Advanced Legal Research

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
- Carl Sagan -

Library Catalog: to find Books and Treatises
- Search by Keyword
- Search By Title
- Search By Author
- Library Catalog Functions
  - Extended Display: to get call number
  - Brief Display: to get short citation list
  - Save Marked Records: select citations to create a customized list
  - View Saved: to go to list
  - Export Saved: to email or download customized list
  - View and Request: to request resources to be checked out
  - Start Over: to do a new search
  - Sort Reverse Year: to sort lists that are not in reverse chronological order
  - CU Law: to search CU Law Library catalog
  - Penrose: to search the Main Campus Library catalog
  - Prospector: to search other library catalogs
Databases/Indexes
- All Databases
  - Advanced Search: advanced searching by keyword, title, or author
  - Create customized lists of citations to email or download
  - Key Word Search: a broad search
  - Title Search: a narrower search
To Find Books and Treatises
- FirstSearch
  - WorldCat – a worldwide library catalog
- e-Books on EBSCOhost- thousands of online books
- Gale Virtual Reference Library - books on topics such as biography, business, education, history, law, and social science
To Find Law Reviews, Bar Journals, and working papers

Legal Trac – Cites to articles published in all major law reviews, law journals, and legal newspapers.
- Some full text
Index to Legal Periodicals - Cites to articles from 1908. Full text for 270 journals.
- EBSCOhost Web
- Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
- Some full text
Hein-On-Line - Journal articles from over 1500 journals
Legal Scholarship Network - abstracts of working papers and articles

Gale Legal Forms - Colorado legal forms
BNA (Bureau of National Affairs) - Looseleafs, treatises, reports, journals and newsletters.
- See Arranged by Subject
Environmental Law Reporter - Federal, state, and international materials.
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Digital Library - Proceedings from RMMLF Institutes.
Codes of Ethics Online - of professional societies, corporations, government, and academic institutions

To Find Federal Statutes, Current Legislative Information, and Legislative History Documents

ProQuest Congressional (formerly LexisNexis Congressional) – Comprehensive Legislative Information from Congressional Information Service, Inc.
- Congressional Publications
- Bills, Laws & Regulations – full text of proposed legislation and its status in the legislative process.
- Members & Committees – information about current members and congressional committees
- Inside Washington – National Journal and Congress Daily
- Hot Topics in Congress
- Hot Bills under Consideration
- Hot Bills enacted this Congress
- Hot Topics
US Congressional Documents
- Congressional Record

Archive of the Americana - local and world news
- Access World News
  - Colorado
- America's News Magazines
Business Source Premier - Full text of more than 2,800 scholarly business publications
- EBSCO Host Web

ProQuest - Criminal Justice periodicals, dissertations & these; Wall Street Journal; Historical New York Times; and Psychology Journals
JSTOR - Full text of almost 300 core scholarly journals in arts and sciences, ecology, and botany.
IngentaConnect– database of current article information taken from well over 17,000 multidisciplinary journals. The database has good local coverage because it is linked to the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries.

Shepard's Citations - available only at the Library Public Terminals
CALI – Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction tutorials
- Password - learnthelaw
Lexis
Westlaw
Lexisone.com – Small firm research service
Loislaw.com – independent web-based research service

Einstein's three rules of work:

Out of clutter find simplicity.
From discord make harmony.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

- Albert Einstein -