Tech Check Research Guide
This page is designed for use by staff members of the six journals published at Boston University School of Law. For questions specific to the journal for which you are working, please contact your editors.
The library provides a range of circulation services for law journals and journal staff. The training schedule 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. To facilitate source-gathering, the Journal Staff Research Portal includes numerous links for primary and secondary materials in PDF format.
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 and Portals, and a list of Electronic Resources A-Z, which includes commercial databases and web sites of interest to legal researchers. In particular, note the following:
- 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 international legal research, see the guides on International Legal Research, Asylum, Immigration & Refugee Law, European Union Research, and Introduction to Foreign Legal Research.
- To research the law of foreign jurisdictions, consult the Foreign Law Research Guidefor suggested starting points and links to sources for dozens of nations. Another good starting place is the Foreign Law Guide (by Reynolds and Flores), which provides helpful information on resources for most countries, including major legal publications and topical information.
Contact a reference librarian for help with any questions you have about research strategies, locating items in the library or using electronic resources.
Guide maintained by David Bachman