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April 29, 2011

Summer Lexis & Westlaw

Don’t forget to register if you plan to use your student accounts over the summer.

Lexis: Go to lexisnexis.com/lawschool and click on the “Manage Your Account” Tab. Log in, then go to “Update Registration Information.” The catch-all option is Research Skill Improvement. Note that you do not have to fill in the name of your employer.
Westlaw: Go to lawschool.westlaw.com/shared/marketinfodisplay.asp?code=MI&id=322 and choose the “Current Student” option.

Questions? Contact your student representatives or your account representatives. Check home pages (not research pages) for contact information: lexisnexis.com/lawschool or lawschool.westlaw.com.

April 20, 2011August 15, 2012

Source collection with online books

Did you know you can frequently use and cite online versions of sources–even books–when you’re checking cites?

For example, you can use online versions that are “exact copies” of print sources under R. 18.2. Two places to check for Adobe® PDF versions of scanned books are:

Google Books. Google cannot display every book it has due to copyright issues, but there are millions of books available in full.
Example: The Law of Inheritance According to the Mitacshara, (Rajendro Missry & Opprokash Chunder Mookerjee, eds., H.T. Colebrooke, trans., Thacker Spink & Co. 1869). Google Books has a high-quality scanned version of this 1869 printing.
Hathi Trust. Hathi Trust is a community of research libraries, including the University of California consortium. Hathi Trust has many digital versions of books from Google, plus more titles from its member libraries. (For a quick intro, see this short article from Cornell University News.)
Example: Michael J. Kelly, Lives of Lawyers: Journeys in the Organizations of Practice (1996). Hathi Trust provides a high-quality scanned version of the 2007 printing of this title.

Once you find an online version of a source, you need to cite it in the correct format. Rule 18.2.1 offers general Internet citation principles to determine if you:

provide no URL at all, as if the print version had been used,
directly append the URL to the end of the cite, or
use “available at” with the URL at the end of the cite.

March 31, 2011April 15, 2011

New books – there’s a feed for that

There’s an RSS feed for new law titles, including books in the Law Library and law titles at other UCI Libraries. Point your favorite feed reader to: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu/feeds/newlawlib.xml.

February 1, 2011April 15, 2011

Oxford University Press eBooks

Thirty new books were in the January update to Law titles in Oxford Scholarship Online. (Groups of titles are added a few times a year.) Subjects include: legal history and philosophy, analytic and comparative work on legal doctrine, empirical research on law in modern society, etc. See titles from:

Oxford Studies in European Law,
Oxford Monographs in International Law,
Oxford Monographs in Criminal Law and Justice,
Clarendon Studies in Criminology,
Oxford Monographs in Labour Law,
Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History,
Oxford Studies in International Economic Law, and
the International Courts and Tribunals series, alongside many other works.

UC Irvine Libraries have other Oxford Scholarship Online titles, including the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.

Click through from ANTPAC.

January 14, 2011April 15, 2011

Audio Case Files

Courtroom View Network (CVN) Law School is an online resource geared to law students and faculty, offering audio versions of precedential judicial opinions. You can browse through and download audio files by 1L, 2L and 3L subjects, casebooks, and most popular cases. You can also access trial videos by case name, practice area or jurisdiction, including real courtroom video clips highlighting trial techniques with analysis.
Click through from ANTPAC.