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Current Awareness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2010

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 10 , Issue 1 , March 2010 , pp. 72 - 75
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Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2010

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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