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:

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:

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