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March 05, 2008
Finding Books (Treatises) for Legal Research
Traditional, print books can be obtained from a variety of sources: the CWRU Law Library or other campus libraries; OhioLINK libraries; or Interlibrary Loan (ILL).
In order to find a book on your topic, try a keyword search on an online catalog. When you find a relevant title, look at the subject headings and click on the hyperlink to find more titles on that subject.
online catalog of the CWRU libraries
OhioLINK catalog (Search over 47 million item at 87 institutions.)
WorldCat (Search over 1 billion items at over 10,000 libraries.)
Interlibrary Loan (Order books not available on campus or via OhioLINK.)
Online books (E-book) (OhioLINK patrons)
CWRU Law students may be able to access Thomson/West publications via Westlaw.
CWRU Law students may be able to access Matthew Bender publications via Lexis.
OhioLINK E-Book Center
ABC-CLIO (reference books)
Oxford University Press (scholarly works) & Oxford Reference Online
NetLibrary
Safari Books Online (IT & computer science) (academic license link, far left)
Humanities E-Book
Project Gutenberg(public domain works
IndexMaster (CWRU Law School students)
Search tables of contents and indexes from multiple publishers.
Use the sources listed above to obtain relevant sources.
Google Book Search
For most titles, only snippets of related text are available.
Tip: search for content/legal argument in IndexMaster or Google Book Search, then order any useful book you find via OhioLINK or ILL, if it is not available at a CWRU library.
Smaller publishers and advocacy groups may place the full-text of their publications on their websites and/or Google Book Search. Use publications of advocacy groups with caution, of course.
Research sources may provide other relevant book titles, which you can search for by title on any of the online catalogs.
Posted by axd10 at March 5, 2008 03:24 AM
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