The librarians can help you with locating items for research, understanding what has been written on a topic (both in law and other fields), and helping you stay up to date on your areas of research interest. For the quickest research assistance email lawfacultyservices@colorado.edu
The Library also has a Library RA Pool. Resident faculty can make use of Library RAs for discrete research projects. The RAs work under the supervision of the librarians. Contact Michelle Penn if you have a project for the Library RA Pools. Please also contact Michelle if you would like to recommend a student for the RA Pool.
The law librarians are available to discuss research projects with research assistants and assist them in locating resources. Formal trainings for RAs are offered in mid-May, but RAs may reach out to librarians for assistance at any time by contacting lawfacultyservices@colorado.edu
Faculty and staff have individual accounts for legal research platforms Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg and Checkpoint. If you need to set up accounts for any of these platforms, contact michelle.penn@colorado.edu
For help subscribing to SmartCILP alerts and/or any other alert service such as Bloomberg, Westlaw, or Lexis alerts, email lawfacultyservices@colorado.edu
New books purchased by the library can be viewed here. You can receive new book alerts based on subject areas of interest. To receive or change your existing new books subject areas, contact lawfacultyservices@colorado.edu,
The University Libraries has a variety of agreements with different publishers to support Open Access publishing including Cambridge University Press journals. Read more about University Library support for OA publishers here. Unfortunately, Law faculty are excluded from Norlin Library's Open Monograph Fund, unless they have a joint appointment with another department.
The law library has a citation counts tracking service for faculty. In early January, faculty with publications will be sent an overview of their citation counts on Google Scholar & Westlaw. Hopefully, this information will be useful to include while working on your annual review. If you would like additional citation counts or have questions about this service, please contact Michelle Penn.
