I've added, as one of the default openURL links from Current Law Journal Content, links to the OCLC resolver gateway. This is a gateway that allows institutions to register information about their openURL resolver together with the IP address range of their institution. Assuming then, that the user from one of those institutions clicks on the OCLC gateway link in CLJC, then OCLC will display to that user a list of local resolvers or ILL forms (according to whatever has been set up by the user's home institution) and the information about author/title/journal/page/year etc. will automatically be passed to that local service.
So, to see if your institution has established a profile with OCLC try something like this (while using a computer with an IP address from your institution) http://law.wlu.edu/library/CLJC/index.asp?date1=2005-11-15&date2=2005-11-15 click on the gateway icon next to an article entry, and see what happens. If not registered, then I believe OCLC will tell you what libraries in the U.S. hold the journal. If not registered, and your institution does have an openURL server, or perhaps an openURL compliant ILL form such as comes with the ILLiad system, then you should register with OCLC at http://worldcatlibraries.org/registry
I've also made an effort to make the cascading user preferences more orderly in CLJC. So (1) the base settings are set by default, then (2) the database over-rides them from the user's profile if the URL contains an "id=184" (with whatever number the user profile was assigned), then (3) any other parameters in the URL over-ride the user profile, and (4) any changes made by the user while using the web page have priority. Clicking 'reset' on the web page takes the user back to level 3, with the settings prior to user changes. So options set in the URL will stick throughout the session, e.g.:
http://law.wlu.edu/library/CLJC/index.asp?sortby=impact&abstracts=no
If anyone has existing CLJC links in web pages I believe they should still work, but there have been a number of changes, mostly to the openURL syntax within a URL. CLJC has by default two openURL links, one to the OCLC gateway and the other to the W&L Law School resolver. To turn off these links you could use "&jf1url=&jf2url=" as in http://law.wlu.edu/library/CLJC/index.asp?jf1url=&jf2url=
or to specify your own openURL resolver, something like:
http://law.wlu.edu/library/CLJC/index.asp?jf1url=&jf2label=Windsor&jf2url=http://sfx.scholarsportal.info/windsor
or to request a specific journal listing(such as Yale Law Journal):
http://law.wlu.edu/library/CLJC/index.asp?issue=yes&ISSN=0044-0094&jf1url=&jf2url=
A little while back (see http://bloggery.wlu.edu/lawrevs/archives/000573.html) I gave some cites per cost figures for the top 10 law reviews (as ranked by total citations). These were based on 1997-2004 cites, so here's the equivalent list for 1998-2005 cites, arranged in order of price economy:
top 10 journals by total cites & cites per $ cost
Stanford Law Review 13.81
Yale Law Journal 12.64
Columbia Law Review 11.44
Fordham Law Review 10.75
Georgetown Law Journal 9.62
U. of Chicago Law Review 9.62
Michigan Law Review 9.64
N.Y.U. Law Review 9.34
Harvard Law Review 9.18
Virginia Law Review 8.6
Despite being priced at roughly twice as much as the other journals, Harvard Law Review is not outrageously priced. Stanford and Yale continue to be bargains.
To see how the cites/cost figures are different for less cited journals I arbitrarily selected the general law reviews ranked 50-59th by total cites, and they are as follows. As you would expect, they offer less value for money. In order to do as well on this value index as the higher ranked journals these journals would need to offer their subscription at around $16 per annum as opposed to their present range of $26 to $40.
Hofstra Law Review 5.31
Indiana Law Review 5.13
Florida Law Review 4.87
Florida St. U. Law Review 4.43
Georgia Law Review 4.43
Alabama Law Review 4.09
Loyola of L.A. Law Review 3.85
Brigham Young U. Law Review 3.72
SMU Law Review 3.6
Arizona St. Law Journal 3.33
TITLE CHANGE: Minnesota Journal of Global Trade ( -v15 (2005)) to Minnesota Journal of International Law (v15 2006-)
REMOVED TITLES FROM LIST: Global International Courts Review (1998- ) and, Global Journal on Human Rights Law (no citations and difficulty contacting publisher); Communications and the Law (publication suspended with vol. 25 Number 3 (2003))
NEW TITLE: Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2006- )(published by Oxford U.P.)
CHANGED FORMAT: Rutgers Journal of Law and Urban Policy (2003- ) changed to mixed format so no longer listed as exclusively an online journal
NEW TITLE: The Journal of Business and Securities Law (2005- )[online] (pub. by Mich. State)
CEASED: Capital Defense Journal
In the inaugural issue, Volume 1, Number 1, (March 2005) of the Journal of Competition Law & Economics (published by Oxford University Press) the Editors-in-Chief in their introduction to the issue say that: "the JCLE is a peer-edited and peer-reviewed journal that will avoid the burdensome requests that student-edited law reviews often impose on authors. We do not encourage authors to submit excessively long and heavily footnoted pieces. Submission will be judged on their intrinsic intellectual merit, rather than on their length and the amount of bibliographic information they provide." I think that it's interesting when journal's establish as part of their niche their difference from law reviews. There's no doubt that, at present, student edited law reviews predominate at the top of the academic article food chain, but then the dinosaurs too were for a time at the top of their food chain.
The ranking list of law reviews at http://law.wlu.edu/library/mostcited/ has been updated. The default ranking has been changed to that of "impact factor" (citations to a journal divided by the number of articles the journal published) - although it's easy to criticize the methodology and philosophy of impact factors I'm inclined to think that it gives a fairer ranking of journals than looking at total citations.
Top 10 journals based on impact factor are:
1 Yale Law Journal 12.1
2 Columbia Law Review 11.5
3 Supreme Court Review 11.4
4 New York University Law Review 11.3
5 Cornell Law Review 11.2
5 Stanford Law Review 11.2
7 Virginia Law Review 10.9
8 Harvard Law Review 10.3
9 California Law Review 9.6
10 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 9.5