Tech Check Research Guide
This page is designed for use by staff members of the six journals published at Boston University School of Law. Thus, it will not necessarily reflect the editorial policies and practices of a particular journal. For questions specific to the journal for which you are working, please contact your editors.
The training schedule for Fall 2008 includes tech check research sessions and advanced research sessions on Lexis and Westlaw for incoming staff members.
Consult these basic research tips for guidelines on using library resources in your tech check work. A Research Portal provides a starting place for research and quick links to sources that can help with much of your electronic source gathering. Detailed information on library circulation services for law journals and journal staff is provided here.
The following pages may be especially helpful for journal staff members:
- The Bluebook for Law Journal Members
- Locating Books
- Locating Articles
- How to Prepare Your Note, Cert. or Seminar Paper
- Interlibrary Loan
- Law School Computing Information
ILJ staff: see the guide for International Law Journal Tech Check Training.
The Law Library's web site provides a variety of Legal Research Guides, including research basics and topical guides, and an Alphabetical List of Electronic Resources that includes commercial databases and web sites of interest to legal researchers.
- For locating U.S. legal materials, see the guides on Federal Legal Research and Massachusetts Legal Research, which include information on research tools for statutes, regulations, case law, court rules and legislative history.
- For legal research outside the U.S., see the guides on Foreign Law Research Guide and International Legal Research, and the following topical or instructional guides: Asylum, Immigration & Refugee Law; European Union Law; and Introduction to International & Foreign Legal Research.
- To research the law of foreign jurisdictions, the Foreign Law Guide (by Reynolds and Flores) provides helpful information on resources for most countries, including major legal publications and topical information.
- Many other research guides are also available to assist with specialized research with specific materials or with select topics.
The reference librarians are available to help you with any questions you have about research strategies, locating items in the library or using electronic resources. You can stop by the reference desk, contact the reference librarians via e-mail, or call 617-353-3151 and ask to speak with a reference librarian.
Guide maintained by David Bachman