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Current Awareness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2009

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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Current Awareness
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Legal Information Management , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , September 2009, pp. 221 - 225
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Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2009

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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