Sample Focus on International & Comparative Law Sources Marylin J.

Raisch Associate Law Librarian for International and Foreign Law mjr47@law.georgetown.edu intlref@law.georgetown.edu

INTRODUCTION TO LIBRARY RESOURCES

Secondary Sources: Finding Articles via Georgetown Research Databases

Foreign and International article location:

http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/guides/articles.cfm Index to Legal Periodicals (Westlaw and Research Databases) Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Hein Online and e-Journal Finder Legal Journals Index (Westlaw, UK only) Lauinger databases, http://www.library.georgetown.edu , by topic, e.g., Womens and Gender Studies

E-Journal Finder

Databases that have PDFs

Hein
Ebsco ProQuest Publishers

Off-campus
When youre off campus, log in to eJournal finder BEFORE you search.

Secondary Sources: Finding Books

LC subject headings. Start with a good hit; tricky, e.g., Commonwealth (Organization) -Constitutional law -- Digests and Administrative law-Commonwealth countries-Digests both assigned to Law Reports of the Commonwealth Customary lawNigeriacases WorldCat (books) via our catalogue, http://gull.georgetown.edu/ Other law library catalogues around the world: theyre free!!

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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

To request books

Direct Borrow from Main Campus

You can directly request items from

Georgetowns other libraries by clicking the link asking that the book be held at the circulation desk.

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 results dynamically and thus will not generate results via Google SSRN-LSN Social Science Research Network, Legal Scholarship Network (working papers)http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/DisplayJournalBrowse.cfm Law Reform Commission Worldwide (U. of Cambridge), http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/resources_reform.php

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

University of Minnesota frequently-cited treaties,

http://www.law.umn.edu/library/tools/pathfinders/most-cited.html Global Studies Law Review, Washington University, http://law.wustl.edu/Publications/WUGSLR/Archives/2005Update/cit ationmanual.html A Citation Manual for European Community Materials, 2d Annual Edition, Fordham International Law Journal, http://www.fordham.edu/law/pubs/filj/citeman.htm Oxford Standard Citation of Legal Authorities 2002, http://denning.law.ox.ac.uk/published/oscola.shtml

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