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Current Awareness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2012

Katherine Read and
Laura Griffiths
Katherine Read
Affiliation:
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Laura Griffiths
Affiliation:
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

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Legal Information Management , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , March 2012, pp. 63 - 67
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2012. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

This Current Awareness column, and previous Current Awareness columns, are fully searchable in the caLIM database (Current Awareness for Legal Information Managers). The caLIM database is available on the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies website at: http://ials.sas.ac.uk/library/caware/caware.htm

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