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The ICLL can be found linked from the homepage when you log into Westlaw.<\/p>\n\n

If you are a Queen's student or researcher from outside the law school, you can access the ICLL via our campus-wide account<\/a>.<\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"3b5761c9-90fe-4fb5-964d-206ba1c04a80","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Find the ICLL on Westlaw"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"

When you search the ICLL, you are not <\/em>searching within the full-text of articles. You are only searching across select pieces of information about <\/em>an article: its title, author(s), and subject(s).<\/p>\n\n

As a result, you cannot use very granular keywords to search the index\u2014typically primary and secondary keywords, rather than tertiary. Think carefully about what words are likely to come up in subject classifications or in the title of a resource. <\/p>\n\n

\u25baSee Brainstorm Preliminary Keywords<\/a> for more information on types of keywords.<\/p>\n\n

Generally, you'll use an initial keyword search to identify one relevant article, and then use that article's subject classification to identify other relevant articles.<\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"01e3103c-8d8b-42e2-ab55-fbc0db175d29","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Keyword searching in the ICLL"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"

Articles in the ICLL are tagged with subject headings<\/strong>, which are <\/strong>controlled terms used to describe the topic(s) covered in an article.<\/p>\n\n

Subject headings help capture the various ways a concept is expressed. For example, an article could be tagged with \"impaired driving\" as a standardized term, even if the term actually used in the article is \"drunk driving\". <\/p>\n\n

An effective way to find articles is to first locate one relevant article, and then use the ICLL subject heading to locate more articles on that topic. Once you've found an article, click into the record, and browse through the subject headings to find one that speaks to your topic.<\/p>\n\n

\u25baSee this screenshot<\/a> for what subject headings look like in an article record.<\/p>\n\n

Click the relevant subject heading to retrieve all articles that have been classified on that topic. The subject heading typically retrieves many more relevant articles because the subject heading retrieved all articles pertaining to the specific topic, regardless of whether the authors used that word in the title.<\/p>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"fcd6a3d0-96b9-4013-ba4e-100521fc3313","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Use subject headings to find articles"},{"content":{"params":{"text":"

Once you have identified an article that is of interest to you, you still need to track down the full article:<\/p>\n\n

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Sometimes, Westlaw does have the full article. If this is the case, the \"Cite\/Reference\" field will contain a link to the article.<\/li>\n\t
If Westlaw does not have the full article, follow the steps in Find a Known Article<\/a> to locate it, using the ICLL Periodicals List<\/a> to determine the title of the journal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n"},"library":"H5P.AdvancedText 1.1","subContentId":"6383d383-7067-4180-9f0f-e189ddc99572","metadata":{"contentType":"Text","license":"U","title":"Untitled Text"}},"title":"Find the full-text of an article"}],"hTag":"h3"}

Searching the Index to Canadian Legal Literature (ICLL)

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Emma Scott