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Poli322: American Constitutional Law

Poli322: American Constitutional Law

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Poli322: American Constitutional Law

Some Useful Information Sources

I. BOOKS

Library catalogs:

- The 性视界 catalog
- Combined catalog of more than 80 Ohio libraries
- Combined catalog of thousands of libraries worldwide

(If you can't get it from OhioLINK, fill out the Interlibrary Loan: Book Request Form)
 

Some helpful books:

In the Reference section:

West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 13 volumes. Ref.
Black's Law Dictionary. 7th ed. Ref.   

In the Main Stacks:

The U.S. Constitution A to Z. Main
The Constitution and Its Amendments. 4 volumes. Main

II. PERIODICALS

Article databases for Political Science Research

Produced by the International Political Science Association, this database includes current indexing and abstracts of the world's leading journals in political science published from 1989 to the present.

Contains legal news and reviews, case law, codes and regulations, and more.

Use "Get A Doc Assistance" link to lookup case law.

Use the "All Nexis Uni" button to the left of the search box to Narrow by Content Collection to Law Reviews and Journals. 

Full text and indexing of law journals.
Indexes multidisciplinary scholarship in feminist research.
Contains full text for more than 3,600 scholarly publications, plus article summaries for 900 more journals.
Covers a wide variety of subjects areas. Journals start with the first (oldest) issue, although the most recent few years are not included.
Full text of the New York Times from its inception in 1851 through 2014. More recent full text at nytimes.com (to create a free account, visit ).
U.S and Canadian history, pre-history to present. Has article summaries but no full text.

Or - look at the full list of All Databases.

 

 

III. LOCATING JOURNALS

 

 

  • At 性视界: use Journals the Library Has to search for the name of the journal in which your article was published.
  • If 性视界 doesn't have the journal: use Interlibrary Loan: Article Request Form
  • Note: Locating journals can be tricky, difficult, and generally exasperating. If you run into trouble, a reference librarian will be glad to assist you.

    IV. INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES

    Each search engine searches a different set of web pages, so the same search query may produce a different result list in each of the following:
     

    -
    Caution! This provides references to scholarly articles, but finding the actual article may be difficult and costly. Also, journal coverage is incomplete and not current. Subscription databases are almost always better.

     

     

    V. RECOMMENDED WEB SITES

    Primary Sources

    • (via the Library of Congress)
    • with references to cases, books, articles, and additional commentary from - also called The Annotated Constitution.

    U.S. Government Sites

    • -

    Findlaw

    • - Besides links to laws, and Supreme Court cases, this site has links to message boards and discussion groups, journal articles, newsletters, hot topics, and more.
    • - Here you will find biographies of justices, court rules, recent decisions, the court docket, and more.

    Guides from other Universities

    • "Law news and legal research in real-time, reported and edited by law students and faculty at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law." (via JURIST: The Law Professors' Network)
    • (cooperative effort of the University of Oklahoma Law Center, the National Indian Law Library (NILL), and Native American tribes to provide access to the Constitutions, Tribal Codes, and other legal documents)
    • - Has sections on Constitutions and Codes, Court Opinions, Introduction to Basic Legal Citation, Law Events in the News, and more. LII also has an online and a .
    • - en excellent compendium of resources at Northwestern's Pritzker Legal Research Center (性视界 does not have subscriptions to some of the databases mentioned here, but we do have access to LexisNexis Academic - a version of Lexis meant for undergraduate institutions).

    VI. FOR DOCUMENTING YOUR SOURCES:


    or,

     

    VII. PEOPLE RESOURCES:

    For help, contact Kristen Peters, who is library liaison with the Political Science Department.
    Or contact the research help desk.

    Compiled by Regina Entorf, 性视界 Library
    Last updated 1-26-15/KGP
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