What’s New with the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP)

By Marci Hoffman, Associate Director, Berkeley Law Library and General Editor of IFLP

IFLP is a critical research tool that allows you to provide your researchers with articles covering a broad range of international, national, and comparative law topics. Over the past few years, we have been working on several projects to improve the Index. I am happy to report on the following:

• IFLP Alerts: curate your own customized email of new articles added to the Index and receive the alert monthly in your email. Your students, faculty, lawyers, and staff are all welcome to create their own customized alerts. See this quick video – How to Set Up IFLP Alerts.
• Monthly updates to the database. In the old days, we updated the content quarterly.  We now update the database monthly, so you have access to new journal literature in a timelier manner. 
• More subject headings. Yes, we still use them and now we use more of them. This will provide researchers will better access to relevant articles when searching the database by subject or keyword.
• Direct links to more full text articles (more than 85,000 links, in fact).
• ISSN and OpenURL linking makes accessing articles quicker and easier.

In July, some of our FCIL colleagues will begin their work as members of this year’s advisory board: Aamir Abdullah, Melissa Abernathy, Jennifer Allison, Charles Bjork, and Mariana Newman. I look forward to working with these folks, our international team of indexers, Berkeley Law staff, and HeinOnline to continue to improve this important research tool. 

Going to the AALL annual meeting? Drop by the Hein booth for information on IFLP Alerts and pick up a useful give-away (it won’t take up any luggage space but is useful for your travels). Don’t forget that subscribing to IFLP also supports AALL!