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LLM Research Guide

This is a guide to help LLM students who are doing class assignments or research papers.

Current Awareness

  • Current topics
    • Law360 (internet/Lexis)
    • Factiva (OhioLINK research database that focuses on news and wire sources)
    • BlommbergBNA newsletters
  • Law Reviews -- start with a scholar.google.com search -- this will link to law review articles via HeinOnline and scholarly articles via JSTOR.
    • Plus: quick and easy
    • Minus: newest full-text articles may not be available
      • for newest articles, try
        • secondary sources on Lexis or Westlaw
          • ATLEAST51("international adoption") will only retrieve articles that mention that phrase 51 or more times.
        • Legal Collection (OhioLINK research database) 
          • can search by keyword and/or subject heading (and/or article author or article title) for more precise results
          • can retrieve both longer and shorter legal articles
            • option to search for only scholarly (peer-reviewed), longer articles
            • can restrict by date (e.g. articles after 2015)
  • Major Treatises (via Lexis or Westlaw)
    • U.S. scholarly works, written by experts, frequently updated, point to relevant primary resources and provides context.
    • This guide provides links directly to Lexis or Westlaw online treatises for various U.S. legal topics
  • OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center (current, interdisciplinary, full-text journal articles)

 

Business Source Alumni Edition

  • Campus-wide access
  • Resource available to CWRU alumni

Designed for the business research needs of post-college professionals, Business Source Alumni Edition provides current information from essential business magazines and journals.

Business Source Complete (EBSCOhost)

  • OhioLINK provided resource

Indexing and abstracts for scholarly, peer-reviewed business and business law-related articles back to 1886. Many full-text articles. Searchable, cited references for more than 1,200 journals.z