D'Angelo Law Library Guide for Law Journal Students
General Information
Using the D'Angelo Law Library
- Call Number Guide provides floor and range location information for specific call numbers.
- Law Books in Storage must be paged at the Circulation Desk. Ask at Law Circulation appears in the Library Catalog record for titles in storage collections. For access, inquire at the Circulation Desk or use the Paging Form for Law Books in Storage. Some items are in storage pending the opening of the Mansueto Library. Ask a reference librarian for assistance.
- Carrels are assigned by the library staff to each journal. Your editors will assign carrel space to you for cite-checking and other journal projects. Primary law books (case reporters, codes, legislative sets), bound law journals, and non-circulating treatises may be checked out to a carrel. Materials from other campus libraries also may be checked out to carrels. Books obtained on interlibrary loan may not be checked out to carrels.
- Search Forms may be completed using the online form or at the Circulation Desk for items that are not on the shelf and not checked out in the Library Catalog.
- Research Guides are available on the D'Angelo Law Library web page for legislative history, congressional, supreme court, corporate and securities, treaties, intellectual property and other areas of legal research.
Other Campus Libraries
Frequently-Used Resources
- U.S. Resources Available in PDF
- Library Catalog is your starting point for identifying and locating books, treatises and journal titles in the print and electronic collections of the D'Angelo Law Library and other campus libraries.
- Lens is a University of Chicago Library search tool for locating books and other resources in the Library's collections as well as electronic resources licensed by and created by the Library.
- Worldcat is a union catalog containing the holding of thousands of libraries worldwide. Use to determine other libraries that own a resource and for initiating an interlibrary loan request.
- Interlibrary Loan is available for books and articles in journals not owned by the D'Angelo Law Library or other campus libraries.
- Use Worldcat to search for books and journal titles. To request an interlibrary loan, use the
link from the Worldcat record or use the Online Request Form on the Library web page. If you are a first time user, register for the Library's Interlibrary Loan Service and select Law as your department to have requested items sent to the D'Angelo Law Library Circulation Desk for you.
- For books and journal titles owned by libraries in Chicago-area law schools (Northwestern, DePaul, Loyola, John Marshall, Chicago-Kent), ask a reference librarian to initiate an ILL CLAS (Chicago Legal Academic System) request for you.
- HeinOnline includes PDFs of most law journals, as well as PDFs for other major law resources such as United States Reports, United States Statutes at Large, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations and treaty compilations.
- EBSCOHost Academic Search Premier has thousands of multi-disciplinary serials, most in PDF format.
- JSTOR includes a PDF archive of the most significant journals in major academic disciplines, including law; there is an embargo period for recent years for each journal.
- LegalTrac indexes over 900 legal journals, with coverage beginning in 1980 or later depending on the journal; includes abstracts and very occasional full-text coverage.
- BNA Topical Law Databases - BNA is a major publisher of U.S. legal materials, including topical newsletters that summarize recent case law and other developments in areas such as environmental law, intellectual property law and employment law. BNA also publishes United States Law Week, which reports on the activities of the Supreme Court, those lower court decisions expected have a broad and significant impact on the law, and other noteworthy legal news items.
- GPO Access is the U.S. Government Printing Office's site for primary law, such as the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Register and many congressional documents.
Tools for Locating Resources
- Journals Databases page is useful for finding law articles include HeinOnline, Legaltrac, Index to Legal Periodicals and Books, and Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Retrospective.
- Law Databases include LexisNexis, Westlaw, topic specific databases published by BNA and CCH, and a variety of other legal databases.
- All E-journals is an alphabetical listing of journal titles available in databases on campus.
- All Databases is a searchable/browsable list of all database resources at the University of Chicago Libraries.
- Library Collections and Subjects provides links to subject web pages (economics, history, sociology, etc.) created by librarian specialists in other libraries on campus.
Topic Selection and Pre-emption Checking Resources
CJIL (International Law, International Relations, Foreign Law Resources)
