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19 Trends L. Libr. Mgmt. & Tech. 1 (2009)

handle is hein.journals/ttllmt19 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume 19 rencs IN LAW LIBRARY MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY Edited by Philip C. Berwick • -For academic, firm, corporate, and government law librarians Lexpus: Law Journal Submissions System By JoHN DOYLE, Associate Law Librarian, Washington and Lee School of Law; Lexington, Virginia In January 2009 I received a $3,804 AALL Wolters Kluwer grant for the creation of a law journal submissions system. This is an example of how a small, but by no means inconsequential, sum of money can produce a service out of proportion to the dollars, a service that would have been impossible without the money. Going to one's own institution with such a request is a little like a prophet expecting honor in his own hometown. The basic premise of Lexpus (http://lexopus.wlu.edu) is that offers to journals are made sequentially, similar to the way requests are processed in the interlibrary loan module of OCLC. The author specifies an ordered list of law journals and Lexpus conveys, on behalf of the author, a short-term exclusive offer to each journal in sequence. The standard short-term offer is seven days. If the journal rejects the author's offer then the offer inmediately moves on to the (2009)