LEST
500
E.V. McDermitt
Spring 2008
Individual course index / sp08/lest500_mcdermitt.htm
Introduction
| Recommended Books | Legal
databases | General databases
Book catalogs | Suggested
Websites | General Reference Tools
Other helpful information
Introduction:
This page will help you find legal information at Langsdale Library, including books, journal articles and web resources. This, however, is only a sampling of materials available. Visit the Langsdale website or the Law Library website for more information.
For questions, contact Thomas Arendall-Salvetti, the librarian for your class, at tarendall-salvetti@ubalt.edu or 410-837-4275. You can also contact the Reference Desk by e-mail (langref@ubalt.edu), chat, or phone (410-837-4274). We look forward to assisting you with your research!
Recommended Books:
(For additional
resources, see Public Administration Research Guide )
Elias, S. & Levinkind, S. (2005). Legal research: How to find and understand the law (13th ed.). Berkeley, CA: Nolo. (Reference -- 1st floor: KF240 .E35 2005)
Garner, B.A. (Ed.). (2004). Black's law dictionary (8th ed.). St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West. (Reference -- 1st floor: KF156 .B53 2004)
Hall, K.L. (Ed.). (1999). The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions. New York: Oxford University Press. (Reference -- 1st floor: KF4548 .O94 1999)
Johnson, J.W. (1992). Historic U. S. Court Cases 1690-1990: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing. (Reference -- 1st floor: KF385 .A4 J64 1992)
Sears, J.L. (2001). Using government information sources: Electronic and print. Phoenix: Oryx Press. (Reference -- 1st floor: J83 .S4 2001)
Lexis-Nexis Academic [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1970 - present. Features full text of many newspapers and periodicals. Also offers business news, legal materials such as federal & state codes, case law and legal journals.HEIN ONLINE: [On-campus]
Coverage: varies. A retrospective collection of over 90 law reviews, with over 200,000 articles. Full-text is available, in graphical image format.PAIS - Public Affairs Information Service [on-campus]
Coverage: 1972 – present. Indexes 3600 journals, books, and government documents in the fields of political science, policy, public administration, society.Criminal Justice Abstracts [on-campus]
Coverage: 1968 - present. Criminal Justice Abstracts indexes the major journals, books and governmental reports in the areas of criminology and related disciplines. Topics include crime trends, corrections, police, offenders, juvenile delinquency, courts, victims, and sentencing.
General/Multidisciplinary
databases:
Use these to find full text periodical articles and/or citations to
articles. Click
here to see how these databases are different from the Internet.
Academic Search Premier [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1990 - present. Provides full-text for over 3,400 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, sciences, and more. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).
Book
catalogs:
Use these to locate books, journals (not individual articles), videos,
and government documents.
Catalog USMAI [help]
Books, journals, government documents and other materials in the University System of Maryland, including UB. You may search up to six individual locations or the entire system.Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts from Proquest) [on-campus]
Coverage 1861 – present. Indexes U.S., Canadian, British, and other European dissertations and theses; dissertations abstracted since 1980, theses abstracted since 1988. A 24 page preview of dissertations published since 1997 is available. The full text of dissertations may be obtained by clicking the free download button.WorldCat [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Varies. International database of collections (including books, journals , dissertations, documents, and other materials) held by libraries worldwide. Maryland libraries that own copies of the items display at the top of the list of libraries so you can easily determine if local libraries own the material needed. Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.
Suggested
websites:
These may
provide useful information or agencies or organizations who may be sources
of information.
Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR)
http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/Cornell Legal Information Institute
http://www.law.cornell.edu/FindLaw
http://www.findlaw.com/Langsdale Library CyberGov
http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/research_aids/cybergov.htmMaryland General Assembly
http://mlis.state.md.us/Maryland Manual On-line
http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/mdmanual/html/mmtoc.htmlThomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
http://thomas.loc.gov/UB Law Library Virtual Reference Shelf
http://law.ubalt.edu/template.cfm?page=470
General
reference tools:
These may assist you in your search for material or in evaluating
and citing material found.
Full-text Periodical List
Provides a listing of database locations for print and online periodicals accessibleEvaluating Web Resources
Guide to evaluating material obtained via the InternetCitation Styles
Guides to MLA, APA, and other citation styles.
For more information email langref@ubalt.edu, call 410-837-4274 or Chat with a Librarian at http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/info_services/contact.htm.
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