Research Guides: Research Assistant Resources

Use My Record to check due dates, renew material, and check the status of OhioLINK requests.

Use ILLIAD to submit and monitor interlibrary loan requests.

General Information for Summer Research Assistants

Finding Journal Articles

To locate specific law journal:

• OSU Library Catalog
• Moritz eJournal List A list of legal journals available in full-text online

To search for relevant law journal articles:

• HeinOnline [off-campus] Contains vast law journal archive with articles in original image PDF format.
• Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Full-Text [off-campus] Index of U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand legal journals and books from early 1980s to present.
• Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective [off-campus] Index of U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand legal journals from 1908-1981.
• Legal Trac [Drinko Hall only] Index covers legal periodicals from 1980. Includes some full-text.
• LexisAdvance [password required]
• SSRN (Social Science Research Network) Contains scholarly working papers and forthcoming articles in law and other disciplines.
• WestlawNext [password required]

To locate specific academic journal:

• OSU Library Catalog
• OSU eJournal Title List

To search for relevant academic articles:

• Academic Search Complete [off-campus] Multi-disciplinary full-text article database.
• Google Scholar. Includes articles from a variety of fields including law.
• ISI Citation Databases [off-campus] Citations to articles in sciences, social sciences, humanities
• JSTOR [off-campus] Multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections in the humanities, sciences and social sciences
• OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center (EJC)
• Scopus [off-campus] Citations to articles in sciences, social sciences, and humanities
• SSRN (Social Science Research Network) Contains scholarly working papers and forthcoming articles in law and other disciplines.
• More databases at OSU Libraries organized by subject and alphabetically by database name.

Finding Newpaper Articles

To find the availability of a newspaper, search by the full newspaper name in the OSU library catalog or one of the eJournal lists:

• OSU Library Catalog
• OSU eJournal Title List & Moritz eJournal List

To search for relevant articles, start with one of the specific databases:

• America's Newspapers - Ohio [off-campus] [Selected Articles in Full Text] Includes Toledo Blade (1/1/96-present), Cincinnati Post (4/1/90-12/31/2007), Dayton Daily News (1/1/90-present), Cleveland Plain Dealer (6/1/91-present) and Columbus Dispatch (7/16/85-present)
• Factiva [off-campus] Wide coverage of variety of newspapers across country and world, including the Wall Street Journal
• LexisAdvance [password required]
• Proquest Historical Newspapers [off-campus] - New York Times (1851-2009), Chicago Tribune (1849-1989), Washington Post (1877-1996)
• WestlawNext [password required]
• Full list of newspaper databases from OSU Libraries

View a list of newspapers available in microform at the OSU Libraries. Use the Library Catalog to find the location of the microfiche or microfilm.

Finding Books

To find a book, search by the book's title or author in the following catalogs.

• OSU Library Catalog (OSU library system)
• OhioLINK (all Ohio academic libraries)
• WorldCat [off-campus] (academic libraries around the country)

Moritz Databases

These are some of the more popular databases available throught the Moritz Law Library. For additional databases, see the Research Databases, Journals and Periodicals page on our web site.

• Bloomberg Law [password required] U.S. primary law, company information, case documents, etc.
• Bloomberg BNA [off-campus] provides a subject list of all products included in BNA All subscription, including Corporate, Employment and Labor, and Tax libraries.
• CCH Intelliconnect [off-campus] Provides access to state and federal tax laws, reporters, news and other related materials
• Checkpoint [off-campus] Database containing tax law resources
• HeinOnline [off-campus] Contains law journals, the Federal Register, U.S. Treaties, classic legal treatises, U.S. Reports , U.S. Attorney General Opinions, and much more.
• LLMC Digital Online [off-campus] A digital collection of primary & secondary legal materials. Includes decisions from some federal agencies and many official case reporters. A growing collection of common law abroad materials includes materials from British Canada, and India.
• U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 [off-campus]is a digital archive that contains select Supreme Court records for the specified time period.

Federal Legislative History Materials

• GPO (Government Printing Office) links to Congressional Hearings and Reports in PDF from the 104th Congress (1995-1996) to the present
• HeinOnline Federal Legislative Histories [off-campus]
• ProQuest Congressional [off-campus]
• Thomas [Library of Congress] includes bill summary and status dating back to the 93rd Congress (1973), the Congressional Record since the 101st Congress (1989) and committee reports from the 104th Congress (1995)

Citation Format

• Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations is a database of legal citations.
• Introduction to Basic Legal Citation
• The Bluebook is available in the Moritz Law Library Reserve Room. KF 245.M35
• Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations is available in the Moritz Law Library Reserve Room KF 246 .B46 2009. Use Bieber's to decipher an unfamiliar abbreviation.

Links to Local Library Web Sites

• Capital University Law School Library
• Columbus Metropolitan Library
• Supreme Court of Ohio
• State Library of Ohio

InterLibrary Loan (ILL)

Once you've exhausted the resources available at Moritz Law Library, The Ohio State University Libraries, OhioLINK, and other local libraries, you may request the material through ILLIAD. If you are still unable to obtain the material, please submit this completed ILL form at the Reference Desk.

If you have trouble finding page numbers for newspaper articles (ILLs cannot be processed without page numbers), try Factiva [off-campus].