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Frank G. Houdek (Chair)
Southern Illinois University Law Library
houdek@siu.edu
Best Practices Subcommittee
Elizabeth A. Edinger (Subcommittee Chair)
University of California School of Law Library
eedinger@mail.law.berkeley.edu
Michael J. Bushbaum
Christine Graesser
Marian F. Parker
Betty Lynn Roeske
Susan Skyzinski
The CRIV Sheet
Richard Humphrey, Editor (Ex Officio)
Indiana University School of Law Library
rhumphre@iupui.edu
Michelle Wu, Co-Editor (Ex Officio)
George Washington University
mwu@burns.nlc.gwu.edu
CRIVPage
Janeen M. Heath, CRIV Webmaster (Ex Officio)
Baker & McKenzie
janeen.m.heath@bakernet.com
CRIV Tools Subcommittee
Rosanne Krikorian (Subcommittee Chair)
Whittier Law School Library
rkrikorian@law.whittier.edu
Lori A. Hedstrom
Marian F. Parker
Contents
Editor’s Corner 2
LEXIS Publishing Librarian Panel Meeting Overview 3
Standing Orders vs. Subscriptions: West 4
Getting the Edition You Meant to Order 5
Law Library Cost-Saving Tips 5
A Legal Publishers’ List: Corporate
Affiliations of Legal Publishers 8
AcqWeb—A Text-only Overview 11
Janet Reinke
Elizabeth Rhodes
Betty Lynn Roeske
Mediation Subcommittee
Christine Graesser (Subcommittee Chair)
Brown Rudnick Freed and Gesmer
cgraesser@brfg.com
Elizabeth A. Edinger
Rosanne Krikorian
Carl Mitchell
Frosty Owen
Lorna Tang
Educational Programming
Subcommittee
Michael J. Bushbaum (Subcommittee Chair)
Valparaiso University School of Law Library
mike.bushbaum@valpo.edu
Elizabeth A. Edinger
Christine Graesser
Lori A. Hedstrom
Susan Skyzinski
FTC Guides Revision Subcommittee
Christine Graesser
Joe K. Stephens
New Product Award
Subcommittee
Frosty Owen (Subcommittee Chair)
Hunton & Williams
fowen@hunton.com
Carl Mitchell
Joe K. Stephens
Lorna Tang
Site Visits Subcommittee
Elizabeth Rhodes (Subcommittee Chair)
University of Baltimore Library
erhodes@ubmail.ubalt.edu
Frosty Owen
Janet L. Reinke
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This installment of The CRIV Sheet reflects a variety of activities
in which Committee members are involved. While members of
the CRIV participate in regular Committee meetings annually
and also attend periodic vendor site visits, much of the work
that we do on an ongoing basis receives little publicity.
Many of us have assumed the role of local trouble-shooters,
becoming the contact persons for any and all vendor complaint
issues that arise within our geographic regions. And, although
we each have assigned duties within the Committee, the lines
between specific assignment areas often become blurred when
colleagues across the country view each of us as their personal
CRIV representative. Thankfully, the cooperative spirit within
our Committee allows us to respond to the issues close at hand,
as well as those across the country. The efficiency with which
electronic communication can be accomplished further enhances
our ability to respond, if only by forwarding an urgent e-mail
message to the appropriate member or subcommittee.
Beyond their usual CRIV duties, Betty Roeske and Lorna Tang have
taken on extra responsibilities as members of the newly formed
LEXIS Publishing Librarian Panel. In this issue, they provide us with
a detailed report of this panel’s recent initial meeting. Readers will
be interested in many of the issues discussed by this group and the
objectives that LEXIS hopes to achieve.
Along with her duties as chair of the Mediation Subcommittee,
Chris Graesser finds time to apply her complaint resolution
experience to the development of better strategies for dealing
with vendor issues. She gives us two articles in this issue, one
dealing with a recent reported complaint and the other dealing
with ways of better assuring the receipt of desired publications.
In addition to the dedicated work of Committee members, many
accomplishments in the dissemination of information on legal
publisher issues stem from the gracious participation of non-CRIV-
member law librarians. We have three of these individuals to
thank specifically for contributions to this issue of The CRIV Sheet.
Ken Svengalis, a former CRIV participant, and a well-known
advocate of resolving legal publishing issues, furnishes us with a
detailed list of cost-cutting tips. Many of Ken’s suggestions are
the direct result of his constant vigilance in monitoring the
effect that publisher practices have on our day-to-day duties as
law librarians.
We also have a current update of the legal publishing “Who
Owns Whom” list, courtesy of Rob Richards. Rob is quick to
add that, although he started this list, its timeliness is due to
constant updating by many interested law librarians who
keep a watchful eye on current developments within the legal
publishing industry.
The final entry in this issue is a text-only overview of the
AcqWeb Web site, edited by Anna Belle Leiserson. AcqWeb is
also the product of much cooperation among library acquisitions
personnel across the country. Both Rob’s and Anna Belle’s lists
are accessible from the CRIVPage Web site and we have included
them here in an effort to inform our members of these valuable
tools for keeping up-to-date with contact information for
publishers and other legal information vendors. Although both
these print lists are merely informative in this format, accessing
them online will provide a multitude of hypertext links for quick
connection to needed resource information.
We hope readers will find the articles herein informative and
valuable. We also hope that our members will continue to assist
the CRIV in its ongoing efforts. One way of assisting us is to
provide helpful suggestions for our publisher site visits. We will
be visiting Aspen Publishers in mid-March and would greatly
appreciate the reporting of specific issues or problems relating
to Aspen’s service. Comments or suggestions may be posted
to the CRIVPage or e-mailed to Frosty Owen, CRIV Site Visit
Subcommittee Chair (fowen@hunton.com). As always,
Happy Reading!
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Editor’s CornerRichard Humphrey
Indiana University
School of Law
Indianapolis, Indiana
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LEXIS Publishing Librarian Panel
Meeting Overview
Betty Roeske
Katten Muchin Zavis
Chicago, Illinois
Lorna Tang
University of Chicago
D’Angelo Law Library
Chicago, Illinois
As announced at the AALL Annual Meeting and in a CRIVGram
posted in August, the LEXIS Publishing family of companies has
formed a Librarian Panel to work with the company regarding
specifics on various aspects of decision making, particularly
focusing on technical services. LEXIS Publishing asked the
assistance of the AALL Committee on Relations with Information
Vendors to select the members of the Librarian Panel. The scope
and responsibilities of the Librarian Panel include:
• discussing product packaging issues and the impact on
the librarian community;
• acting as a sounding board for librarian communications
in general;
• discussing invoice integration and the impact on the
librarian community; and,
• discussing customer service integration and the impact
on the librarian community.
The members of the Librarian Panel include:
• Cynthia Aninao, Acquisitions Librarian, University of
Cincinnati Law Library
• Melody Lembke, Technical Services Librarian,
Los Angeles County Law Library
• Mary McKee, Associate Law Librarian for Technical
Services, Fordham Law School Library
• Anne Morrison, Assistant Law Librarian,
Prince George’s County Law Library
• Anne Myers, Head of Technical Services,
Boston University Law Library
• Betty Roeske, Technical Services Librarian,
Katten Muchin Zavis
• Lorna Tang, Associate Law Librarian for Technical
Services, University of Chicago D’Angelo Law Library.
The Librarian Panel met in Dayton, Ohio, October 19 and 20,
1999, with various members of the LEXIS Publishing companies.
The discussion focused on product packaging, librarian
communications, and the integration of invoicing and customer
service for the print and CD-ROM publications. All participants
in the meeting recognize that individual customers may have
different needs and it will be difficult for LEXIS Publishing to
tailor communications and activities to meet the requirements
of each customer.
The discussion focused on the general needs of LEXIS Publishing
customers who have a librarian on staff. The Panel Members
provided input on activities that impact the work of Technical
Services departments. Their feedback was based on concerns and
issues that have plagued other publisher alignments. The various
members of the LEXIS Publishing teams who met with the Panel
Members will consider this feedback when making decisions.
Product Packaging
The members of the LEXIS Publishing Product Packaging Team
presented information on general rules for information to be
included on spines, front covers, title pages, and copyright
pages. In general, the Panel Members approved the current
plans. Panel Members also provided feedback on several
outstanding issues. The Panel Members also suggested that a
letter be sent to librarian customers outlining the changes
that will take place as a result of the new LEXIS Publishing
brand. This letter is currently under development.
Librarian Communications
This discussion focused on the types of information that should
be made available to customers and the preferred formats.
Based on these suggestions, the LEXIS Publishing team is looking
into the development of Technical Services announcements to be
made through both hard copy mailings and listserv formats. In
addition, based on these recommendations, LEXIS Publishing is
looking into providing additional Web-based information.
Invoice Integration
Members of the Invoice Integration team described the plans for
the next 18 months and the Panel Members provided feedback.
This integration involves only the print and CD-ROM publications
and will not include the LEXIS-NEXIS online services. Panel
members provided feedback on sample invoices and statements.
Customer Service Integration
Members of the Customer Service Integration Team described the
plans for the next 18 months and the Panel Members provided
feedback. This integration involves only the print and CD-ROM
publications and will not include the LEXIS-NEXIS online services.
Panel Members provided requirements for an “ideal” customer
service department.
Panel Members as well as the members of the LEXIS Publishing
companies found the meeting informative and insightful.
The Librarian Panel will continue its work to assist the LEXIS
Publishing team in decision making.
For additional information, please contact Cindy Spohr, Director,
LEXIS Publishing Librarian Relations Group (cindy.spohr@lexis-
nexis.com or 219/436-1944).
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Catherine Dillon of Jackson Lewis in New York City sent the
CRIV the following comments about West’s billing practices.
The CRIV glossary of publishing terms defines “Standing
Order” but does not define “Subscription.” To me the
difference in these two terms is how the vendor bills
for them:
Standing Order: Publisher sends all publications
of a specified title or subject. Each shipment is
paid for individually.
Subscription: a Standing Order that is pre-paid
for a specified period of time—e.g., 52 weeks.
Each year my firm processes hundreds of invoices—
while West calls them “Shipment Notices” or “Packing
Slips,” they are actually invoices—for the Federal
Reporter, Federal Supplement, and our two or three
regional reporters. Our monthly West book statements are
over 30 pages long. I’m sure I’m not alone in finding this
a complete waste of time, and consequently a waste of
money in staff time expended. West is wasting our money,
too, by processing large sums of money in $50 increments.
West sells exactly what BNA and CCH sell in their topical
reporters: full text of cases with editorial treatment and
weekly Advance Sheet updates. Yet BNA and CCH can
charge you by the year. West has told me its system
cannot bill in this manner, but in fact it can; the Supreme
Court Reporter is billed on an annual basis; so are the
CD-ROM versions of the Federal Reporter and the Federal
Supplement. And West can ship items without listing each
one on the monthly statement—the Advance Sheets are
an example of how this is done.
Other publishers routinely offer discounts for increased
prepayment terms, because prepayment reduces their
own administrative costs. The longer the prepayment
period, the deeper the discount. Why doesn’t West do
the same for its customers?
Why would West continue to maintain its archaic method
of bookkeeping? Some answers it has given me are “That’s
the way we always did it”; “That’s the way our customers
want it”; “Most of our customers are solo practitioners
who can afford to pay for only one volume at a time”; and
“We have to charge by the volume because the Post Office
might raise its rates.” BNA and CCH manage to keep the
number of financial transactions to a minimum, thereby
reducing the customer’s burden and showing us that they
can help keep subscription costs down. Can we collectively
prevail on West to reduce the burdens it imposes on us?
We are the ones who must pay for this wastefulness. And
the wastefulness occurs on both ends of the transaction but
we pay for it on West’s end and our own. Is the underlying
problem that annual pricing would keep West from raising
prices several times each year?
West should be making every effort to reduce the number
of financial transactions. When Lawyers Co-op published
USCS, a subscriber could request and receive a single
annual charge for all items issued under that title: pocket
parts, revised volumes, etc. West could do this with USCA
and other annotated statutes, as well as with digests.
West could further reduce paperwork and financial
transactions if it established a uniform policy of
incorporating the cost of all Advance Sheets with the
corresponding bound volumes, instead of its current
patchwork method, whereby the Federal Reporter cost
includes Advance Sheets, but Federal Rules Decisions does
not; the California Reporter cost includes Advance Sheets,
but Massachusetts Decisions does not.
BNA and CCH permit the customer to define the
subscription period, which may be necessary to maintain
a common expiration date for multiple copies of the same
subscription. Yet in the few “subscriptions” West offers, it
repeatedly says it must first run the subscription for one
year before modifying the expiration date—which gives
the subscriber extra paperwork now and again one year
later. West’s reason for this? “It has to do with commissions
and revenue.” BNA and CCH deal with commissions and
revenue, too. However, they do not burden the customer
with what should be a “back office” issue to the vendor.
Commissions and revenue should be handled internally
without any negative impact on the customer.
Thanks for your comments, Catherine. The CRIV plans to conduct
a law-lib survey to gauge librarians’ interest in the option of
annual billing.
So, how about it, West Group? While some retooling of your
billing process would incur up-front costs, does it not seem that
in the long run, both the company and its customers would
benefit from the change?
Standing Orders vs. Subscriptions: West Should
Give Customers the Option of Annual Billing
Chris Graesser
Brown Rudnick
Freed & Gresmer
Hartford, Connecticut
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Getting the Edition You Meant to Order Chris Graesser
Brown Rudnick
Freed & Gresmer
Hartford, Connecticut
In the legal publishing world, new editions or revisions of
currently published works are often just over the horizon.
You should keep this in mind when placing an order for a
specific publication. Most publishers have a subscription policy
that provides a waiver of additional charges for new editions
or revisions shipped within a certain period of time after the
previous edition is purchased. For example, here is West Group’s
official policy:
Publications ordered with a subscription are provided with
a 90-day update service. West Group sends out the current
edition of a product unless otherwise requested, and any
updates scheduled within 90 days of the order will be
sent free of charge.
In the event that a future edition, rather than the current
edition of an item, is desired, please advise that you do
not wish to be sent the current edition; but [instruct us]
to enter your subscription for the number of copies you
would like to have when the new edition is published
and shipped.
Also note that West puts the burden to inquire about future
editions on the customer. While it is reasonable to waive charges
for new editions shipped within 90 days, many customers may
prefer to wait and receive the new edition. Primarily, it saves
the time and labor of processing the same material twice
before it reaches the bookshelves.
Some publishers will notify the customer of forthcoming new
editions or revisions at the time that an order is placed. Don’t
count on it, though. It is always a good idea to ask, especially
if you suspect that a newer work is in progress. Here are a few
specific steps to remember when ordering new material:
1. Familiarize yourself with the publication history of the work
you are ordering. How is it updated? When was the last
edition or revision published? This will give you a better
idea of what questions to ask when you place the order.
2. Use the services of your local account representatives
whenever possible. Ideally, they will give you a heads-up
if a new revision or edition is imminent. They will also be
able to advise you if their companies waive the cost of
subsequent revisions or if there have been any recent
changes in company policy on updates.
3. Know how long you or your requestor can wait to receive
the material. If you are ordering for someone who needs the
book right away, the fact that a new edition is due in two
months will probably not matter to him or her. However,
knowing that a new revision will be coming soon may alert
him/her to the existence of recent changes in the area of
law s/he is researching.
Law Library Cost-Saving Tips Kendall F. Svengalis
Rhode Island State
Law Library
Providence,
Rhode Island
1. Consider the distance to your local public law library
before leasing office space.
2. In an age of escalating prices for legal publications, wise
initial selection is imperative. Be sure to investigate all
available options for appropriate depth of coverage, price,
and supplementation cost, among other factors. Don’t buy
less than you require or more than you need.
3. When entering a subscription to a print legal product, be
sure to determine what add-ons may be included in the
subscription (e.g., advance annotation service, session
laws, law finder, tax volumes, desk book, etc.) or if
“related” volumes may be shipped.
4. Be sure you know how often a legal publication is
supplemented before making a purchase.
5. Avoid standing orders to secondary publications unless you
intend to consult them frequently or they are in your area
of specialization. They should be viewed as starting points
for research, not tools for ascertaining the current state
of the law. Use your primary law materials and citators to
accomplish this.
6. Place supplementation to secondary publications on a
notification-before-shipment basis. If necessary, order
latest supplement on a “Rush” basis.
7. If a standing order is dropped, determine in advance
how you will update the publication (use library copy,
Shepard’s, KeyCite, annotated code, case digest, legal
newspaper, CD-ROM, online service, or combination of
these). Remember that you will still be using many of
these tools to update the treatise that is on standing order.
8. Avoid telemarketers. If one gets through to you, do not
buy anything from him/her unless you want to end up
on the publisher’s list of hot prospects. Request a flyer if
you are at all interested. Finally, ask to be taken off the
publisher’s telemarketing list.
9. Consider alternatives to a complete set (abridged editions,
selected volumes, statutory subject compilations, etc.).
10. Share library and expenses with other firms in
your building.
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11. Exercise strict controls over the purchase of duplicate
copies. Force lawyers who desire personal copies of
items already in the library to purchase them at their
own expense.
12. Check amazon.com for discounted law books (e.g.,
ABA titles).
13. Subscribe to the law-lib listserv to obtain books for the
cost of postage.
14. Buy used books whenever feasible, but be sure to
determine fill-up cost and compare with new purchase
and accompanying no-charge supplementation. Establish
standing orders for supplementation with publisher
when appropriate.
15. Law firms without librarians should assign responsibility
for the library to one member of firm.
16. Evaluate shipments before accessioning or stamping.
Be prepared to return if unsolicited and/or unnecessary.
If unsolicited, request return label or claim at no cost
under terms of U.S. Postal law (39 U.S.C. §3009).
17. Place library titles on a spreadsheet and determine the
appropriate frequency of supplementation for each title.
Make sure your standing orders with publishers reflect
these determinations.
18. Conduct an annual inventory of your collection and the
expense incurred. Re-evaluate subscriptions based on
usage patterns and cost.
19. Set your Internet browser to FindLaw or some other
legal site.
20. Determine which public and commercial Web sites are
of greatest value to a practitioner in your jurisdiction
and practice areas and bookmark these.
21. Resist publisher demands to purchase more user licenses
to CD-ROM or online products than absolutely necessary.
22. Determine ways to fix your online research expense
through a combination of CD-ROM and fixed online pricing
(e.g. CD-ROM, Westlaw PRO, Lexis Advantage, LOIS,
VersusLaw, etc.). Establish similar pricing for citator
services (Shepard’s or KeyCite).
23. Consider establishing a VersusLaw account for $6.95 per
month. At the very least, consider it as a back-up to a
LEXIS or Westlaw subscription for those cases outside of
your own jurisdiction.
24. Consider a cyclical re-ordering of supplementation to
secondary publications (every two to five years based
on your usage patterns).
25. Read fine print and contract terms. In particular, watch
out for supplementation terms that may allow the
publisher to ship related titles on approval.
26. Avoid broader forays into Westlaw or LEXIS from the
jurisdiction(s) included in your fixed-rate contract or
CD-ROM uplink. Consider alternatives (e.g., VersusLaw
or LOIS).
27. Evaluate print products, CD-ROM, and online services in a
publicly accessible law library before making a purchase.
28. Avoid on-approval purchases unless you are fairly certain
you will keep the material. Don’t agree to an on-approval
purchase at the suggestion of a telemarketer unless you
want to wind up on more telemarketing lists.
29. Determine the recent history of supplementation costs
before agreeing to a purchase. Publishers are required
to provide the last two years in brochures. Check the
spreadsheet of initial and supplementation costs in the
latest edition of Legal Information Buyer’s Guide and
Reference Manual.
30. Inquire about combination or institutional (e.g., library)
discounts for larger purchases.
31. If you have a lapsed subscription, make sure your local
sales representative alerts you to special fill-up promotions
with no-cost supplementation for a certain period of time.
Allow subscription to lapse again at end of free
supplementation.
32. Use Westlaw or LEXIS research attorneys before conducting
complicated searches in both fixed and non-fixed-cost
databases.
33. Consider dropping your standing order to serial volumes
in such sets as ALR, Am Jur Trials, Am Jur Proof of
Facts, Causes of Action, Am Jur Legal Forms, Am Jur
Pleading and Practice Forms, etc. Given high annual
supplementation costs, consider repurchasing these sets
every three years. If you maintain bound volume
subscription, buy pocket parts every two to three years.
34. If you keep Am Jur 2d on standing order, drop annual
Federal Taxation volumes, annual index volumes, and
purchase pocket parts every two to three years. For
even greater savings, purchase a current used set every
three to four years.
35. Consider maintaining a subscription to your regional
reporter or federal advance sheets only instead of the
advance sheets and accompanying bound volumes.
36. Beware of solicitations disguised as invoices. These often
follow trial subscriptions. The tactic is based on the
assumption that you are more likely to renew a
subscription to which you already subscribe (even though
you never actually subscribed by conscious decision).
37. Determine if the frequency with which a publication is
supplemented corresponds to the frequency with which
you expect to consult it. If you are uncertain, be sure to
reevaluate at the end of the subscription period. Don’t
subscribe to a weekly looseleaf service if a treatise with
annual pocket part will do.
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38. Don’t be lulled into thinking that a fixed-rate online
contract can spare you from concerns about usage.
The terms of your next contract will approximate your
higher usage patterns. Cost-effective searching is always
a good idea.
39. If you have a fixed-rate Westlaw or LEXIS contract,
consider pairing it with a subscription to LOIS or VersusLaw
to keep usage, and future costs, under control. If not
for your firm, do it for your clients. At the very least,
encourage your users to use LOIS or VersusLaw as their
default online option to develop a basic understanding
of a legal issue and its terminology before going on to
one of the high-priced online services.
40. Consider becoming a member of an ABA section in your
area of specialization. Take advantage of special discounts
and offers.
41. Consider the purchase of one issue of a LOIS CD-ROM
product if it provides more comprehensive historical
coverage of court decisions (e.g., the LOIS Rhode Island
CD-ROM covers volume 1 (1828) of the Rhode Island
Reports to date, whereas the West product coverage begins
with 1885). Unlike the other CD-ROM publishers, LOIS
will sell one disc without requiring an annual subscription.
Thus, if you prefer the West Premise product, whose case
law coverage begins in 1885, you can still obtain the
full historical coverage with the purchase of one of the
quarterly LOIS CD-ROMs for $165.
42. Don’t read materials while online. Print lists of citations
and read in hard copy, or, if print is unavailable, offline
print desired cases, statutes, etc., and then sign-off.
43. One cost-saving tip many small firms overlook is the
benefit of LEXIS-NEXIS and Westlaw. Many firms buy
CD-ROMs that duplicate the content they already have
access to online (many even have at least one flat-rate
contract and continue to purchase CD-ROMs). As you
know, CD-ROMs require a lot more costs than just the
subscription—possibly a CD-ROM tower, server, and all
the maintenance costs associated with updating. Another
aspect that small firms tend to overlook is the ability to
bill back time (or recover the cost) spent on CDs vs. online.
Online services’ costs are relatively easy to determine,
while CD-ROMs have so many hidden costs that the time
feature built into many CD-ROMs does not accurately
account for the total cost. Aside from the costs, you really
can’t beat those toll-free numbers with knowledgeable
attorneys! (Thanks to Ann Walsh Long for this tip.)
44. Negotiate hard with LEXIS-NEXIS and Westlaw to get the
best deal for your firm; play one against the other to get
the best deal from either (as one might with two car
dealerships offering similar car models). (Luis Acosta)
45. Remember that obtaining information for “free” on
the Internet may not be the most cost-efficient solution
when a proprietary service can deliver the information
more quickly.
46. Pay in cash to avoid shipping and handling charges
or to obtain a discount (e.g., Matthew Bender’s
3% cash discount).
47. Don’t neglect to evaluate the usage and cost of even some
of your long-standing subscriptions. With advances in
technology, some publications may no longer receive the
level of usage to justify their cost. For example, West’s
Federal Case News, now priced at $375 per year, has been
largely left behind by online services and other current
awareness tools.
48. LOIS has recently lowered the price of its “Internet All”
subscription to $1176 per year. This gives you access to
cases, statutes, regulations, session laws, and attorney
general opinions for most states at a low fixed cost.
As before, multiple members of a law firm may share
the same user name and password without additional
per-attorney charges.
49. Have a strict firm policy to refer all publication
telemarketers to the library staff. (Mary Margaret
Serpento)
50. Never volunteer attorney names to telemarketers
when asked for practitioners in a particular area.
(Mary Margaret Serpento)
51. Have a strict policy that nothing may be charged to a firm
library budget account without prior review and approval
by librarian/library committee. (Mary Margaret Serpento)
52. Have a mandatory client file identification template for
Westlaw and LEXIS sessions. Review statements and contact
researchers about firm expense charges to see if they
might be client-chargeable. (Mary Margaret Serpento)
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A Legal Publishers’ List: Corporate
Affiliations of Legal Publishers
Rob Richards
University of Colorado
Law Library
Boulder, Colorado
The list below is available on the Web at http://www.colorado.
edu/Law/lawlib/ts/legpub.htm, with links to most publishers.
It is also accessible via the CRIV Web site. The list also contains a
synopsis of news relating to corporate affiliations of publishers
of legal information. The list is undergoing continual revision.
Please send comments to Rob Richards (University of Colorado
Law Library, Campus Box 402, Boulder, CO 80309-0402,
rrichard@stripe.colorado.edu).
For links to legal publishers not listed here, please refer to
AcqWeb’s Directory of Publishers and Vendors (see below).
AcqWeb includes a special directory of Law Publishers.
There are five major “families” of legal publishers: Thomson
Corporation; Reed Elsevier PLC; Wolters Kluwer; other
“subsidiary publishers”; and the “Indies.” The list has been
reformatted to fit The CRIV Sheet. The name of each of these
“families” appears centered, followed by a boldface italic entry
for each of its major subdivisions. Names under each of these
are boldfaced. The next subset is italic and indented; subsequent
subgroups are further indented.
Thomson Corporation
Thomson Legal & Regulatory Group
West Group (in addition to the publishers listed below, West
Group also publishes, under the Clark Boardman Callaghan
imprint, some former Prentice Hall and Maxwell Macmillan
titles, and treatises formerly published by Shepard’s):
West Publishing
Barclays Law Publishers
Bancroft-Whitney
Clark Boardman Callaghan
Compuclerk
Counterpoint Publishing
Federal Publications, Inc.
Foundation Press
Lawyers Coop
Legal Solutions
Information America
Rutter Group
RIA Group (publisher of some former Prentice Hall
and Maxwell Macmillan titles)
Research Institute of America (RIA)
Practitioners Publishing
Warren Gorham & Lamont (some former WG&L titles are
now published by West Group; others by A.S. Pratt & Sons.
For lists of titles and more details, please see:
http://www.wgl.com/special.html)
AlignMark
Thomson Legal & Professional Group
Brooker’s (New Zealand)
Carswell (Canada)
Les Éditions Yvon Blais Inc.
Danish Legal & Professional Group
Fakta (Sweden)
Gee (UK)
Newsletter Information Services (Australia)
Pendragon Professional Information Ltd (UK)
Stevens & Sons (UK)
Sweet & Maxwell Group (UK)
Sweet & Maxwell Ltd (Asia)
Sweet & Maxwell Ltd (UK)
• FT Law & Tax
• Green & Son Ltd (Scotland)
• Round Hall Press (Ireland)
Thomson Information A/S (Denmark)
Karnov
GadJura
Forlaget FSR
Otto B. Wroblewski
Thomson Information (Southeast Asia)
Thompson Professional Information Asia Pacific Pty Ltd
Australian Tax Practice
Centre for Professional Development (Australia)
LBC Information Services (formerly The Law Book
Company; Australia)
• Computer Law Services (CLS; Australia)
Thomson Tax (UK)
Westlaw Europe
Thomson & Thomson Group
Brandy International (Japan)
Compu-Mark (Belgium)
Thomson & Thomson
Thomson Financial Services
A.S. Pratt & Sons
Thomson Business Information
Gale Group
Gale Research
Information Access Company (IAC)
Primary Source Microfilm (prior to November 1999,
called Primary Source Media)
Thomson Learning (a.k.a. International Thomson
Publishing/ITP)
West Educational Publishing
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Reed Elsevier PLC
Please note: On July 31, 1998, Reed Elsevier completed its
acquisition of Matthew Bender from Times Mirror, and its
purchase from Times Mirror of the 50% of Shepard’s that
Reed did not previously own.
Reed Elsevier Legal
Butterworths
Editions du Juris-Classeur
Giuffre
Stampfli Verlag
Wydawnictwa Prawnicze PWN
LEXIS-NEXIS Group (LEXIS-NEXIS now has a minority stake
in VersusLaw.)
Business Information Services
CD Law, Inc.
Congressional Information Services Inc.
University Publications of America
Legal Information Services
LEXIS Document Services
LEXIS Publishing (publisher of some titles formerly
published by Aspen, West Group, Lawyers Coop, New
Mexico Law Institute, Sterling Steves Publishers, and Tower
Publishing). It also incorporates the following publishers:
Butterworth Legal Publishing USA
D&S Publishers
Equity
Martindale-Hubbell
Mason Publishers
Matthew Bender
Michie
Parker Brothers
Shepard’s (see the Web site for a link to a list of
former Shepard’s/McGraw Hill treatises and the
publishers that acquired them)
Marquis Who’s Who
National Information Services
National Register Publishing
Reed Technology and Information Services Inc.
Elsevier Science Inc.
JAI Press/Ablex Publishing (The acquisition of JAI
Press/Ablex Publishing by Elsevier Science Inc., announced
on Oct. 8, 1998, is contingent upon approval by U.S.
antitrust enforcement authorities.)
Wolters Kluwer
Aspen Publishers, Inc. (including Aspen Law and Business,
and Aspen Health Law and Compliance Center). Aspen
incorporates Little, Brown and Wiley Law, and publishes
some former Prentice Hall Law and Business titles.
Bureau of Business Practice (BBP) (acquired by Wolters
Kluwer from Pearson Publishing as of June 25, 1999)
CCH Incorporated
Corsearch
Telecommunications Reports International
Kluwer Academic
Kluwer Law International
Graham & Trotman Ltd.
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
NILS Publishing Co.
Ovid Technologies, Inc.
Panel Publishers
Other Subsidiary Publishers
American Lawyer Media
National Law Publishing Co.
Law Journal Seminars Press
Leader Publications
New York Law Publishing Co.
Law.com
Bell & Howell
Bell & Howell Information and Learning (formerly UMI)
Chadwyck-Healey
Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.
BNA Books
BNA International
Pike & Fischer
Tax Management, Inc.
BNA Software
Cartwright Omni Corporation
Canada Law Book, Inc.
Western Legal Publications
Aurora Professional Press
Dye & Durham
Emond Montgomery Publications Limited
Western Legal Information Services
Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
CQ Books
CQ Press
LEGI-SLATE (legislative tracking service)
CRC Press, LLC
Auerbach Publications
CRC Press
Dolan Media Company
Daily Record Co.
Government Institutes: a subsidiary of ABS Group,
which is a subsidiary of American Bureau of Shipping
Haights Cross Communications, LLC
Andrews Publications
Informa Group PLC
LLP Ltd (formerly Lloyd’s of London Press)
Monitor Press Ltd
Information Handling Services Group Inc. (IHS Group)
IHS Canada
Micromedia Limited
IHS Regulatory Products, Inc.
IHS Environmental Information, Inc. (ENFLEX)
IHS Federal Products
IHS Financial Products
IHS Health Information
IHS Human Resource Products (PeopleWorks)
IHS Transport Data Solutions
Interpharm Press
Jordan Publishing Limited (a subsidiary of Jordans Limited)
Family Law
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LRP Publications
Buraff Publications
CRR Publishing
Dartnell Corp.
Jury Verdict Research
MicroJuris (Puerto Rico)
Escrutinio Legislativo
Peter Lang AG (Bern, Switzerland)
Peter Lang GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany)
Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. (New York)
QL Systems Limited (QUICKLAW, Canada)
Current Legal Resources, Inc. (New York)
Irwin Law (Toronto)
Sourcebooks, Inc.
Sphinx Publishing
Taylor & Francis
Europa Publications
Garland Publishing
Routledge
The “Indies”
Agricultural Law Press
Alert Publications, Inc.
American Association of Law Libraries
American Bar Association
American Law Institute
American Law Institute—American Bar Association,
Committee on Continuing Professional Education
AmericanLegalNet
Anderson Publishing
Ashgate Publishing
Austin & Winfield
AWHFY, L.P.
Bernan Associates, Bernan Press
Big Foot Press
Bowne & Co., Inc.
Business & Legal Reports
Business Laws, Inc.
Business Publishers
California Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB)
Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia
(CLE BC)
Context Limited, publishers of JUSTIS products (U.K.)
Court Record Services, Inc., publisher of BriefServe
CourtLink
Cutter Information Corp.
DJØF Publishing (Denmark)
EveryForm (U.K.)
Federated Press
FindLaw
Florida Bar
Folio: see NextPage, LC
Gann Law Books
Glasser LegalWorks
J. & B. Gould Publications
Harrison Co. (Norcross, GA)
Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education
Infosources Publishing
Insight Information Co.
Institute of Continuing Legal Education (ICLE, Michigan)
Island Press
Iustus Förlag (Sweden)
James Publishing
Jones McClure Publishing, Inc.
Jurifax Inc. (Montreal)
Juriliber Limited
Juris Publishing, Inc.
Kauppakaari Oyj (Finland)
Knowles Publishing, Inc.
Law Office Information Systems (LOIS)
The Law Press, Ltd. (Alaska)
Law Reporters Publishing Group
LAWCAST
Lawgic
LawNetCom, Inc. (Mississippi)
Lawpress (Westport, Connecticut)
Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company, Inc.
Maritime Law Book Company (Canada)
Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. (MCLE)
Mealey Publications
National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade
NextPage, LC (owners of Folio products)
Nolo Press
Oceana Publications
Phillips Publishing
Practising Law Institute (PLI)
RAND
The Rawlings Company (Louisville, Kentucky)
Registre (Anoka, Minnesota)
Rhode Island LawPress
M. Lee Smith
Specialty Technical Publishers, Inc.
(STP, of British Columbia)
State Bar of Texas
State Net (incorporating LEGI-SLATE’s
customer service operations)
Stevens-Ness Law Publishing Co. (Portland, Oregon)
Stafford Publications
Tano Aschehoug (Norway)
Tax Analysts
Texas Lawyer Press (texlaw.com)
Thompson Publishing (Washington, D.C.)
Transaction Publishers
Transnational Publishers, Inc.
United Communications Group (UCG)
university presses (the American Association of
University Presses now has 110 members)
VersusLaw, Inc. (LEXIS-NEXIS now has a minority
stake in VersusLaw, Inc.)
WANT Publishing Co.
Warren Publishing
William S. Hein & Co. (incorporating Fred B. Rothman & Co.)
This page was last updated December 28, 1999. Please send
comments to rrichard@stripe.colorado.edu.
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AcqWeb—A Text-only Overview Anna Belle Leiserson
Vanderbilt Law Library
Nashville, TennesseeEditors Note: The material below (cross-links are deleted)
comes from two sections of AcqWeb. The first can be seen in
full at http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/acqs.html.
The second, on World Wide Web resources, is at
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/law.html. In both
cases, most items have hotlinks to the sites mentioned.
Welcome to AcqWeb, sister publication of ACQNET and the
gathering place for librarians and other professionals interested
in acquisitions and collection development. For those unfamiliar
with our terminology, we are the staff who select and purchase
the books, serials, and related information resources for our
libraries. If you are a newcomer to this site, more detailed
information can be found in our Editorial Policy.
AcqWeb began in 1994, and continues to grow as the Web
grows. We aim to be international in our scope and approach.
Please visit us at our Web site: http://www.library.vanderbilt.
edu/law/acqs/law.html.
Contents
I. Web News for Acquiring Minds
A. AcqWeblog, October 29, 1999
B. New Publishers Added, July 12, 1999
C. Conference Announcements
II. Verification Tools and Resources
A. In Print and Price Listings
B. Out-of-Print, Rare and Antiquarian Agents
C. Library Catalogs and Bibliographic Utilities
D. World Wide Web Collections and Resources
III. AcqWeb’s Directory of Publishers and Vendors
A. Publisher E-mail Address Directory, edited by David Marshall
B. Publisher Web Sites: Alphabetic Directory
C. Publisher Web Sites: Geographic Directory, by Peter Scott
D. Publisher Web Sites: Subject Directory
E. New Title Notifications
F. Other Links to Publishers, Vendors and Books
IV. Associations and Organizations
V. Library & Information Science
A. General Library & Information Science Sites
B. Schools of Library & Information Science Lists
C. Employment
D. Hot Topics
E. Diversions
F. Acquisitions
G. Cataloging
H. Collection Development
I. Copyright and Licensing Information
J. Gifts and Exchanges
K. Microforms
L. Preservation and Binding
M. Serials
N. Software, OPACs and Library Systems
O. Statistics
VI. Journals, Newsletters and Electronic
Discussion Archives
A. Journals and Newsletters
B. Electronic Discussion (“Listserv”) Archives and
Usenet Newsgroups
C. Newspapers
D. Directories
VII. Reference Resources
A. General and Miscellaneous
B. Awards Information
C. Biographical Information
D. English Dictionaries, Thesauri and Glossaries
E. Foreign Language
F. Geographic Information
G. Government Information
H. Money Matters
I. Postal Information
J. Quotations
K. Style and Citation Guides
L. Telephone Information
M. Time and Date
N. Weather
VIII. Guides to Getting Started on the Web
A. General Introductions to the Internet and the Web
B. Resources for Specific Areas of Librarianship
C. AcqWeb’s Guide to Searching the Internet
IX. ACQNET, the edited listserv
X. AcqWeb Information
A. Search AcqWeb
B. Editorial Policy
C. CONTACQS: Updating AcqWeb
XI. Credits
AcqWeb’s WWW Resources for
Law Librarians in Acquisitions
and Collection Development
Associations
• AALLNET (American Association of Law Libraries Information
System), and regional groups:
• The Committee on Relations with Information Vendors
(CRIV)
• Online Bibliographic Services Special Interest Section
• Technical Services Special Interest Section
• CALI (The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction)
Automated Library Systems
• Innovative Law Users Group (ILUG)
• Law Libraries with Innovative Systems: Separate or Shared?,
compiled by Anne Myers, Pappas Law Library, Boston University
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• OBS Links to Library Automation Sites
Catalogs
• Law Library Catalogs
Copyright
• Copyright Permission Pages, the Professional Center Library
for Law and Management, Wake Forest University
General Law Sites
• Best of the Web for Lawyers from legal.online
• FindLaw, including LawCrawler; searches the contents
of law-related Web sites
• Hieros Gamos from Lex Mundi
• Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research (Georgia State University
College of Law)
Journals, Newsletters and Listserv Archives
• Contents Pages from Law Reviews (Tarleton Law Library,
University of Texas at Austin)
• Directory of Law-Related Discussion Groups from University
of Oklahoma Law Center; subscription information and
archive links
• Index of Law-Related E-Journals and Periodicals from
University of Southern California Law Center and Law Library
• Law Library Resource Xchange, a Web journal which focuses
on research, management and technology topics
• Law Lists by Lyonette Louis-Jacques; see also her more
selective Lists for Law Librarians
• Law-Lib Electronic Discussion List Archive, Sept. 1997–
• Law-Lib Listserv FAQ by Christopher Noe; includes
Links to retrospective and current archives
• Technical Services Law Librarian
• University Law Review Project (includes full text search
of law journals on the Internet)
New Acquisitions Lists
• Alyne Queener Massey Law Library, Vanderbilt University,
Selected New Titles
• Suffolk University Law Library New Acquisitions
• Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin,
New Collection Acquisitions
Policies
• Acquisitions Policy for Information Resources, Dickinson
School of Law Library
• Law Library Collection Development Policies: Policy
Documents and Resources (a Project of the Acquisitions
Committee Technical Services Special Interest Section,
American Association of Law Libraries, compiled by
Rob Richards, University of Colorado Law Library)
Purchasing Resources and Publishers
• Law Publishers and Vendors AcqWeb’s directory
• A Legal Publishers’ List: The Shape of Legal Publishing Today
by Rob Richards, University of Colorado Law Library
• Needsandoffers-l Archives; part of WashLaw WEB List Archives
from Washburn University School of Law Library
• Newlawbooks-l Archives; part of WashLaw WEB List Archives
from Washburn University School of Law Library
• Treatise Costs from Legal Information Buyer’s Guide and
Reference Manual by Kendall F. Svengalis —detailed cost
analyses of U.S. supplemented sets, by subject
• Vendors For Foreign Law Materials by Mary Ertl, University of
Iowa Law Library, and Harold Moren, Harvard Law Library
Reference Resources and Directories
• Law Schools and Firms
• Directory of Legal Academia (U.S.) from Cornell’s LII
• Law Firms—Indiana University School of Law
• Law Schools—University of Chicago
• Law Schools and Libraries—Indiana University
School of Law
• Lawyers
• Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer locator
• West’s Legal Directory
• Other Resources
• The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 15th ed.
Reviews of Law Publications
• Bimonthly Review of Law Books, index only, for volumes 1–8
(1990–1997)
• Books-on-Law reviewing new and forthcoming scholarly
and trade books related to law; from JURIST: The Law
Professors’ Network
• InSITE, a service of Cornell Law Library; reviews of selected
law-related Web sites
• Law and Politics Book Review
• List of Law-Related Internet Books and Newsletters,
by G. Burgess Allison
Technical Services Home Pages
• Technical Services Home Pages for law librarians, maintained
by Anne Myers, Pappas Law Library, Boston University
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