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Michelle Pearse Librarian for Open Access Initiatives & Scholarly Communication mpearse@law.harvard.edu

Library Tips for Your Research Papers and Getting Published. Michelle Pearse Librarian for Open Access Initiatives & Scholarly Communication mpearse@law.harvard.edu. Finding a Topic. News sources (Westlaw, Lexis, law.com, etc..) BNA

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Michelle Pearse Librarian for Open Access Initiatives & Scholarly Communication mpearse@law.harvard.edu

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  1. Library Tips for Your Research Papers and Getting Published Michelle Pearse Librarian for Open Access Initiatives & Scholarly Communication mpearse@law.harvard.edu

  2. Finding a Topic • News sources (Westlaw, Lexis, law.com, etc..) • BNA http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/research/databases/bna.html • Journal tables of contents services (e.g. Current Index to Legal Periodicals, Current Law Journal Contents, etc..) • Blogs/Blawgs (e.g. Law Professor Blogs Network, Justia Blawg search) • Circuit splits (Circuit Splits blog, Seton Hall Circuit Review, US Law Week (BNA), caselaw searches) • Books (treatises, casebooks, etc..) (search new Hollis, check our library recommendations) • Faculty

  3. Preemption check • Search for journal articles Indexes (Legaltrac, Index to Legal Periodicals (ILP)) Full-text http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/research/journals/index.html • Remember to go retrospectively (ILP Retrospective, HeinOnline) • Other disciplines (http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/research/databases/academic.html) • Working papers (SSRN) • Read authors in field • Treatises

  4. Research consultation with reference librarian E-mail Suzanne Wones (swones@law.harvard.edu)

  5. Managing Your Research • RefWorks (classes monthly) • EndNote • Zotero • Mendeley • Social bookmarks (delicious, Diijo) • Custom portal (kstorin@law.harvard.edu) • CiteGenie (Firefox plugin formats for Bluebook) • Lexis and Westlaw software

  6. Keeping current • RSS/e-mail alerts (e.g. Legaltrac) • Westclip/KeyCite alert; Lexis alert • SSRN subject journal alerts • BNA, CCH Alerts • Law Library new acqs alerts (http://newbooks.law.harvard.edu) • Books in Print alert, Amazon books tag alert

  7. Looking at other students' papers Hollis search (use Hollis Classic Expanded Search) Harvard Law School Third Year Paper as title words and your topic terms as keywords anywhere. Harvard Law School Thesis as title words and your topic terms as keywords anywhere See HLS Dissertations, Theses, and Third Year Papers in the Library at http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/research/guides/

  8. Evaluating journals John Doyle law review submission site Rankings Reputation, visibility, “impact factor”

  9. Submitting your manuscript ExpressO Hard copy/E-mail submissions Time of year Terms

  10. Depositing your paper in repositories • DASH (Harvard’s open access repository) • SSRN • Other working paper websites

  11. Other things to keep in mind Competitions Student prizes Symposia and conferences

  12. Author Rights Negotiate! Sample addenda Pre-prints, post-prints

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