Quick Guide to Cite Checking
Note: Many of these links will only work within Anheuser-Busch Hall.
Books: Search the Catalogs
The following chart provides links to online catalogs. For materials not available on campus, an Interlibrary Loan request needs to be made.
| Catalog/ Web Site Address |
Loan Period | Renewals? | Request Delivery Time | |
| Law Library - http://catalog.wustl.edu/ search~b1o1c1i1a1/ |
varies | yes | n/a | |
| WU Hilltop Libraries - http://catalog.wustl.edu/search~/ |
60 days | six times | 3 days | |
| Missouri Research Libraries (MOBIUS)- http://searchmobius.org | 3 weeks | two times | 5-7 days | |
| WorldCat (over 40 million items) http://firstsearch.oclc.org/FSIP |
depends | maybe | 2-3 weeks use this link |
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Tools for locating U.S. Government Documents
Generally, most federal documents are housed in our Government Documents collection on Level 2. They are shelved by SuDoc number, which organizes the material by issuing agency. Please see a reference librarian if you have any problems finding the material.
| Source | Coverage | Notes |
| Marcive WebDocs http://www.marcive.com/ scripts/webdocs.dll |
1976-present | Indexes all federal documents distributed through Federal Depository Library Program. |
| Monthly Catalog of Government Publications GP 3.8 [Gov't Docs Level 2] |
1885-present | Indexes all federal documents. |
| Cumulative Title Index to United States Public Documents. GP 3.8/2 x:789-976 [Gov't Docs Level 2] |
1789-1976 | Title index to federal documents. |
| Congressional Universe http://web.lexis-nexis.com/ congcomp |
1970-present | Indexes Congressional publications (some available full-text). Only available in A-B Hall. |
| Congressional Indexes 1789-1972 http://web.lexis-nexis.com/ congcomp |
1789-1972 | Indexes Congressional publications. |
| FIRSTGOV http://www.firstgov.gov/ |
varies | FirstGov is a public-private partnership government website to provide the public with easy, one-stop access to all online U.S. Federal Government resources. |
| Google UncleSam | varies | Google's search engine, focussed only on those sites that have the .gov suffix. |
Seeking Law Journal Articles
Current law journals are held behind the circulation desk. After they are bound, they are shelved on the 5th floor.
| Source | Coverage | Location |
| Index to Legal Periodicals | 1981-present | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehostlaw&defaultdb=lft |
| Index to Legal Periodicals | 1916-present | Reading Room K9 .N32 or http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehostlaw&defaultdb=lpr |
| LegalTrac | 1980-present | http://find.galegroup.com/menu/commonmenu.do?userGroupName=wustl_law |
| Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals | 1985-present | http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Index?collection=iflp |
Miscellaneous sources
| Source | Location | Use |
| Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations | Reserve KF246 .B5 1993 | Deciphering a citation. |
| NewsBank | http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=UNAB | Provides access to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications. |
| Indexmaster | http://www.indexmaster.com | Searches the table of contents and indices for thousands of legal treatises. |
Locations of major collections in the Law Library and at Olin
| Source | Library | Location |
| National and Regional Reporters | Law | Level 5 |
| State Primary Materials | Law | Level 1 |
| Federal Government Documents | Law | Level 2 |
| Federal Government Documents | Olin | Level 2 |
| United Nations Publications (1946-1993) | West Campus | West Campus |
| United Nations Publications (1990-present) | Olin | Microforms |
Other Useful Databases
| Source | Coverage | Notes |
| Westlaw http://lawschool.westlaw.com |
varies | Provides access to over 13,000 databases, including information from Dow Jones Interactive. |
| Lexis-Nexis http://lawschool.lexis.com/ |
varies | Provides access to over 22,000 sources, with significant coverage of local newspapers. |
| Law School's Databases http://law.wustl.edu/Library/pages.aspx?id=7813 |
varies | Provides access to all the databases available at the Law School. |
| Expanded Academic Index http://infotrac.galegroup.com/ itweb/wustl_eai |
1980-present | Over 1900 journals indexed in every major academic discipline. Many full-text articles available. |
| OCLC Databases http://firstsearch.oclc.org/FSIP |
varies | Over 50 different databases covering a wide variety of subject areas. |
| Statistical Universe http://web.lexis-nexis.com/statuniv |
1973-present | Indexing and partial full-text access to over 100,000 statistical publications. |
| Google http://www.google.com |
varies | A Google search has websites with information relevant to your search. |
| Northern Light http://northernlight.com/ |
varies | Delivers results from the Web and their Special Collection™ of over 7100 full-text publications not otherwise available to Web searchers |
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