at Washington and Lee Law School. The feeds for approximately 250 of these journals have been created through the kindness of the University of Texas Tarlton Law Library, by permitting the reformatting from text to XML of their scanned contents pages at http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/tallons/content_search.html.
The contents pages available at the Tarlton Law Library's site for U.S. law journals for November-December 2004 and though January 24, 2005, have been converted. The non-U.S. law journals at the Tarlton Law Library's site will be added shortly. Just guessing, but I'd imagine that the feed total would probably increase to around 700 journals in the next couple of months.
I hope that law journal publishers will be willing to establish and control their own feeds, and will include abstracts (none of the feeds currently available from scanned contents pages have any abstracts, although potentially one of the advantages of reading contents pages via a feed-reader would be in viewing article abstracts).
John Doyle
Washington and Lee Law School
The Mexican Law Review (2004-)[online] has been added to the list of law journals at http://law.wlu.edu/library/research/lawrevs/mostcited.asp.
The Mexican Law Review translates previously published Spanish language work into English.
This is the 1,000th journal on the list, so a bit of a milestone (or perhaps that should be a kilometerstone).
To make it relatively easy to create a feed for a journal I've put up a web page that converts text into RSS. This allows someone to scan or type the author/title entries from a journal issue, copy/paste the information to the web page and have it create the appropriate RSS format. That RSS code just needs to be saved to a file on a web server and a journal feed is created. The web page is http://law.wlu.edu/library/feeds/text2rss.asp.
I've put up a list of law journal (current issue) tables-of-contents feeds at http://law.wlu.edu/library/feeds/lawjournals.opml This file needs to be imported into feed reader software to enable users to utitilze the tables-of-contents. Some basic instructions on installing a feed reader, and importing the list, are at http://law.wlu.edu/library/feeds/
The main advantage to reading tables-of-contents information via a feed reader is that the software takes care of which journals have been looked at and will automatically download any new issues as they become available. Other advantages include the ability to search for words in the article titles of all the journals, the display of article abstracts (if available at the publisher's site), and possibly a link to the full-text if licensing permits.
With its first issue of vol.35 (2004) the, International Review of Industrial Property and Copyright Law, changed its name to the, International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law.
The Canadian Bar Review has been added to the list of journals at http://law.wlu.edu/library/research/lawrevs/mostcited.asp (this is not a new journal, just a newly added one).