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Pathfinder
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research guide from the Meyer Library Reference & Government Department
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Find Articles and Basic
Reference Information
Magazine and journal indexes and other reference databases.
To access from off campus, most of the databases listed here will require a Missouri State University Windows Account User ID and Password. More information about off-campus access
Online Indexes to Articles
LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Academic is an interdisciplinary, full-text database of several thousand news, business, legal, and biographical sources. The "news" section includes over 350 newspapers, 300 magazines and journals, 600 newsletters, wire services, transcripts of broadcasts, and nearly 300 college/university papers. "Business" sources include business and financial news, U.S. and international company financial information from government or private sources, market research, industry reports, and actual SEC filings. "Legal" includes primary source materials such as case law, statutes, and regulations, including Shepard's citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789, as well as all federal and state courts. It also includes law review articles from over 500 publications, and patents from 1971 forward. "People" includes biographical information for persons, both alive and deceased. In addition to news, business, legal and biographical information, LexisNexis Academic provides access to medical information, including medical news and medical & health journals. Abstracts from medical journals dating to 1966 are provided in the National Library of Medicine's Medline database. Country information on over 190 countries, with business and political risk analysis, as well as the World Almanac are other selected resources found in this database.Print Indexes in the Meyer Library Reference Collection
The title links here will show you the SWAN library catalog record which gives the Meyer Library holdings of the print title.Index to periodical articles related to law (1958 – Winter 2000)
MSU Meyer Ref KF8 .I53xIndex to legal periodicals
MSU Meyer Ref K9 .N32
Index to legal periodicals and books
MSU Meyer Ref K9 .N32
General/All Purpose Indexes & Full Text Databases:
The following indexes and databases do not provide the in-depth coverage for studying Legal as the indexes above. They do cover a variety of subjects and topics across multiple disciplines and provide good general indexing of magazines, newspapers, and core academic journals. In addition they provide full text articles from many of the sources cited.EBSCOhost. Enter EBSCOhost Web and select the appropriate database for your research.
FirstSearch. Either jump to the database you need to search, or under Databases on the menu bar to the left click “List All” and select the appropriate database for your research.
LexisNexis Academic. Full-text newspapers! Also includes business, legal research, and reference areas.
Oxford Reference Online. An e-reference book collection of over 100 of Oxford University Press’s central English and bilingual dictionaries, usage, quotations, and subject reference books.
CQ Researcher, FACTS.com, SIRS Researcher, JSTOR, Project Muse
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Selected Journals in
the Library
The title links will take you to TDNet
which is the Libraries' tool for locating journals regardless of their format—electronic,
print, or microform. Once in TDNet, click on the links to locate journals online,
or click on the check box to locate journals in print and microform. This
is NOT a complete list of all relevant journals in the Missouri State University
Libraries’ collection for this field. If you are looking for a particular
title, then use TDNet
as your starting point.
Harvard Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review
Harvard International Law Journal
Law and Policy in International Business
Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal
Saint Louis University Law Journal
University of Chicago Law Review
University of Kansas Law Review
Villanova Sports & Entertainment Law Journal
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Recent Books
in the Meyer Library Collection
The title links will take you into SWAN, the Missouri State
University Libraries catalog, to view publishing information and complete citation.
The citation record will also display the Library of Congress call number used
to arrange many of the books in this subject area. You can use the call number
to browse the shelf for similar materials.
Bartee, Alice Fleetwood. Privacy
rights : cases lost and causes won before the Supreme Court. Lanham, Md.
: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2006.
MSU Meyer General KF4749 .B337 2006
Colker, Ruth. The
disability pendulum : the first decade of the Americans with Disabilities
Act. New York : New York University Press, 2007.
MSU Meyer General KF480
.C648 2007
Eisgruber,
Christopher L. Religious
freedom and the constitution. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,
2007.
MSU Meyer General KF4783
.E355 2007
Guantanamo Bay
and the judicial-moral treatment of the other / edited by Clark Butler. West
Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press : Published in cooperation with
the Institute for Human Rights, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort
Wayne, c2007.
MSU Meyer General HV6432
.G825 2007
Klosek,
Jacqueline. The
war on privacy. Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007.
MSU Meyer General K3263
.K56 2007
Law and the
sacred / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and
Martha Merrill Umphrey. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
MSU Meyer General K3280
.L395 2007
Maltz,
Earl M. Dred Scott
and the politics of slavery. Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas,
c2007.
MSU Meyer General KF4545.S5
M35 2007
Mezey,
Susan Gluck. Queers
in court : gay rights law and public policy. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers, c2007.
MSU Meyer General KF4754.5.Z9
M49 2007
Nemacheck,
Christine L. Strategic
selection : presidential nomination of Supreme Court Justices from Herbert Hoover
through George W. Bush. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007.
MSU Meyer General KF8742
.N46 2007
Ross,
William G. The
chief justiceship of Charles Evans Hughes, 1930-1941. Columbia : University
of South Carolina Press, c2007.
MSU Meyer General KF8745.H8
R67 2007
Saito,
Natsu Taylor. From
Chinese exclusion to Guantánamo Bay : plenary
power and the prerogative state. Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado,
c2007.
MSU Meyer General KF5060
.S25 2007
Weber,
Mark C. Disability
harassment. New York : New York University Press, c2007.
MSU Meyer General KF480
.W43 2007
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Reference Books at
Meyer Library
The title links will take you into SWAN, the Missouri State University
Libraries catalog, to view publishing information and obtain the Library of
Congress call number used by Meyer Library to arrange reference materials. Reference
materials are non-circulating items.
Ready Reference Books
Black's
law dictionary 8th edi.
MSU Meyer Ref Desk KF 156.B53 2004
Bluebook: a uniform
system of citation 17th edition
MSU Meyer Ref Desk KF245.B58
Dictionary of
legal abbreviations used in American law books
MSU Meyer Ref Desk KF246.B46 1985
Find public records
fast: the complete state, county & courthouse locator
MSU Meyer Ref Desk KF8700.A19 F56 2000
Guidelines
for educational use of copyrighted materials: designed for educators and librarians
in the higher education setting
MSU Meyer Ref Desk KF3020.G85 1997
How to prepare
a legal citation
MSU Meyer Ref Desk KF245.M34 1986
Official guide
to ABA-approved law schools
MSU Meyer Ref Desk KF273.A87
Official LSAT
MSU Meyer Ref Desk KF285.Z9 O34 2001
Legal Reference Books in the Library Collection
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias – General Law
Black’s law
dictionary
MSU Meyer Ref KF156 .B53 1999
Bouvier’s law dictionary
MSU Meyer Ref KF156 .B6x 1934
Dictionary of English
law (1959)
MSU Meyer Ref KD
Dictionary of
law
MSU Meyer Ref KD313 .C87 1998
Dictionary of
modern legal usage
MSU Meyer Ref KF156 .G367 1995
Dictionary of
selected legal terms
MSU Meyer Ref KF156 .J39 1996
Encyclopedia
of law and economics vol. 1-5 (The history and methodology of law and
economics, civil law and economics, the regulations of contracts, the economics
of public and tax law and the economics of crime and litigation)
MSU Meyer Ref K487 .E3 E53 2000
Guide to American
law: everyone’s legal encyclopedia
MSU Meyer Ref KF156 .G77
Judicial dictionary
of words and phrases
MSU Meyer Ref KD1x .S7 1953
New Palgrave
dictionary of economics and the law
MSU Meyer Ref K487 .E3 N48x
West’s encyclopedia
of American law
MSU Meyer Ref KF 154 .W47 2004
Media law dictionary
MSU Meyer Ref KF2750.A68 M87
Nonprofit law
dictionary
MSU Meyer Ref KF1388 .A68 H66 1994
General Reference and Indexes
Age discrimination
MSU Meyer Ref KF390. A4 E34
Current law index
MSU Meyer Ref K33 .C87
Index to legal
periodicals and books
MSU Meyer Ref K9 .N32
Law library reference
shelf: annotated subject guide
MSU Meyer Ref KF1 .M33 1996
Martindale-Hubbell bar register of preeminent lawyers
(see LexisNexis)
Master research
guide; a desk book correlating all the law title, and the subjects therein,
of the major law digests, encyclopedias and like publications, together with
other pertinent information, presented in a single alphabetical series (1951)
MSU Meyer Ref KF8 .B4x
Oxford companion
to law
MSU Meyer Ref K48 .W34
Watergate investigation
index
MSU Meyer Ref KF26.5 .P7 1973 Suppl. 3
Criminal Law - Justice
Criminal law
digest
Vol. 1- 2
MSU Meyer Ref KF9210.3.C75 1978
Criminal law digest
MSU Meyer RefKF9214.C75 1983
Cruel and unusual
punishment: rights and liberties under the law
MSU Meyer Ref KF9227.C2 M42 2003
Eyewitness testimony:
strategies and tactics
MSU Meyer Ref KF 9672.E94 1984
Prentice Hall’s
dictionary of American criminal justice, criminology, and criminal law
MSU Meyer Ref KF9223.A68 F35 2005
Right to the
assistance of counsel: a reference guide to the United States Constitution
MSU Meyer Ref KF 9646.T66 2002
Scientific evidence
in criminal cases
MSU Meyer Ref KF9674.M6 1986
Search and seizure:
a treatise on the Fourth Amendment Vol.1-4
MSU Meyer Ref KF9630.L26 1987
Sexuality and
the law: an encyclopedia of major legal cases
MSU Meyer Ref KF 9325.A7 L46 1993
Tree of liberty:
a documentary sourcebook of rebellion and political crime in America
MSU Meyer Ref KF9390.A7 T74 1986
Indians of North America – Legal status, laws and cases
ABC-CLIO companion
to the Native American rights movement
MSU Meyer Ref KF8203.36.G76 1996
Encyclopedia
of American Indian civil rights
MSU Meyer Ref KF8210.C5 E53 1997
Encyclopedia
of Native American legal tradition
MSU Meyer Ref KF8294.E53 1998
International Law
Crimes of war:
what the public should know
MSU Meyer Ref K5301 .C75 1999
Glossary of NAFTA
terms
MSU Meyer Ref KDZ944 .A55 F68 1994
Rights of women:
a guide to the important United Nations treaties for women’s human rights
MSU Meyer Ref K644 .R54 1998
Labor & Employment Law
CCH
NLRB decisions (1966-1986)
MSU Meyer Ref KF3362.A261 U58
Deskbook encyclopedia
of employment law (current year)
MSU Meyer Ref KF3314.D47
Fair employment
practices cumulative digest and index and table of cases (1983-1998)
MSU Meyer Ref KF3464.A5142
Labor cases
Vol. 52-103
MSU Meyer Ref KF3310.A2 L3
Missouri Law
Digest of the decisions
of the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri
MSU Meyer Ref KFM7845.1.B3x 1821-59
Cumulative supplement
to the revised statutes of the State of Missouri, 1994 Vol. 1-4 1999
MSU Meyer Ref KFM7830 1994 .A2 Suppl
Laws of Missouri
(session laws)(1838-43, 1847-2004)
MSU Meyer Ref KFM7825
Methods of practice
1953-2001
MSU Meyer Ref KFM7880.M5
Missouri cases
reported in South western reporter 2d
MSU Meyer Ref KFM7847.M5x Vol.1-998
Missouri
court rules Vol. 1-3
MSU Meyer Ref KFM8329.A192 2007
Missouri decisions
reported in the Southwestern reporter Vol.1-300
MSU Meyer Ref KFM7847.M49x
Missouri digest;
covering cases from state and federal courts Vol.1-32
MSU Meyer Ref KFM7847.1.A3x
Missouri employment
discrimination
MSU Meyer Ref KFM8131.M573x 2000
Missouri limited
liability company forms and practice manual
MSU Meyer Ref KFM8007.5 .A65 S34
(also Computer disk X473 in Media Collection)
Missouri school
law
MSU Meyer Ref KFM8195.A3 M57 2003
Missouri tax reporter
Vol.1-2
MSU Meyer Ref KFM8270.A65 M52x
Missouri tax reporter:
transfer binder, new matters (1953-1995)
MSU Meyer Ref KFM8270.A65 M57x
Missouri worker’s
compensation law Vol. 1-2
MSU Meyer Ref KFM8142.M62
Reports of cases
argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the state of Missouri (vol.1
[1821]-vol.196 [1906] and index)
MSU Meyer Ref KFM7845.A2x
Revised statutes
of the state of Missouri Vol. 1-20
MSU Meyer Ref KFM7830.A2x
Shepard’s Missouri
citations Vol.1-2, Suppl.
MSU Meyer Ref KFM7859.S5 1963
Shepard’s Missouri
citations: cases Vol.1-3
MSU Meyer Ref KFM7859.S5 1987
Shepard’s Missouri
citations: cases (pt.1-pt.3)
MSU Meyer Ref KFM7859.S5 1994
Shepard’s Missouri
citations: statutes (current through June 2005)
MSU Meyer Ref KFM7859.S52 1994
Vernon’s annotated
Missouri statutes Vol. 1-42A, 2005 General Index, Vol.1-2)
MSU Meyer Ref KFM7830.A413
Vernon’s Missouri
session laws (2002-03)
MSU Meyer Ref KFM7825.A2
Vernon’s annotated
Missouri rules: Supreme Court rules [1 – 102] (vol.1-3)
MSU Meyer Ref KFM8358.A39 M5x
West's Missouri
cases reported in South western reporter 3d Vol.1-62
MSU Meyer Ref KFM7847.M5x
West’s Missouri
law finder (2005)
MSU Meyer Ref KFM7861.M58
Tax Law
Internal revenue
acts (1966 – 2004)
MSU Meyer Ref KF68 .W41x
Internal revenue
code: complete text with index (1989 – 2005)
MSU Meyer Ref KF68 .W4x 1971
Shepard’s/McGraw-Hill
tax dictionary for business
MSU Meyer Ref KF6287.M56x 1994
Tax court reporter
(1965-2000)
MSU Meyer Ref KF6280.C65 1965
United States code
annotated: Tax Reform Act of 1986
MSU Meyer Ref KF6289.U54x 1986
U. S. tax cases
(1934/35-2001a)
MSU Meyer Ref KF6280.A2 C63
West’s federal
tax research
MSU Meyer Ref KF241.T38 W47 2000
United States Constitution
Constitution of
the United States: background, analysis, and bibliography
MSU Meyer Ref KF4541.A2 C66 2003
Constitutional
rights source book
MSU Meyer Ref KF4550.Z9 R463 1999
Encyclopedia
of the American Constitution Vol.1-6
MSU Meyer Ref KF4548.E53 2000
Encyclopedia
of constitutional amendments, proposed amendments, and amending issues,
1789-1995
MSU Meyer Ref KF4557.V555 1996
Supreme Court
review (1960-2003)
MSU Meyer Ref KF4546.S9
United States Constitutional Law – Supreme Court Decisions
Constitutional
law dictionary Vol.1-2 & vol.1 of supplements 1-3
MSU Meyer Ref KF4548.5 .C47 1985
Landmark briefs
and arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States: constitutional law
MSU Meyer Ref KF101.9 .A3x L3
Landmark briefs
and arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States: constitutional law.
Opinions volume
MSU Meyer Ref KF101.9 .A3x L32
Landmark supreme
court cases: a reference guide
MSU Meyer Ref KF4549.L455x 1999
Mass media and
the Constitution: an encyclopedia of Supreme Court decisions
MSU Meyer Ref KF2750.A7 H58 1989
Oxford guide
to the United States supreme court decisions
MSU Meyer Ref KF4548.O97 1999
Shepard’s federal
citations
MSU Meyer Ref KF105.2 .S42
Shepard’s federal
statute citations
MSU Meyer Ref KF78 .S56
Supreme court
of the United States, 1789–1980: an index to opinions arranged by justice
MSU Meyer Ref KF101.6 .B57 1983
United States
supreme court decisions, an index to excerpts, reprints, and discussions
MSU Meyer Ref KF101.6 G83 1983
United States
supreme court decisions, 1778-1996: an index to excerpts, reprints, and discussions,
1980-1995
MSU Meyer Ref KF101.6 G83 2001
United States Supreme Court - Encyclopedias, biography,
judges, law and politics
Biographical encyclopedia
of the supreme court : the lives and legal philosophies of the justices
MSU Meyer Ref KF8744
.B56 2006
Encyclopedia
of the U. S. supreme court Vol. 1-3
MSU Meyer Ref KF8742.A35 E53 2001
Oxford companion
to the supreme court of the United States
MSU Meyer Ref KF8742.A35 O93 1992
Reference guide
to the United States supreme court
MSU Meyer Ref KF8742.R45 1986
Supreme court
A to Z
MSU Meyer Ref KF8742.A35 S8 1993
Supreme court
compendium: data, decisions and developments
MSU Meyer Ref KF8742.S86 1994
Supreme court
Justices: illustrated biographies, 1789-1995
MSU Meyer Ref KF8744.S86 1995
Legal Research
American jurisprudence;
a modern comprehensive text statement of American law, State and
Federal, 2nd edition
MSU Meyer Ref KF154.A42x
Chambers USA :
America's leading lawyers for business
MSU Meyer Ref KF190 .C43 2004-2005
Effective legal
research: a practical manual of law books and their use
MSU Meyer Ref KF240 .P7
Fundamentals
of legal research
MSU Meyer Ref KF240 .J32 1998
How to use Shepard’s
citations: a presentation of the scope and functions
MSU Meyer Ref KF245 .H69 1984
Legal research
in a nutshell
MSU Meyer Ref KF240 .C54 2000
National survey
of state laws (4th ed. 2003)
MSU Meyer Ref KF386 .N38
Paralegal’s desk
reference
MSU Meyer Ref KF320.L4 A33 1993
West’s analysis
of American law (2005)
MSU Meyer Ref KF240 .W454
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Associations
Organizations of experts, policy makers, and researchers.
General Directory
Scholarly Societies Project from the University of Waterloo Library
http://www.scholarly-societies.org/
ABA Network
http://www.abanet.org
This is the Web site of the American Bar Association and aside from membership
and other functional resources, also serves as a central resource on the law
for both lawyers and consumers.
Legal Services of Missouri
http://www.lsmo.org/Home/PublicWeb
This site provides information on the programs in Missouri which provide legal
help to low income persons. The content is intended for potential clients, social
service providers and other legal service providers.
Missouri Association of Trial Lawyers
http://www.matanet.org/mo/
This searchable site provides current news and legislative information on current
issues in civil case law.
Missouri Bar Association
http://www.mobar.org/
The home page for the Missouri Bar Association features sections not only for
lawyers, but also for teachers and the general public.
Springfield City Attorney (http://www.ci.springfield.mo.us/egov/attorney/staff.html)
This site provides basic information about the department and its personnel,
staff and functions. The drop-down menu content includes city ordinances and
codes, election information and upcoming board agendas.
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Web Sites
Selected web directories to sources and a variety of information
on the Internet.
Law Library Resource Xchange
http://www.llrx.com
LLRX is an innovative Webzine where legal professionals go to keep up on new
trends and key developments reported in its feature articles and regular columns
on legal research, technology and management. Contributors include law librarians,
attorneys and legal technology consultants. Free and updated monthly.
Lectric Law Library
http://www.lectlaw.com/rotu/htm
The ‘Lectric Law Library is one of the more, if not the most, enjoyable legal
reference sites on the Web, described as “maybe the first real virtual law library”
on the Internet. This page is the central hub where researchers will find links
to extensive legal outlines, guides, articles, directories, special features
and other “attractions.” The content of this site defies brief and simple descriptions—it
must be experienced to be fully appreciated. Don’t let the wisecracks fool you;
this site is a gold mine of legal resources.
LegalEthics.com
http://www.legalethics.com
This simple site provides resources and information to help legal professionals
understand the ethical issues surrounding the Internet by tracking state and
local ethics rulings relating to the network technology and resources. The most
current cases and decisions appear on the start-up page. Two query boxes for
searching by category and topic provide research access to this very basic but
user friendly and topical site.
Legal Information Institute
http://www.law.cornell.edu
This site is used by many other Internet legal information sites, such as Law
Guru and Jurist, and is one of the most valuable sites for rich legal content.
Well organized and user friendly, LII offers access to current and historic
court opinions via pull-down menus, key word searching for U. S. Court of Appeals
decisions, and links to the University Law Review Project. The U.S. Code and
CFR are part of the core content of the site.
Oyez
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage
This site focuses solely on significant case opinions in various areas, searchable
from a pull-down list of categories and sub-categories. You can search by title,
citation, subjects or date. Oyez continues to provide an excellent multimedia
U.S. Supreme Court database, as well a database of Supreme Court opinions and
abstracts; for full-text Supreme Court opinions, Oyez links to FindLaw.
Legal Blogs or “Blawgs” Blawg
http://blawg.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=421
“blawg” is a searchable directory of legal news and resource blogs to which
the user may subscribe, or simply access online via the links and read at the
blogger’s site. This site also features information and guidance to reading,
creating and evaluating blogs through a categorized FAQ section. This source
is updated regularly and is an excellent resource for weblogs related to law
and legal information.
Virtual Chase
http://www.virtualchase.com/topics/rss_law.shtml
This location on the Virtual Chase is an extensive resource for locating RSS
feeds for topics related to law and government. Features access to news aggregators,
search tools and XML-based feed directories, allowing the user to select the
best way to obtain the most timely legal news and opinion that fulfills their
needs and interests.
Government Information
http://library.missouristate.edu/resources/govdocs.shtml
This is the government information database link on the Meyer Library home page,
and is an excellent portal to a vast array of state, federal and international
web sites and databases, which include: Missouri Revised Statutes, Code of State
Regulations, FirstGov, and Statistical Abstracts of the United States. The United
Nations link features access to Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs), International
Agencies, and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) web sites and databases.
compiled by Kimberley
Balcos and Willa Garrett | Meyer Library
MSU Libraries | Missouri State University | Updated: August
2007