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General and Subject-specific Law and Legal materials

Specifically for the study of law and legal matters, this guide is designed to lead students to Reference materials, as well as appropriate call number ranges for these materials in the Main Collection.

 

Reference Books

  • West's legal thesaurus / dictionary. 1985. Reference 340.03 St29w
  • Oxford international encyclopedia of legal history. 6 volumes. 2009. Reference 340 Ox22L
  • Legal systems of the world: A Political, social, and cultural encyclopedia. 4 volumes. 2002. Reference 340 L52K
  • Deskbook encyclopedia of employment law. 1995. Reference 344.01 D46
  • Copyright Revision Act of 1976: Law, explanation, committee reports. 1976. Reference 346.0482 C73c
  • Ferdico's criminal law and justice dictionary. 1992. Reference 345.73 F34f
  • Encyclopedia of sexual behavior and the law. 2006. Reference 346.04346 M24e
  • Religion and American law: An Encyclopedia. 2000. Reference 342.73 R382r
  • Deskbook encyclopedia of American school law. 1997. Reference 344.73 D46
  • New encyclopedic dictionary of business law, with forms. 1981. Reference 346.07 R73n
  • Children, young adults, and the law: A Dictionary. 1998. Reference 346.73 A74c

 

 

Electronic Resources

Finding Journals to Browse or Search

  • List of Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers
    This is the place where you can identify journals and other periodicals that we have either in Print or available electronically. You can search by title keyword (i.e., "law" for any journal with Law in the title). You can also browse by subject to see all journals available that relate to Law. Here are all journals within the subject of Law that are available through the Zondervan Library.

Find Articles and other online materials

  • LexisNexis Academic--Legal
    LexisNexis provides a plethora of resources, but you can hone in on the Legal materials by choosing their Legal tab (red, near the top of their home page). This will allow you to search many United States, as well as international law materials including not only the law text, but also reviews and comments. To the Left you'll find a menu that let's you specifically focus on Federal and State Cases, Federal and State Codes, Tax Law, and many other areas.
  • CQ Weekly Report
    Also check out this weekly publication regarding Actions and Reactions in Congress. Provides sections on bills to watch, other perspectives on current events, as well as trends and forecasts in government, commerce, and politics.
  • JSTOR
    This archive of journals lets you search a particular group of related subject journals. For the Law subject, there are 62 journals that you can search inside for your topic. Many are law reviews. Be sure to limit to the Law section of journals only (On the Advanced Search page).

 

 

Web Resources

  • HG Worldwide Legal Directories
    Provides a plethora of legal resources from a directory of laws and lawyers in over 200 countries to identifying law schools, etc. In the lefthand menu, under International Law, the link for Laws for 230 countries offers law and government information resources for countries in alphabetical order.
  • Legal Information Institute (Cornell U)
    The LII is known internationally as a leading "law-not-com" provider of public legal information. We offer all opinions of the United States Supreme Court handed down since 1992, together with over 600 earlier decisions selected for their historic importance, over a decade of opinions of the New York Court of Appeals, and the full United States Code. We also publish important secondary sources: libraries in two important areas (legal ethics and social security) and a series of "topical" pages that serve as concise explanatory guides and Internet resource listings for roughly 100 areas of law.
  • Global Legal Information Network
    A public database of official texts of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations. These GLIN members contribute the full texts of their published documents to the database in their original languages. Each document is accompanied by a summary in English and, in many cases in additional languages, plus subject terms selected from the multilingual index to GLIN. All summaries are available to the public, and public access to full texts is also available for most jurisdictions.



Other Research Tools

  • Credo Reference
    A conglomeration of specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias that allows you to search for definitions and encyclopedia articles, as well as develop ideas for expanding or refining a research strategy.
  • Oxford Reference Premium Online  
    Oxford University Press produces a number of extremely useful reference materials, many of which they have made available here. You can search by keyword, but you can also choose particular subjects and from there, particular books within which to search. This willl provide you with all sorts of background and broad spectrum information on a particular topic.
  • Biography Resource Center  
    Find background information about people, authors, famous personalities, and others. Search by first or last name. 


Citation Help

One of the least favorite aspects of research papers are the citations, documenting the sources where you gleaned your information. To make that a little easier, the Library offers a few resources.

  • The Citation Style Guide is a place where you can find call numbers for print Style Manuals and Handbooks, as well as online help from several different universities around the States. Check it out and see if it helps!
  • RefWorks
    is a Citation Management program. Fully available online, and linked from the Library's home page, it allows you to keep it all ELECTRONIC. Download your citations from the various databases you're using into RefWorks. This program will create the Works Cited page for you with little effort. In a database, look for the option to EXPORT - that is where you'll find this gem of a program.
  • Automatically Generated Citations can be found in our Library Catalog (to the right of the item on the Results page), as well as in most EBSCO databases (like Academic Search Premier, PsycINFO, Communications and Mass Media Complete, etc.). Most databases either provide an instant citation in a couple of different styles, or they allow Exporting to RefWorks (see above). Ask a Librarian for more help in managing your citations and creating your bibliographies and works cited pages faster.
  • WorldCat.org
    "Cite this item" within individual item record lists the citation in APA, MLA, Chicago and more.
  • The Writing Center is also a solid resource. Available in the Library, this is run by the English department. If you'd like face-to-face help individually with citing or any aspect of writing and editing your paper, the Writing Center is the place to go. For more information, see their page on the Portal, or you can contact them at writingctr@taylor.edu.

 

Created by Lana Wilson, Reference Librarian

Last revised October 26, 2009 - 03:46 PM