Electronic Resources

On Thursday, Nov. 8th the library will be providing a training on CALI. Come to rooms 275/76 in the library at 11am to find out how CALI can help you prepare for finals.

Here's a quick tip I learned since becoming a librarian that I wish I would have known as a law student. Since Westlaw and Lexis both contain annotated versions of the U.S. Code, …

Over the past few days I have received several questions regarding CALI (The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction). For those who have wondered, CALI is a resource that can be used to supplement …

A few weeks back I wrote about using subject searching as an electronic research technique. I return to the subject to explore some of the subject searching possibilities in LexisNexis. In looking at …

As a first year, one of the key research tools you learned was the West Key Number system and the Digests. You learned that West editors examined every case and broke those cases …

Contrary to popular belief, keyword searching isn't the only way to search for legal resources on the web. Google and other search engines have programmed us to keyword search for everything and for …

The Law Library has recently acquired access to several important Congressional resources online. These resources are especially valuable to anyone involved in federal legislative history research. With this recent addition the following documents …