Research
Resources
Lexis
& Westlaw | Library
Collections | Computer
Support Current
Awareness Services Lexis
& Westlaw
To find primary and secondary sources of law
for the U.S. and some international and foreign jurisdictions in
electronic form, use Lexis and Westlaw via the web, or use the
software installed on your computer.
A faculty password is required.
For Lexis & Westlaw training and passwords:
contact Kincaid Brown (647-1529; kcb@umich.edu).
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Library
Collections
The
Law Library and other University of Michigan campus libraries
provide access to book and microform research collections, as well
as electronic resources. Access to collections is provided
through the online catalogs of each of the three University of
Michigan libraries.
Online
Catalogs
To
find books, microforms and electronic resources on campus, use the
three University of Michigan online catalogs:
Links
to each of the online catalogs are available from the Law Library
and other campus library web pages.
Web
Pages and Electronic Resources
The
libraries on the University of Michigan campus provide a wide
variety of electronic resources, from full text journals to indexes
and other finding aids. These
resources may be found by searching the online catalogs of the three
University of Michigan library systems listed above, and by using
the links to resources available from the web pages of each
library:
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Computer
Support
For
help setting up your office computer to use research resources,
contact the Law School Information Technology Dept. by email to: lawcomphelp@umich.edu.
Or,
use the online work request form at:
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Current
Awareness Services
Current
Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP)
This weekly email service
provides topical access to approximately 500 law reviews and legal
journals, and full tables of contents of all journals indexed.
To sign up for CILP, contact Diane
Fichter by email (dfichter@umich.edu) and ask her to add you to
the CILP email group.
SmartCILP
This customized version of
CILP provides weekly email delivery of portions of CILP focusing on
the subjects and journals you select.
Sign up for SmartCILP and set your user profile on the web
at:
http://lib.law.Washington.edu/CILP/sCILP.html
Select �Create or change a
SmartCILP profile� and fill in the on-line user profile form.
Please contact the Barb Garavaglia (764-9338; bvaccaro@umich.edu)
for the authorization code. You
may change your profile at any time on the web by filling out the
web form again.
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