Due Process: Georgetown Law Library Blog

In collaboration with Georgetown's undergraduate library, the law library provides access to Credo Reference, featuring electronic access to hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographical sources and other reference resources from 80 publishers. Some of the ebooks featured include:

• Dictionary of Spanish Law
• Business German Dictionary
• Financial Times World Desk Reference
• Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches
• Marquis Who's Who in America
• National Gallery Image Collection

Credo Reference is searchable by keyword, subject, phrase and date. If you need any assistance making use of this resource, please contact a reference librarian.

This entry was posted on January 12, 2012 at 9:23 AM and has received 693 views. Print this entry.

The Library has added an electronic subscription to Tax Notes Today. Tax Notes Today has daily coverage of Federal tax law changes and policy shifts, special reports, analytical articles, and news concerning Congressional, Treasury, and IRS actions. 

Current faculty and students may subscribe to receive a daily email of Tax Notes Today. Archives of Tax Notes Today are also available --- coverage goes back to 1987.

Tax Notes Today is accessible from the Tax Analysts database.

To set up an email subscription to Tax Notes Today, select "Edit my email profile", then click on "E-Mail Profile" on the following screen. Once you enter your email address, you will have the option of subscribing (or unsubscribing) to Tax Notes Today.

You can also set up daily or weekly email alerts to Tax Notes Today that will notify you of articles discussing particular Code sections or subject areas. 

This entry was posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:21 PM and has received 987 views. Print this entry.

The Law Library has developed a new resource page for a few of the most popular citation managers: RefWorks, Zotero and Mendeley.  These tools can help you collect and manage your research sources, and so, if you’re frustrated with remembering sources and organizing your research, you might look into using one of these tools.

On our resource page, you’ll find a comparison of the tools’ features, information on how well each tool works with the Bluebook, and information on accessing and using each tool.

If you would like more information about citation tools or a personalized training session to determine which tool would be best for you, please contact Jennifer Davitt.

This entry was posted on September 7, 2011 at 9:55 AM and has received 7285 views. Print this entry.

The login process for our catalog system is working again. Access to patron records and off-campus databases has been restored, as well as the ability to request an item.

Thanks again for your patience.

This entry was posted on August 31, 2011 at 6:33 AM and has received 7492 views. Print this entry.

Students, faculty, and staff can get free access to content from the Practical Law Company.  The site offers a number of practical tools organized by topic, including useful overviews; model documents, clauses, and drafting tips; checklists, timelines, and flowcharts; and updates on recent legal developments.  The amount of information available varies by topic.

To sign up for free access, go to PLC for Law Schools and click on “Free PLC Access for Students, Faculty and Staff”.

This entry was posted on August 9, 2011 at 12:08 PM and has received 8546 views. Print this entry.

Members of the Georgetown University Community now have access to Keesing’s World News Archive.

Keesing’s gathers news from around the world each day and synthesizes it into a series of concise articles published each month.  Keesing’s covers a range of significant world events, including “elections and changes of government; wars, treaties, appointments, and diplomacy; terrorism and issues of internal security; legislation, budgets, economic developments and international agreements; actions by the UN and other international organisations; natural disasters, environmental issues, and scientific discoveries.”

Keesing's World News Archive contains Keesing’s Record of World Events (formerly titled Keesing’s Contemporary Archives) from 1931 to present. 

This entry was posted on July 19, 2011 at 2:04 PM and has received 9561 views. Print this entry.

Georgetown's Lauinger Library has recently expanded its access to ProQuest's Digital National Security Archive, adding several new document collections to its subscription.  The archive contains more than 35,000 declassified primary documents that led to U.S. national security policy decisions, and is available to all members of the Georgetown community. The newly added collections include materials related to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the reorganization of the U.S. intelligence community after September 11, 2011.

This entry was posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:54 AM and has received 9592 views. Print this entry.

With coverage beginning in 1945, Congressional Quarterly Almanac provides narrative accounts of every major piece of legislation that lawmakers considered during a legislative session. Congressional Quarterly is arranged by topic and also has full-text searching.

Please note that Congressional Quarterly consists of narrative articles and editorial analyses. It does not contain the primary sources of legislative history (e.g., text of bills, committee reports), but it is a very useful finding aid for identifying these materials.

Congressional Quarterly makes it possible to easily and quickly trace and follow policies through decades of Congresses in a much more streamlined manner than trying to find the same information by using Westlaw, Lexis, or Proquest Congressional. For example, if you were interested in the history of health insurance policy, you could select “Managed care and health insurance” from the “Policy Tracker”, and you will be presented with the entire history of Congressional initiatives on this subject, whether or not they passed.

You can also browse by Congress or topic. Selecting a Congress will provide you with different subjects of legislation that were considered during that term.

Congressional Quarterly also provides various other tools. For example, you can view annual “Presidential Support” tables to see which senators and representatives tended to vote with or against the President, annual examinations of party unity, and voting records.

Congressional Quarterly Almanac’s coverage is from 1945-2009. For more recent material, please utilize CQ Weekly, which is available electronically through GULLiver.

The library has numerous resources available for legislative history and Congressional research.  For more information, see one of our legislative history research guides or contact a reference librarian.

This entry was posted on July 6, 2011 at 10:44 AM and has received 10468 views. Print this entry.

The Georgetown University Law Library recently subscribed to HeinOnline’s Intellectual Property Law Collection.  This collection brings together many useful materials on patent, trademark, and copyright law, including legislative histories, books, federal statutes, regulations and agency materials, and journal articles.  Of particular note are the historical materials, such as previous editions of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure. 

The library has numerous resources available for intellectual property law research.  For more information, see one of our intellectual property law research guides or contact a reference librarian.

This entry was posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:44 AM and has received 10386 views. Print this entry.

The Roper Center's iPOLL Databank is a comprehensive resource for public opinion surveys and polls. Members of the Georgetown Law community can search by keyword, topic, organization or date to retrieve surveys by the Gallup Organization, Pew Research Center, Wall Street Journal and many other research centers. The surveys allow researchers to keep a pulse on the public's perception of everything from defense spending to homeland security to health care and more.

This resource and others are featured in our Policy Research Guide. Should you have any questions about iPOLL, feel free to ask a reference librarian for more information.

This entry was posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:06 AM and has received 10286 views. Print this entry.