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Books in Our Collection are listed in the听.听

Faculty should request delivery of books in our collection by completing our听Law Library Book Concierge form.

To recommend or request new book titles, subscriptions or other resources for possible acquisition by the Law Library, please contact听Steve Elkins听or a听liaison librarian.

无码专区 Falvey Library (Main Campus Library)

Law faculty have full borrowing privileges at the university鈥檚听

Book borrowing at Falvey may be done in person using听听service.听Faculty can also set up a proxy so that their liaison or RA may borrow for them-contact your liaison听for more information.
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Inter-Library Loan

Materials not available at 无码专区 can be obtained from another library. Inter-Library Loan requests may be made by using听this form听or emailing听Mary Jo Heacock.

The law library offers a number of services to keep faculty informed about new publications and developments in their areas of interest.

Monthly Acquisitions List

A list of all new acquisitions can be found听.

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Alert Services

Many faculty subscribe to email alerts in particular subject areas. The听liaison librarians听can recommend services to best suit faculty interest. Popular options include:

• SmartCILP听鈥� an electronic version of听Current Index to Legal Periodicals, subscribers set up a profile in particular subject areas and receive weekly emails announcing newly published law review articles.
  
• Our law library subscription to SmartCILP is through听. Contact your听liaison听for assistance. Faculty may also setup their own alerts by going here and putting in their 无码专区 email without the law domain. Ex: name@villanova.edu.

To manage your existing SmartCILP notificaitons follow these instructions:

1. Log in to your MyHein account.

2. Once logged in, click the "Manage SmartCILP Notifications" tab.

3. Checked boxes represent your current notification settings. To add notifications for any topics, subjects, or journals, select the corresponding box. To remove a notification, deselect the blue check mark.

4. Click Create/Update to save your changes.

• Westlaw,听Lexis,听Bloomberg, and many other services allow researchers to set up searches to run at regular intervals and to designate an email address to receive the results. Contact your听liaison听for recommendations and assistance.

• SSRN听鈥� Our Law School鈥檚 subscription to SSRN allows faculty to sign up to receive notification of new posting in areas of interest to them. The library adds new faculty to our institutional account at the beginning of each semester. For further information, please contact听John Cannan.
  
  
• News & Legal News - News alerts and subscriptions to services such as听Legal Intelligencer, New York Times, Law360, & WSJ are available for Faculty. See the Law Databases page or your liaison for more information.听

Faculty Scholarly Publication Decisions

There are a number of sources that faculty find useful in making decisions about where to submit and publish their scholarship. These sources include:

• (submission preferences/requirements by 205 journals) by Rostron & Levit
•  (by various factors) from Washington & Lee
•  (2007) by Jarvis & Coleman
• Annotated  from WashLaw
• List of  from FindLaw
• Scholastica - contact the Associate Dean for Faculty Research & Development for access.

Faculty Working Papers and Publications

Most law faculty post drafts of their papers and links to their publications on SSRN (Social Science Research Network) and SelectedWorks.

• Create or access your  account

• Create or log into your  account

The liaisons assist faculty in creating and updating their SelectedWorks and SSRN sites. Please contact your liaison for further information.

The Law Library also maintains a repository of and assists with updating publications in faculty's Activity Insight account. Published something recently? Please send it to Michael Pratt for inclusion in the repository and Activity Insight.

Librarians are available for research and consultation Monday - Friday during the school year and summer. Contact your liaison or reference@law.villanova.edu to set up an appointment.

A Library Orientation is offered to all new faculty and staff. To schedule an orientation, please contact John Cannan.

New faculty will receive account access information for Bloomberg Law, Lexis, and Westlaw via email automatically. Staff who would like accounts for these services should contact reference@law.villanova.edu

RA Pool

The library has a pool of RAs to assist faculty with short-term research projects, usually requiring less than 8-10 hours. For these projects, the RA reports directly to the professor and may consult with a professional librarian. To inquire about the availability of a library RA, please contact听John Cannan.

Faculty are encouraged to inform听John Cannan听when a new RA is hired. We provide new RAs with information on library services and review the work habits of a successful RA. A group RA orientation is held at the beginning of the summer and individual sessions are provided in the fall and spring semesters. The orientation includes materials in these readings:

• _{Mark E. Wojcik,听听Student Lawyer, Vol. 36, No. 1, p. 35, September 2007}

Law faculty have access to a number of databases through individual accounts or links on our law databases page. In addition, we have access to all the databases provided through the .

Liaison Librarians can recommend databases that may be useful for a particular research project AND offer individual training on particular databases.

The 无码专区 Law Library Scanning Service is available to 无码专区 Law faculty and staff.听 Scanned items are delivered electronically in PDF format within two business days of the request.听 Please contact Mary Jo Heacock with your request at听heacock@law.villanova.edu. 听The following limitations apply:

Copyright:听

• 1 article per issue
• 1 chapter per book听or听10% of a publication -whichever has fewer pages

Articles are provided for academic purposes, including private study or research. Permission of the copyright owner may be required for other use.听It is the responsibility of the requestor to comply with all applicable copyright laws.

Other:

The 无码专区 Law Library is unable to provide archival quality scans.

The 无码专区 Law Library reserves the right to decline to scan an item from our collection that is fragile or brittle.

To request photocopies or printouts of statutes, cases, articles or other materials available in the Law Library or the University鈥檚 Falvey Library, contact your liaison. Note that for large requests, the liaison will assist administrative support staff in locating the materials and will review options for self-printing or use of the Copy and Distribution Center. Large requests typically take a few days to complete.

Teaching Materials Guide

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Textbook Exam Copies

Please see our听 for our current list of account reps by publisher.
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Course Packets

We can assist in seeking permission for copyrighted materials. See the 无码专区 copyright policy. Contact Amy Spare for assistance and more information.
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Course Reserves

Books in our collection may be placed on Reserve for short-term check out, in-library use only. Please let your liaison know your reserve requests for the upcoming semester and confirm availability of any Reserve titles currently mentioned in your syllabus.

Past Exams

Faculty may make old exams available to current 无码专区 Law students electronically. Contact the听Richard Wack听to add an exam to the听.听

Many courses have paper requirements or drafting exercises. Librarians are available to guest lecture to introduce students to class subject-specific resources. Topics we have presented on include:

• administrative law
• bioethics
• business ethics
• fact investigations
• family law
• immigration law
• insurance law
• intellectual property
• international arbitration
• international law
• medical malpractice
• statutes and legislative history
• tax law

Law librarians can create web research guides or handouts that recommend and describe resources related to class assignments. For example, see this guide for the听听class.听Liaisons听can provide further information.

For assistance obtaining permission to use print or electronic materials in course packets or on Blackboard, contact听reference@law.villanova.edu. Resources that may be helpful in doing a 鈥榝air use鈥� analysis include:

The Law Library has access to recorded streams of Pennsylvania Court oral arguments through the . Many oral argument proceedings from the PA Commonwealth, Superior, and Supreme Courts are available for viewing a few days after they occur. Using this resource, faculty can expose their students to actual appellate proceedings as a part of class, or organize a group viewing of a specific argument during a lunch break. If you are interested in exploring how we can set up a stream viewing for you, please contact your library liaison.