Library Services for Faculty

Introduction to Zief's Classroom & Research Support Services For Faculty

• Faculty Liaison Program: Zief Law Library has instituted a faculty liaison program to support faculty's research efforts. Each faculty member has a librarian assigned to him or her, who is available to help with research projects, online research training, research assistant training, current awareness services, classroom presentations, book purchase requests, inter-library loans, and more. If you're not sure which librarian is assigned to you, contact Lee Ryan at 415-422-2253.

• Research Classes & Presentations: Zief's reference librarians are happy to prepare in-class research presentations for your courses. The library has a wide range of materials that support students' upper-level research needs, and many of these resources are not covered in the first-year LRWA program. We will design our presentations and handouts to address your course's particular needs. Contact your faculty liaison or any of the reference librarians to arrange for a presentation.

• TWEN & Online Course Page Support: Support for your TWEN site is available at the library! If you would like to receive training on how to use TWEN, Westlaw's course management software, contact Amy Wright, Zief's Online Research Services Librarian, at ajwright at usfca.edu or at extension 5112. If you are interested in using another online course management tool, such as LexisNexis Web Courses or Blackboard, you may contact Amy Wright for further information.
  

Library Information & Services

• Contact Library Staff
• Research Assistance
• Library Hours
• New Acquisitions
• ZiefBrief, the law library's legal research and news blog

Online Research & Current Awareness

• Law School Databases
  A list of Zief databases available to USF Law faculty; remote access instructions are available.
  
• Quick Links:
  • Lexis & Westlaw (password required)
  • Westlaw and Lexis current awareness services: Westlaw's WestClip & Lexis's Alert
  • HeinOnline (USF community only)
    Electronic copies of law review articles in PDF format.
  • BNA United States Law Week (USF community only)
    
    
• Gleeson Library's Journal Finder
  Use the Journal Finder search box to determine if a particular periodical is available in print or online at USF libraries.
  
• Gleeson Library Databases
  Explore an A-Z list of the non-legal databases available to USF Law faculty through USF's Gleeson Library or review databases by academic subject.
  
  The following Gleeson Library databases may be particularly useful for law faculty research; click on each link to review database contents and to obtain information about date coverage:

• ABI/Inform
• JSTOR
• LexisNexis Congressional
• Medline
• New York Times (1857-2004)
• Project Muse
• ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
• PsycINFO
• Sociological Abstracts
  
  
• Other Library Catalogs
  A list of frequently-used online catalogs from other law schools and universities.
  
• Smart CILP
  Smart CILP is a weekly current awareness service that allows members of the law school community to receive customized e-mails of the latest articles published in the legal periodical literature. If you'd like to sign up for Smart CILP, contact a Zief librarian for the password.
• Law Professor Blogs
• Justia Blawg Search

Publishing Resources

To order faculty review copies of course texts, visit these publishers’ web pages:

• West/Thomson
• LexisNexis
• Aspen

Additional Publishing Resources (including online repositories of legal scholarship):

• Legal Scholarship Network (SSRN)
• Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress)
• Online Directory of Law Reviews and Scholarly Legal Periodicals (LexisNexis)
  Includes contact information for law reviews edited by students or faculty at ABA-accredited law schools and a list of special-focus law journals.
• List of Law Reviews and Journals By Topic (FindLaw)
• Most-Cited Law Reviews (Washington and Lee Law Library)
  Search interface permits users to determine which law reviews are cited most frequently.
• Robert M. Jarvis and Phyllis G. Coleman, Ranking Law Reviews by Author Prominence - Ten Years Later, 99 Law Library Journal 573 (2007).

Teaching Resources

• CALI (Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction) Free interactive tutorials on most law school course subjects, created by law professors and law libraries; also provides law school faculty with access to Classcaster (free blogging software) and to podcasting technology.
• Institute for Law School Teaching (Gonzaga Univ. School of Law)

Professional Resources

• American Association of Law Schools
  Search the AALS Directory of Law Teachers on Westlaw (Database: WLD-AALS)
• American Bar Association
• State Bar of California
• Martindale-Hubbell
• Legal Scholarship Blog (University of Pittsburgh School of Law & University of Washington School of Law). Features information about symposia, conferences, and workshops for legal scholars.
• Upcoming Law Review Symposia (Univ. of Northern Kentucky's Chase School of Law)