FACULTY SERVICES
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Each faculty member is assigned a professional librarian as a liaison. The liaisons can answer reference questions, assist with database usage, help locate materials, train research assistants, provide information about library services and generally support research activities.
鶹 Law staff may emailreference@law.villanova.edu or contact any of the reference librarians directly.
Research Resources
Books in Our Collection are listed in the.
Faculty should request delivery of books in our collection by completing ourLaw Library Book Concierge form.
Please contact Mary Jo Heacock or a liaison librarian to recommend or request new book titles, subscriptions or other resources for possible acquisition by the Law Library.
鶹 Falvey Library (Main Campus Library)
Law faculty have full borrowing privileges at the university’s.
Book borrowing at Falvey may be done in person usingservice.Faculty can also set up a proxy so their liaison or RA can borrow for them. Contact your liaisonfor more information.
Inter-Library Loan
Materials not available at 鶹 can be obtained from another library. Please use the to make a request or contact your liaison.
The law library offers several services to keep faculty informed about new publications and developments in their areas of interest.
Monthly Acquisitions List
Alert Services
Many faculty members subscribe to email alerts in particular subject areas. Theliaison librarianscan recommend services to best suit faculty interest. Popular options include:
- SmartCILP: an electronic version ofCurrent 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. Contact yourliaisonfor assistance. Faculty may also set up their own alerts through HeinOnline by entering their 鶹 email without the law domain. Ex: name@villanova.edu.
To manage your existing SmartCILP notifications, follow these instructions:
- Our law library subscription to SmartCILP is through. Contact yourliaisonfor assistance. Faculty may also set up their own alerts through HeinOnline by entering their 鶹 email without the law domain. Ex: name@villanova.edu.
- Log in to your MyHein account.
- Once logged in, click the "Manage SmartCILP Notifications" tab.
- The checked boxes represent your current notification settings. Select the corresponding box to add notifications for any topics, subjects or journals. Deselect the blue check mark to remove a notification.
- Click Create/Update to save your changes.
- Westlaw,Lexis,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 yourliaisonfor recommendations and assistance.
- SSRN: Our Law School’s subscription to SSRN allows faculty to sign up to receive notification of new postings in their areas of interest. The library adds new faculty to our institutional account at the beginning of each semester. For further information, please contactJohn Cannan.
- News & Legal News: Faculty can subscribe to news alerts and services such as Legal Intelligencer, New York Times, Law360 and WSJ. For more information, see the or contact your liaison.
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
- Annotatedfrom WashLaw
- List offrom FindLaw
- Scholastica - contact theAssociate 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 youraccount.
- Create or log into youraccount.
The liaisons assist faculty in creating and updating their SelectedWorks and SSRN sites. Please contact yourliaisonfor further information.
The Law Library also maintains a repository of and assists with updating publications in the faculty's Activity Insight account. Published something recently? Please send it to Michael Pratt for inclusion in the repository and Activity Insight.
Scholarship Support Services
Librarians are available for research and consultation Monday–Friday during the school year and summer. Contact your faculty liaison or reference@law.villanova.eduto set up an appointment.
A library orientation is offered to all new faculty and staff. To schedule an orientation, please contactJohn Cannan.
New faculty will automatically receive account access information for Bloomberg Law, Lexis, and Westlaw via email. Staff who would like accounts for these services should contact reference@law.villanova.edu
Library 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 contactJohn Cannan.
Faculty RA Orientation and Training
Faculty are encouraged to informJohn Cannanwhen 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, 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. In addition, we have access to all the databases provided through the.
Liaison librarianscan recommend databases that may be useful for a particular research project AND offer individual training on particular databases.
The 鶹 Law Library scanning service is available to 鶹 Law faculty and staff. Scanned items are delivered electronically in PDF format within two business days of the request. Please contact Mary Jo Heacock with your request. The following limitations apply:
Copyright:
- 1 article per issue
- 1 chapter per bookor10% 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 uses. It is the requestor's responsibility to comply with all applicable copyright laws.
Other:
The 鶹 Law Library is unable to provide archival-quality scans.
The 鶹 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’s Falvey Library, contact yourliaison. 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 Support Services
Teaching Materials Guide
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Textbook Exam Copies
Please see our for our current list of account reps by publisher.
Course Packets
We can assist in seeking permission for copyrighted materials. See the 鶹 copyright policy. Contact Amy Spare for assistance and more information.
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 the availability of any Reserve titles currently mentioned in your syllabus.
Past Exams
Faculty may make old exams available electronically to current 鶹 Law students. Contact Richard Wackto add an exam to the.
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, the class guide.Liaisonscan provide further information.
| Database Name | Link Creator |
|---|---|
| Westlaw | Look for the "copy page URL to clipboard" chain link icon at the top of the page or document that you wish to link to. A dialogue box will appear, click on the blue "copy link" button and then paste as usual. |
| Lexis | Look for the "Link to this page" icon. |
| HeinOnline |
Use the "permanent link to this page" button and select "Off-Campus/Remote Access" link. |
| PLI Plus (onlaw databases) |
Use the "permalink" icon to link to a specific version of a coursebook/treatise, or use the "Ever Current" link to link to the homepage for that coursebook to ensure access to the most recent edition each time it is updated. |
| Create a permalink using. |
For assistance obtaining permission to use print or electronic materials in course packets or on Blackboard, contactreference@law.villanova.edu. Resources that may be helpful in doing a ‘fair use” 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 yourlibrary liaison.
Academic Year Reference Hours:
Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
For evening and weekend assistance, email reference@law.villanova.edu. Messages are typically handled by the reference librarians within 24 hours.
Reference Librarians are available for individual appointments via phone, email or Zoom. For contact information, see the Library Staff Directory.