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Faculty Research Databases
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Submitting Law Review Articles
Law School & Law Review Rankings
Call for Papers, Conferences, Symposia
Copyright & Publisher Information

Faculty Research Databases

Off campus access to many of these databases is available to the law school community. You may be prompted to input your 14 digit barcode number (located on the front of your Mercer Bear Card) to access a database remotely. For assistance, contact your librarian liaison.

ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct
Antitrust & Trade Regulation Reporter (BNA)	Full-text articles, cases, and other supporting legal documents relating to competition and deceptive trade practices law. Covers federal, state, and international law. To sign up for BNA Highlights E-Mail alerts, click here and select "BNA news service" link.
Bankruptcy Law Reporter
CALI Lessons	Collection of over 625 interactive tutorials in 32 areas of law. The first time you visit the site, you must register using Mercer's authorization code. Contact your librarian liaison or the Reference Desk (301-2334) for the code. Create your own password. Once registered, access CALI with your email and your password and click on "Login."
Casemaker	Georgia cases and other primary sources freely available to Georgia state bar members. Mercer law faculty have access to this expanding legal research service. Please contact your librarian liaison or the Reference Desk (301-2334) for the Mercer bar number and password.
CCH Internet Tax Research Network	Current and retrospective primary and secondary sources for Federal and State Taxation (including Standard Federal Tax Reporter and CCH Federal Tax Service). Click on "Enter" under "Log In" in left frame.
Chronicle of Higher Education	Password protected for faculty use. Contact your librarian liaison or the Reference Desk (301-2334) for the authorization code.
CIS Lexis Congressional	Includes federal legislative history materials, bills, bill tracking, public laws, federal regulations, and information about members of Congress.
Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS)	An online archive provided by the University of North Texas Libraries of searchable, full-text CRS reports that have been available on a variety of different websites since 1990. Includes subject access. The Open CRS Network, a project of the Center for Democracy & Technology, also provides convenient access to CRS reports that are already in the public domain.
CQ Researcher Online	Provides in-depth and up-to-date coverage of today's most important and controversial topics, including social, economic, political and environmental issues.
Criminal Law Reporter (BNA)	Full-text articles, cases, and other supporting documents relating to federal and state criminal law. To sign up for BNA Highlights E-Mail alerts, click here and select "BNA news service" link.
Current Index to Legal Periodicals - CILP	CILP provides topical access to the most recent issues of over 475 law reviews and legal journals. It provides the full table of contents of all journals indexed. A major advantage to using CILP is that it is available 4-6 days earlier than other commercial legal periodical indexes. It is available in HTML, PDF or Word format. The HTML version allows a direct link to the cited articles in full text on Westlaw and Lexis. See SmartCILP instructions if you wish to receive, via e-mail delivery, a weekly citation list of new scholarship in your areas of interest.
Daily Labor Report
eBrary	eBrary provides access to over 30,000 electronic versions of printed books.
Electronic Commerce & Law Report
Employment Discrimination Report
Environment Reporter (BNA)	Full-text articles, cases and significant proposed, new and amended federal and state laws, rules and standards. To sign up for BNA Highlights E-Mail alerts, click here and select "BNA news service" link.
Family Law Reporter (BNA)	Full-text articles, cases, and other supporting legal documents relating to federal and state family law. To sign up for BNA E-Mail Highlights alerts, click here and select "BNA news service" link.
Federal Resources	Extensive collection of federal online resources from Mercer Law Library.
Galileo	A statewide resource which offers hundreds of academically-oriented databases. Includes access to full text articles from various disciplines through Academic Search Premier (at EBSCO host) and ProQuest. Use the A - Z directory on Galileo's home page to find these two databases. Other resources include encyclopedias, business directories, government publications, and reference sources. Contact your librarian liaison or the Reference Desk (301-2334), to obtain the password for full remote access.
Georgia Resources	Extensive collection of Georgia online resources from Mercer Law Library.
Health Law Reporter
HeinOnline	Retrospective digitized images of full text coverage for over 800 legal journals. Many now have current coverage. Check here before requesting off site retrieval of older law review articles. Coverage also includes digitized images of the Federal Register 1936-August 2006; Code of Federal Regulations 1938-1983, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents 1965-2006; U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1754 (more than 30,000 decisions); U.S. Attorney General Opinions; U.S. Treaties and Agreements (over 20,000 in-force treaties to which the U.S. is a party); U.S. Statutes at Large 1789-2004; the European Center for Minority Issues, the U.S. Presidential Library, the Philip C. Jessup Library, Legal Classics (contains over 1,000 seminal treatises), English Reports, Full Reprint, 1220 - 1865, World Trials, and State Session laws.
Index to Legal Periodicals 1908- present u ILP Retrospective 1908 - 1981 u ILP Full-Text 1982 - present	Index to Legal Periodicals indexes articles from over 1,000 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Annual surveys of the laws of a jurisdiction, annual surveys of the federal courts, yearbooks, annual institutes, and annual reviews of the work in a given field or on a given topic are also covered. Full-text of selected journals back to 1994 is included. Researchers can search the ILP Retrospective 1908-1981 and the ILP Full-Text 1982 - present at the same time or separately.
IndexMaster	IndexMaster is a searchable database of the indices and/or tables of contents of thousands of legal titles from a variety of legal publishers, including ALI-ABA, Kluwer, Lexis, West, etc.
Intellectual Property Library (BNA)	Includes United States Patent Quarterly (1st series from 1946 and 2d series), patent and trademark laws, regulations and manuals.
International Trade Reporter
Issues in Legal Scholarship	Provides a forum for discusson of seminal articles and important issues in legal scholarship, available through Berkeley Electronic Press.
Jurist	Academic gateway to legal instruction and scholarship online.
JStor Arts & Sciences	An archival, multi-disciplinary full text source for scholarly journals.
Labor and Employment Law Library (BNA)	The electronic version of BNA's Labor Relations Reporter. To sign up for BNA Highlights E-Mail alerts, click here and select "BNA reference library" link.
Law Professor Blogs Network	Law Professor Blogs, sponsored by Foundation Press and Thompson West, is a network of blogs designed to assist law professors in their scholarship and teaching. There is also a link to a Law Librarian blog in right frame. An additional blog, PrawfsBlawg, is sponsored by Aspen. RSS feeds are available on both these blog sites, and both are searchable by keyword. For a list moderated listservs for law professors, see News Sources & Listservs on law library's Current Awareness web page.
Legal Scholarship Network(LSN)	Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) is a division of the Social Science Research Network. LSN publishes electronic journals consisting of working and accepted papers, author contact information, and conference announcements.
Lexis	LexisNexis online legal research service for faculty and students.
LexisNexis Web Course System	Description on how to set up a LexisNexis Web Course system through Mercer Curriculum Support web page.
LLMC Digital	Full-text historical and current materials from the U.S. federal legislative, executive and judicial branches as well as Canadian materials (gaps in coverage). Also includes an extensive collection of both primary and secondary military law materials.
Medical Literature on the Internet	Excellect guide on researching medical literature on the Internet, including PubMed, National Library of Medicine Gateway (NLM), MEDLINEplus, Medscape, a state medical board directory and directory of licensing agencies.
MEDLINEplus	Free online access to medical resources.
PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records)	PACER provides access to case and docket information for Federal Appellate, District and Bankruptcy courts. Contact your librarian liaison or the Reference Desk (301-2334) for the password.
Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal
RIA Checkpoint	Full-text tax and accounting materials. Includes the complete federal tax code, regulations, committee reports, and rulings. Also contains the Federal Tax Coordinator, U.S. Tax Reporter, Federal Tax Handbook, a news/current awareness section, as well as state tax cases, rulings, and legislation.
Securities Regulation and Law Reporter (BNA)	Full-text articles, cases, and other supporting documents relating to securities and future trading. To sign up for BNA Highlights E-Mail alerts, click here and select "BNA news service" link.
Tarver Library A - Z eJournal Locator	The "A-Z eJournal Locator" on Mercer University Tarver Library's home page is a single source online locator which finds all the inter-disciplinary journals available through the University Library's various databases.
Theoretical Inquiries in Law	Specializes in the application to legal problems of insights developed in other disciplines, such as moral and political theory, cognitive psychology, epistemology, economics, and probability theory. Available through Berkeley Electronic Press.
TWEN	Description on how to set up Westlaw TWEN through Mercer Law Curriculum Support web page.
UN Treaty Collection	Includes more than 30,000 treaties, and is searchable by subject, name, date, or parties. The generic username is <treaties> and the generic password is <12345>. At the home page, scroll down to bottom of page and click on "Access to Databases."
U.S. Law Week (BNA)	Full-text articles, cases, and other supporting legal documents covering significant cases and key legislative/regulatory and pre-decisional developments. This database also contains a link to Surpeme Court Today, which provides daily updates, allowing users to view the status of and search summaries of certiorari petitions filed since the 1995 October Term. The database also contains the full text of Supreme Court opinions, oral argument schedules, selected oral argument summaries, annual reviews of the Court's decisions, and more. To sign up for BNA Highlights E-Mail alerts, click here and select "BNA news service" link. Additional e-mail delivery and alerts for pending and recently decided U.S. Supreme Court cases are listed on the law library's Faculty Current Awareness web page.
Web of Science	An index of more than 8,000 science, social sciences, arts, and humanities journals, with complete bibliographic data, abstracts, and cited references. Includes Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index: 1991 - present.
Westlaw	Westlaw online legal research service for faculty and students.
White Collar Crime Report
WorldCat	Online catalog of library holdings nationwide, available through Galileo.

Submitting Law Review Articles

Legal Scholarship Network

Legal Scholarship Network (part of the Social Science Electronic Publishing Network) is a free service that allows you to submit a paper to over 300 law reviews that allow electronic submission. You can send customized messages to each journal, and to submit to different journals at different times. To use eSubmission, you must first include your paper in the SSRN elibrary.

ExpressO

For a fee, Berkeley Electronic Press provides electronic submission of articles to over 550 law reviews. A journal that does not currently accept electronic submission may be contacted through this service for an additional fee. Please note that Mercer University Law School does not currently maintain an institutional subscription to ExpressO but individuals may subscribe independently. With an individual account, you can electronically submit articles. Click here for step-by-step instructions and FAQ about the submission process.
Notes:
ExpressO provides a list of law reviews that are temporarily full and not accepting submissions.
ExpressO 2007 survey of legal scholars who used the submission service in 2006.
ExpressO 2006 Top 100 Law Reviews.


Law Journal Submission Information

The basic purpose of this site is to allow authors to find journals by subject, country, or journal rank (where available), to display journal editorial information, and to facilitate an author's submissions to those journals. To date, there are 128 journals that could simultaneously be emailed. No subscription is required for electronic submissions of articles. Website created and maintained by John Doyle, Associate Law Librarian at Washington and Lee Law School Library.


Emory Law School's Chart on Current Law Review Article Length Limits and Preferences for the top 35 most cited general U.S. legal periodicals.

Law Library of Congress Law Reviews Online

Only electronic law journals and other periodicals providing substantial amounts of legal analysis are included. Listings include those sites offering free and complete access to the full text of articles and notes. Journals which offer only promotional information, tables of contents, or abstracts are omitted.


Electronic Submission of Law Reviews (Chase College of Law)

Provides a list of law reviews which accept electronic submissions. Site also enables email submissions to multiple law reviews.

NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository

The NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository provides a free and persistent point of access for working papers, reports, lecture series, workshop presentations, and other scholarship created by faculty at NELLCO member schools. Powered by Berkeley Electronic Press technology, the aim of the NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository is to improve dissemination and visibility of a variety of scholarly materials throughout the academic and legal research communities.




Bepress Legal Repository

A recent website from Berkeley Electronic Press which posts working papers and other materials from law schools, institutes, research centers, conferences and think tanks. Law schools can set up a collection of working paper series to be posted on this site for a fee. Suffolk, Cornell, Yale and Boston law schools are currently offering papers through this service.

Jurist Legal Intelligence - Law Reviews

Jurist includes submission information, tables of contents and more.

LexisNexis Directory of Law Reviews and Scholarly Legal Periodicals

A comprehensive listing of law reviews and legal periodicals compiled by Professor Michael H. Hoffheimer, University of Mississippi. The site also includes a directory of University Presses. In addition, articles about law reviews are located under the "Sources" link.



Concurring Opinions provides occassional articles discussing law reviews.


Tips on Publishing from Columbia Law School.


Google Scholar

Information about Google Scholar





Findlaw's Directory of Law Reviews

Law School & Law Review Rankings

U.S. News & World Report Law School Rankings 2009
Analysis of biggest moves in U.S. News Report Law School Rankings 2007 - By Tax Prof Blog.


Leiter's Law School Rankings Website

Designed as an alternative to the U.S. News & World Report ranking of law schools, this site seeks to provide a knowledgeable guide to the best law schools based on faculty quality, student quality, teaching quality and job placement. This website is a service of Law Professor Web Services, LLC, parent limited liability company of the Law Professor Blogs Network.

Leiter's Most Cited Legal Scholars by Speciality, 2000 - 2007

In each specialty, the list gives the “ten most cited” or “twenty most cited” faculty (for larger areas).
On his web page, Leiter explains that the list is not exhaustive, but concentrates on areas that are
"well-defined or especially important/prominent, and sometimes both.

Leiter's Top 35 Law Faculties Based on Scholarly Impact 2007

Leiter's Law School Rankings: Faculty Quality Based on Scholarly Impact, 2005 (corrected version 2006) .



Other Ranking Articles from Leiter's Law School Ranking website.


ABA Journal 2008 article: The Rankings Czar: Law Deans hate Bob Morse's rankings. He'd like their help to make them better.

Prof. Brian Leiter's An Open Letter to Bob Morse of U.S. News (March 2008)

Call for Papers, Conferences, & Upcoming Symposia


Legal Scholarhip Network (LSN) Call for Papers and Conferences

Legal Scholarship Blog - This blog is a collaborative effort from faculty and staff at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and the Gallagher Law Library at the University of Washington School of Law. The blog features calls for papers, conferences, and workshops, with links to relevant websites and papers and it also contains an event calendar.

Upcoming Symposia - A list of current and upcoming symposia compiled by Professor Rick Bales, Salmon P. Chase College of Law.

- upcoming AALS workshops and conferences 2008-2009

Copyright & Publisher Information

Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., the largest licenser of text reproduction rights in the world, was formed in 1978 to facilitate compliance with U.S. copyright law. CCC provides licensing systems for the reproduction and distribution of copyrighted materials in print and electronic formats throughout the world. The company currently manages rights relating to over 1.75 million works and represents more than 9,600 publishers and hundreds of thousands of authors and other creations. The Center also provides an online permission service.

USG Office of Legal Affairs: Guide to Understanding Copyright & Educational Fair Use

This guide to the TEACH Act, a result of the work completed by the University System of Georgia Committee, provides illustrative examples of fair use and legal background of copyright law.

USG Office of Legal Affairs: Distance Education - The Regents Guide to TEACH Act (Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act) - Excellent site for distance education questions and the TEACH Act, enacted in November 2002 as an amendment to the Copyright Act of 1976.

A Copyright Checklist for Online Courses

This checklist provides professors with information to determine whether they can use copyrighted materials in their online courses without seeking the author's permission.

Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center

Stanford University's web page provides a wide range of discussions pertaining to fair use, website permission and the public domain.

When Works Pass Into the Public Domain

A concise table from Univeristy of North Carolina simplifying the issue of when a copyright work is no longer covered by copyright restrictions based on its date of publication.

Copyright Resources Online

A comprehensive website from Yale University Library which provides links to copyright resources and information.




Publisher Directories and Information

Alibris - rare books, out of print books, new and used (use this site if book unavailable on Amazon).

AbeBooks - rare books, out of print books, new and used (use this site if book unavailable on Amazon).


AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors - an international directory of publishers and vendors used by libraries with links to publisher Web sites and email addresses. It is primarily maintained for the benefit of the library community, in particular, acquisitions, collection development and serials librarians, but can be helpful to faculty as well.



American Association of Law Libraries - List of Legal Publishers and Vendors

Includes a Divested Titles List which identifies current publishers of titles whose original publishers have ceased to exist. Also includes Corporate Affiliations of Legal Publishers.

University Press Catalogs

Web page provides links to the catalogs of university presses from the Association of American University Presses.

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Last modified: 12/07;4/08