WestClip and LexisNexis Alert
Faculty liaisons can help set up customized WestClip (Westlaw)
and Alert (LexisNexis) automated clipping service searches
with the results delivered directly to the faculty member
or the liaison librarian willl review the results and forward
selected results to faculty. For more information, please
contact your faculty liaison.
RSS News Feeds
For assitance with setting up RSS feeds, please contact your faculty
liaison.More information on RSS feeds is available in the expanded section on RSS News Feeds
The number of electronic newspapers, journals, blogs, and other internet resources
that send updates to their online content via RSS news feeds is growing rapidly.
RSS, also known as Really Simple Syndication, is a way to receive updates
to websites that offer RSS feeds. To receive updates from an RSS feed, RSS
news reader software is required. For more information on setting up RSS news
reader software and RSS feeds, visit the DOE's FAQ
About RSS web page. For asssitance with setting up RSS feeds, please contact
your faculty liaison. Selected RSS feeds offered
by electronic resources at the library follow.
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View legal news headlines from Jurist,
an automatically updated legal news and research service
of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, on the
library
home page by application of RSS technology. Jurist
offers free RSS
feeds, such as the latest US Legal News, as well as
a free daily legal news digest by email.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education,
the premier daily publication of news, commentary, and
career help for readers in academia, and its sister publication,
The Chronicle of Philanthropy, offer several
RSS news feeds,
including the Daily News, a feed of new headlines available
on The Chronicle website.
Faculty
Liaisons
To view information about a faculty liaison or to see a list of
exams currently on file for a specific faculty member, select
a faculty name from the drop down menu below.
Exams on file are restricted to UM Law faculty, staff and students.
Under the library's liaison program, each faculty member and each course is
assigned a research librarian who can help with requests for research or materials
in support of teaching and scholarship. This help ranges from database searching
and tracking down esoteric materials to handling in-depth research projects
and working with faculty research assistants. Research librarians also offer
customized sessions on use of the Internet and other electronic sources.
The liaison serves as the faculty's first point of contact
with the library. Students who need research assistance may
be directed to contact the liaison. To schedule an appointment,
please contact your liaison.
Suggesting Items
for Purchase
The library purchases materials to support faculty research.
To suggest materials for purchase contact your faculty
liaison. In addition, you may request that the library purchase
copies of materials, including individual volumes of federal
and Maryland codes, for your office. If you are interested in
getting an office copy of a particular title, please contact
Pamela Bluh.
Borrowing
Faculty liaisons assist with
locating and acquiring materials for faculty members.
Thurgood Marshall Law Library
Faculty may borrow many items, subject to recall, from the Thurgood Marshall
Law Library.
Visit the expanded section on Borrowing from TMLL for more information.
All books are subject to recall after two weeks
upon the request of another patron. Faculty members are responsible
for fines for failing to return books owned by the Thurgood
Marshall Law Library when recalled by another patron. The fine
amount is $1.50 per day, $15 dollars maximum. All loan privileges
will be suspended if a substantial number of fines accrue against
an individual’s record. With the exception of one-volume
monographs, items should not be removed from the law school
and should be kept in an office location where they can readily
be found by the library staff if needed by another patron. The
law school faculty has waived the protection that exists under
Maryland state law regarding confidentiality of circulation
records in cases where another law faculty member has the item.
In all other cases, library borrowing records are strictly confidential.
Contact your
faculty liaison to request
materials from TMLL.
Other Libraries
The library staff will place "hold" requests and interlibrary loan
requests for faculty members, if desired. Contact your faculty
liaison or Teresa White to
request materials.
Go to the expanded section
on Borrowing from Other Libraries for further details.
Faculty members are entitled to direct borrowing privileges at fourteen Maryland
public colleges and universities that make up the University System of Maryland
and Affiliated Institutions (USMAI) either by going to the other libraries or
by using the “holds” delivery system available in the Catalog.
Local loan policies and restrictions apply to these transactions. Faculty members
are responsible for fines on materials borrowed from other USMAI libraries.
A library bar code from the Thurgood Marshall Law Library or any other USM library
is required before any materials may be borrowed. Books requested via the "holds"
system will be delivered to our library.
The library provides interlibrary
loan service for items not found in its collection or in
the collections of other USMAI libraries. The library is committed
to providing materials as quickly as possible, but response
time varies depending upon the supplying library. Loan periods
and renewal policies are determined by the lending library.
Faculty members are responsible for fines on the borrowed materials.
Interlibrary loan is critical for faculty research and the library
cannot risk losing borrowing privileges from other libraries
because of a failure to return books. Faculty members who put
the library in the position of delinquent borrower will lose
interlibrary loan privileges.
The library staff will place "hold" requests and
interlibrary loan requests for faculty members, if desired.
Contact your faculty liaison
or Teresa White
to request materials from other libraries.
Photocopy Services
The library has three self-service photocopiers located on level 2 of
the library. The library also offers a photocopy service to support research
and instruction.
Visit the expanded section on
Photocopy Services for more information.
These photocopiers are set up
to operate with a code that has been pre-assigned to faculty
members. Debit cards for use at the University of Maryland,
Baltimore's Health Sciences and Human Services Library are also
available with advance notice. A debit card for microform copying
may be requested at the User Services Desk.
The library also offers a photocopy service to support research
and instruction. Faculty members may request copies of articles
or cases to meet these needs. For a request of up to three items,
the response time is normally one working day. Please contact
your
faculty liaison for more
information.
Research Assistants
With the permission of the faculty member, research assistants may borrow books
in the name of the faculty member and will be assigned a code which they can
use to make copies of library materials for work-related purposes. Forms are
available at the User Services Desk for authorization of any of these privileges.
Research assistants are welcome to contact the faculty
liaisons for help with library-related questions.
Getting It Written:
Drafting and Polishing
Ryan H. Easley Research Fellows
The Ryan H. Easley Research Fellows provide scholarly support to faculty members.
The fellow responds to requests from individual faculty members for assistance
with law review articles and other works of scholarship, including broad and
substantive research, detailed citation checking, and editing for style and
format. Research fellows are available to assist with editing, footnote creation,
citation checking and formatting, and proofreading. While we try to meet everyone’s
deadlines, it is best to give us as much advance notice as possible if you need
work done in a specific time frame. Contact Sue
McCarty, Senior Research Fellow to request the assistance of a research fellow.
Submission to LSN's University
of Maryland School of Law Research Paper Series
Issues of the Research Paper Series are distributed by email
to all members of LSN. If you would like to receive email distributions
from the Legal Scholarship Network or Economics Research Network,
you may sign up by contacting your faculty
liaison.
For more information about submitting to this service,
go to the expanded section on
Submission to LSN's University of Maryland School of Law Research
Paper Series
To share works of scholarship with colleagues at other institutions,
faculty members are invited to submit research in progress as
well as papers already accepted for publication via the Research
Papers Series maintained by the law school, under the auspices
of the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN). Legal Scholarship Network,
part of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), facilitates
the distribution of scholarly information to legal scholars
and practitioners.
The University of Maryland School of Law Research Paper Series
is an infrequent email publication of abstracts to working papers
and articles accepted for publication. Articles may be submitted
for posting at any time. Although any faculty member may directly
post a paper to LSN, for the paper to be included in the law
school's Research Papers Series it should be posted by the library.
If you are interested in contributing a working paper or an
accepted paper to the next issue or would like to learn more
about LSN, please contact Pamela
Bluh.
Issues of the Research Paper Series are distributed by email
to all members of the Legal Scholarship Network. If you would
like to receive email distributions from the Legal Scholarship
Network or Economics Research Network, you may sign up by contacting
your faculty liaison or filling
out a form online at: http://hq.ssrn.com/Pub_Login.cfm?iacm=y.
Articles may also be accessed directly online at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results.cfm?form_name=journalbrowse&journal_id=364780.
Getting it Published:
Submission to Law Reviews
To facilitate delivery of manuscripts to law reviews, faculty
members may submit scholarly works to law reviews by two electronic
submission services, Berkeley Electronic Press' ExpressO and
SSRN's eSubmission. If you are ready to submit an article for
publication and need assistance identifying journals and electronic
publication options, the library can provide assistance with
targeting journals, selecting an appropriate service and uploading
papers. For assistance please contact your faculty
liaison or Pamela
Bluh.
For additional information on ExpressO and eSubmission,
visit the expanded section
on Submission to Law Reviews
Electronic submission services are available that make submitting
papers for publication easier. Using these services eliminates
photocopying, assembling, printing and mailing and provides
rapid acknowledgment and periodic status updates. To facilitate
delivery of manuscripts to law reviews, faculty members may
submit scholarly works to law reviews by two electronic submission
services, Berkeley Electronic Press' ExpressO and SSRN's eSubmission.
If you are ready to submit an article for publication and need
assistance identifying journals and electronic publication options,
the library can provide assistance with targeting journals,
selecting an appropriate service and uploading papers. For assistance
please contact your faculty liaison
or Pamela
Bluh.
ExpressO
The library supports submission of articles through ExpressO,
a service of Berkeley Electronic Press. BE Press has arrangements
with over
750 law reviews, including all the "top 100" publications.
A similar electronic submission service, eSubmission,
is offered by SSRN.
ExpressO allows authors to include a cover letter and a C.V. as part of the
submission; accepts documents in Word (or WordPerfect); delivers papers in real
time; allows authors to track submissions; has the capability to "expedite"
the submission process; requires no abstract or posting of a paper prior to
submission; and, delivers articles electronically, unless a law review will
not accept electronic submissions, in which case the article will be delivered
in print.
To submit a paper through ExpressO, a service of Berkeley Electronic
Press, follow these steps:
1. go to http://law.bepress.com/expresso/,
2. if you do not have an existing account, create one using your @law.umaryland.edu
email address,
3. select manuscript file format (both Word and WordPerfect are accepted),
4. create and verify the list of reviews to which your article should be submitted,
5. upload a cover letter (if desired) and the article, and
6. click finish.
eSubmission
SSRN's eSubmission is a free service that allows you to submit
a paper to law reviews that allow electronic submission. The
eSubmission service allows users to send customized messages
to each journal, and to submit to different journals at different
times. To use eSubmission, you must first include your paper
in the SSRN eLibrary.
Visit SSRN User Headquarters
online to begin the eSubmission process. To eSubmit a paper,
please log on to SSRN User HeadQuarters and then click "eSubmissions"
on the left menu.
eSubmission has agreements with fewer journals; allows only
a note to accompany the submission; accepts only PDF files;
papers are subject to review prior to delivery; has no tracking
mechanism; has no process for expediting submissions requires
an abstract to be posted to SSRN; and, handles only electronic
submissions.
Steps to submit a paper through eSubmission, a service of the
Social Science Research Network’s (SSRN) Legal Scholarship
Network (LSN), are as follows:
1. go to http://hq.ssrn.com,
2. if you do not have an account, create one using your @law.umaryland.edu
email address,
3. after logging in, click on eSubmissions,
4. choose the paper you wish to submit and click eSubmit, and
5. select the journals to which the paper should be submitted.
Faculty Publications Database
The Library maintains the publications portion of the faculty
database for the law school's website. This database includes
scholarly publications by faculty, and items display on both
the faculty member's web page, and, if recent, on the Recent
Faculty Scholarship page. Items are included from each month's
Publications list distributed by the Dean's Office, but if you
do not see your publication on the web, please send the information
to Susan McCarty
for inclusion.
Instruction
The library provides support for faculty during all stages
of preparation for a course.
Library Contacts*
*If you prefer, simply contact your Faculty
Liaison for any library-related issue and they will work
with the appropriate person or department to satisfy your request.
Gathering
Course Materials
Your faculty liaison is available
to help you locate resources, create a course research page,
and post your course syllabus on the course Blackboard page.
Your faculty liaison will work with you to locate appropriate
readings for specific topics. Once materials are selected your
liaison can obtain any materials not in the library or assist
with linking to articles or documents on your course Blackboard
page.
The Law Library handles copyright permissions and photocopying of course materials. This includes print course packs, materials that are distributed during the semester, and materials to be loaded on Blackboard pages. Course materials to be photocopied, regardless of the number of pages, must be submitted directly to the Law Library for copyright clearance prior to photocopying. Once the course materials are submitted to the library, a determination will be made as to whether copyright permission is required. In order to manage this process in a timely fashion, documents are to be submitted in sufficient time to have the materials checked, photocopied and available to students well before they will be needed. Submit course documents to copyrightclearance@law.umaryland.edu.
Once permission has been granted for the materials, all photocopies will be delivered to the Copy Center for duplication. Course packets are offered to students at no cost. Please coordinate with Jean Robinson in the Copy Center to work out distribution of course packets to students.
While linking to materials on Blackboard (see the section on Posting Course Materials on Blackboard) is the preferred method for distributing materials, the library will place course readings on reserve in the Reading Room. To place an item on reserve, please contact Pamela Bluh.
Posting Course Materials
on Blackboard
The faculty liaisons will provide
assistance to faculty members interested in adding research-related
content to their course web pages using Blackboard.
For answers to frequently asked questions about Blackboard,
see the guide to Using
Blackboard.
Research
Support for Courses
Course Liaisons
Librarians serve as course
liaisons to students in courses taught by their assigned faculty members.
The purpose of this program is to give students a contact for all library-related
questions that arise in the context of the course. Information about the librarian
liaison and an e-mail address are automatically included on each Blackboard
course page.
Course Research
Pages
Librarians create customized research pages for seminar courses
that meet the advanced writing requirement as well as for all
clinic and courses relating to trial practice and advocacy.
Each research page has been designed to serve as a starting
point for research in a particular area of law. Pages track
coverage of the particular courses and contain links to primary
and secondary sources that will help students begin their research
in the subject. A list
of current course research pages is available online.
Classroom Presentations
Librarians are available to speak to the classes about research
strategies for the various topics. Librarians make classroom
presentations at the the request of faculty. Presentations may
focus on the course research pages, resources for selecting
paper topics and other subjects as requested.
Exam Files
The library maintains a file of previous course exams to which faculty members
may choose to contribute. To view a list of exams you have on file, select your
name from the drop-down menu above or go to Exams
on File. To add an exam to your exam file, please send an electronic copy
of the exam to Jenny Rensler.
