PSC 312 - Environmental Law and Policy
Librarian for Political Science : Lynda Kellam
Email: lmkellam@uncg.edu
Phone: 336-334-5251
Finding Case Law
LexisNexis
Academic
"Legal Research" section includes legal news, law review
articles, state and federal case law, state and federal statutory law,
federal regulations, tax law and European Union law
- Select the "LexisNexis Academic" link above.
- If you are off-campus, you will be asked for your E-Spartan username and password. If you are on-campus, you will connect into LexisNexis Academic.
- On the red Search bar at top, select “Legal”.
- On the far right menu, select “Federal and State Cases”.
- Search by keywords, by case citation, or by case name.
FindLaw: Cases and Codes
- Free website for finding federal and state law, U.S. codes, and other legal resources.
- Requires the creation of a free log-in account.
- Best for U.S. Supreme Court opinions.
Cornell University's Supreme Court Collection
- Great source for the basic text of landmark Supreme Court decisions.
- Links to FindLaw if a case is not available.
- Good basic glossary of legal terms.
Finding Full-Text of Scholarly Articles
Finding Scholarly Journal Articles
Academic Search Premier
- Use to find articles from magazines and journals
- Offers full text for over 1,200 academic journals on all subjects.
- Great starting point, but you need to keep going!
Environment Complete
- A comprehensive database integrating resources in the environmental sciences, public policy, and law.
- Indexes more than 1,500 domestic and international titles going back to the 1950s, as well as more than 100 monographs.
- Provides the full text of over 400 journals and 80 monographs.
- More info
GreenFILE (via Academic Search Premier)
- Multi-disciplinary database with full-text and abstracts.
- Covering global warming, energy conservation, natural resources, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
- Scholarly articles, government documents and reports and general interest titles.
- More info
Finding Citations to More Articles
Social Science Citation Index
- Indexes more than 2,100 peer-reviewed social science journals cover-to-cover, providing complete bibliographic data, full-length author abstracts, and cited references.
Finding Books
Library Catalog
- Use to help find books in the library.
- Search using the search connectors AND and OR.
- More about Search Connectors from our Research Tutorial Finding It!
Interlibrary Loan
- For books and articles not available in Jackson Library.
Finding Legal Journal Articles
LexisNexis Academic
"Legal Research" section includes legal news, law review
articles, state and federal case law, state and federal statutory law,
federal regulations, tax law and European Union law.
- Select the "LexisNexis Academic" link above.
- If you are off-campus, you will be asked for your E-Spartan username and password. If you are on-campus, you will connect into LexisNexis Academic.
- On the red Search bar at top, select “Legal”.
- The default screen searches law review articles.
- Search using keywords or search by case name.
- To find a specific case mentioned in the text of an article, you would type: text (Munro w/2 Socialist Workers Party)
- You can also search by keywords.
Finding Congressional Documents
LexisNexis Congressional Universe
- Provides fulltext information published by and about the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
- Useful for locating bills, laws, legislative histories, hearings and more.
The Annotated Bibliography and Bibliographic Essay
Examples of annotations from three annotated bibliographies (PDF)
Questions to consider when writing an annotation:
- What is the main topic and argument of this source?
- What is the author's point of view on this topic?
- What is the author’s bias? How do you know?
- How does the author's argument compare to other articles on this topic? What unique perspective does the author bring to this debate?
What is a Bibliographic Essay? (from Univeristy of Northern Iowa's Professional Writing Program).
Citing Your Sources
Library Guide to Turabian Reference Lists
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