INTRODUCTION TO LIBRARY RESOURCES

Marylin J. Raisch, Associate Law Librarian for International and Foreign Lawmjr47@law.georgetown.eduintlref@law.georgetown.edu and featuring your portal to academic success: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/

Preparing for Classes: Resources Hornbooks, Nutshells, Treatises: Treatise finder:

http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/research/treatise-finders/index.cfm

Past Exams! Under Student Resources at the Library Home Page, go to https://apps.law.georgetown.edu/system/login.cfm?rp=/exams-archive/ to enter your netID and password

Course Reserves: physically only at the Williams location; virtually at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/students/index.cfm by course or by professor’s name.

Researching Papers

Library Resources on-line

Student Resources: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/students/index.cfm

Tutorials: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/research/tutorials/index.cfm

Research Guides: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/research/guides/index.cfm

Catalogue, Go to Library home page: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/ Our Gulliver catalogue search starts in our Encore database mode, and the results include articles from electronic journals to which we subscribe, links to digital full texts we have captured or preserved, descriptions of books and print serials, and databases aggregating even more texts and information.

Due Process: The Georgetown Law Library Blog: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/blog/and linked from the law library home page.

Plagiarism policy: Please see the appendix and definition on plagiarism in the 2012-2013 Georgetown Law Bulletin , http://www.law.georgetown.edu/campus-services/registrar/bulletin/index.cfm at pages 116-117.

Secondary Sources: Finding Articles via Georgetown Research Databases

General, U.S., Foreign and International periodical articles (and more): a full list of databases is linked at “view all databases” scrolling down at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/research/index.cfm Index to Legal Periodicals (Westlaw and Research Databases) Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Publisher-based journal collections: Oxford, Cambridge, Kluwer Hein Online

Lauinger databases, http://guides.library.georgetown.edu/, by topic, e.g., Women’s and Gender Studies

Google Scholar (best via Lauinger Library main page, http://www.library.georgetown.edu/ after logging into your account at a link to their George catalogue (start with “your accounts” at the top of the page) if you work from home.

Databases that have PDFs

Hein Ebsco ProQuest Publishers And more…

The Library Catalog with Database List, and the Student Resources Portal: essential starting points

View All Databases

Legal and Non-legal Information: Lauinger Library and Google Scholar: for Articles and Journals, put radio button

on Google Scholar

Off-campus: Law Sources Logging into our Gulliver Law Catalogue at

http://gull.georgetown.edu/ means you can… See items checked out to your account and renew them; Request items, place holds; Find COURSE RESERVE material. Email records for selected books to yourself; use some

bibliographic software (EndNote, RefWorks) to format citations;

Set up EMAIL ALERTS for books newly added to GULLiver. Re-run searches that you have saved.

When you’re off campus, log in BEFORE you search. Searching a database by starting at its record in the

catalog assures recognition of your net ID and password.

Secondary Sources: Finding Books and Databases LC subject headings. Start with a good hit; can be tricky, e.g., Commonwealth (Organization) --

Constitutional law -- Digests and Administrative law-Commonwealth countries-

Digests both topic strings are assigned to Law Reports of the

Commonwealth Customary law—Nigeria—cases WorldCat (books) via our catalogue,

http://gull.georgetown.edu/ Other law library catalogues around the world:

they’re free!!

Login screen for Law has two options: netID and 9-digit GoCard number

Book search, interdisciplinary exampleEdward Said, Orientalism, 1978

Keyword search, main screen Advanced search option

Results from keyword search

Results from advanced search by author, title; book also not found (only articles about it or the topic; results more readily apparent. Next step: look for it on main

campus via George catalogue

Or move over to our classic catalogue to connect to the George catalogue after re-entering search terms; click “find at main campus”:

Intercampus Borrowing from Main Campus

You can directly request items from Georgetown’s other libraries by going to the George catalog and clicking the link asking that the book be held at a law circulation desk. Select a pick-up location! (Williams Law Library or Wolff International Law Library)

Suppose neither the law library nor the main campus libraries owns a book?

Interlibrary loan is free…

Back under Student Resources, choose Interlibrary Loan

You will next see an instruction page for Interlibrary Loan and our ILLiad system

Put your Journal Name Here

ILL tips

Renew items Return by due date If you need just a book chapter or a few

pages, note that in the “use of material field”

Finding Documents, Working Papers, and Reports on the Internet Compare search features of IGO and NGO sites with Google. Many sites with document databases generate in-site-only

results dynamically, and thus will not always generate results via Google or your item may be buried in a deluge of less relevant texts.

SSRN-LSN Social Science Research Network, Legal Scholarship Network (working papers)http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/DisplayJournalBrowse.cfm

There are many separate working paper sites, such as those of the Olin Foundation (economics, supporting the National Bureau of Economic Research or NBER as well as several university programs, and now mostly on SSRN), or the Jean Monnet program and other European papers sites (EU, interdisciplinary)

Many universities and law schools, along with Georgetown, now have a Scholarly Commons or BePress site; many use open access to scholarly papers of their faculties.

Newspaper Articles

Historical Newspapers- image based We have New York Times, Washington Post & Wall

Street Journal

Microforms Are in catalog

Factiva Most comprehensive database of recent newspapers

Lexis and Westlaw Limited to certain publisher; neither database has all

major papers

Legal Citation: World Meets Bluebook

Georgetown Bluebook Guide, http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/research/bluebook/index.cfm

University of Minnesota frequently-cited treaties, http://library.law.umn.edu/researchguides/most-cited.html

Global Studies Law Review, Washington University, http://law.wustl.edu/wugslr/index.aspx?id=5512

A Citation Manual for European Community Materials, 2d Annual Edition, Fordham International Law Journal, http://law.fordham.edu/assets/ILJ/EU_Citation_Manual_2010-2011_for_Website.pdf

Oxford Standard Citation of Legal Authorities 4th ed. 2012, http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/publications/oscola.php (for download)

NYU Guide to Foreign and International Citations, http://www.law.nyu.edu/ecm_dlv1/groups/public/@nyu_law_website__library/documents/documents/ecm_dlv_006388.pdf

Prince's Bieber dictionary of legal abbreviations , 6th ed., Buffalo, N.Y.: W. S. Hein & Co., 2009 (in print), http://gull.georgetown.edu/record=b957566~S0*eng

Recap with 5 take-away tips: Just some of what the Law Library provides for

YOU

1) Reference Desk Answers research or other questions in person at Williams or Wolff; Welcomes you as a new student: printing, photocopying, etc. are all at

http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/students/new-students.cfm Provides you a LiveHelp button that “follows” you on the library’s web site;

2) Reference Consultations To request a research consultation:

http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/about/services-policies/research-consultations.cfm

3) Past exams database https://apps.law.georgetown.edu/system/login.cfm?rp=/exams-archive/

4) Interlibrary Loan (ILL)http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/about/services-policies/interlibrary-loan.cfm

5) Collaborate! Book a group study room https://apps.law.georgetown.edu/system/login.cfm?rp=/library-rooms/index.cfm?

Hours, borrowing books, food & drink, and much more at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/about/services-policies/index.cfm

WELCOME TO GEORGETOWN!GOOD LUCK!