Paper Versus Electronic Sources for Law Review Cite Checking: Should Paper Be the Gold Standard?” Law Library Journal 97 (2005): 31–48. The authors surveyed law review editors to ascertain how their cite-checking practices have been affected by the increa

Despite law students ’ reliance on electronic sources for legal research, a sur-vey confirmed that many journals make their staff members check authors’ citations against paper sources. Rumsey and Schwartz argue that the advent of image-based document collections should change this practice, making life easier for law students and law school librarians. ¶1 Citation checking has long formed an integral part of the law review publica-tion process. Traditionally students have used print publications found in their library for this activity, but the increasing availability of legal sources in electronic formats, particularly image-based formats, has raised questions about this approach. To find out how these electronic versions fit into current law review practice, we conducted a survey of law review editors. ¶2 Despite the convenience of electronic versions, our survey found that law review editors continue to strongly prefer paper sources. This preference conflicts with libraries ’ need to cancel duplicate print subscriptions to reporters and law reviews, and to avoid large interlibrary loan costs. The advent of image-based electronic versions of cases and law review articles, however, has begun to affect some cite-checking practices. ¶3 In this article, we report the results of this survey of law review practice and suggest that image-based documents should lead to changes in law review policy. Cite Checking—The Process and Its Importance ¶4 In contrast to scholarly publications in other disciplines, most law journals ge