LexisNexis Academic
- Nexis Uni - All Content This link opens in a new windowSee UCF User Help Guide
Full text of news and legal sources, as well as company and industry data.
- Nexis Uni: Learn the ABCs of Legal Research—Level 2Online tutorial: Searching for a case using a citation -- Searching cases by party name -- Searching statutes using a citation -- Searching statutes by browsing the table of contents -- Shepards...what is it and its critical role in legal research -- Searching law reviews and law journals by title -- Using citation management tools
Start with legal encyclopedias
- Am.Jur.2d - American Jurisprudence, Second EditionCall Number: UCF ONLINE -- KF154.A42"American Jurisprudence, 2nd Edition, is an encyclopedic text of both procedural and substantive American law, state, federal, criminal, civil and procedural. Consisting of over 430 topic headings (titles), Am Jur 2d articles collect, examine, and summarize the broad principles of American law and, at the same time, provide direct leads to supporting cases, related annotations, forms, proofs, and trial techniques."
Start with legal encyclopedias for explanations about general principles of law and appropriate references to statutes and cases:
- C.J.S. - Corpus Juris SecundumCall Number: UCF Main Library General Collection -- KF 65 .L8
- West's Encyclopedia of American LawCall Number: UCF ONLINE -- KF 154 .W47 2005Provides information on more than 5,000 legal topics
- Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday LawCall Number: UCF ONLINE General Collection -- KF387.G27 2013"Containing approximately 200 articles, the Encyclopedia includes: brief descriptions of each issue's historical background, covering important statutes and cases; profiles of various U.S. laws and regulations; and details of how laws and regulations vary from state to state."
- Wex (Cornell University Law School)a collaboratively-created, public-access law dictionary and encyclopedia
Guides to Legal Research
- Nexis Uni: Learn the ABCs of Legal Research—Level 2Online tutorial: Searching for a case using a citation -- Searching cases by party name -- Searching statutes using a citation -- Searching statutes by browsing the table of contents -- Shepards...what is it and its critical role in legal research -- Searching law reviews and law journals by title -- Using citation management tools
Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the LawCall Number: UCF ONLINE -- KF 240 .E35 2003NOTE: Online access is limited to 1 simultaneous user
For guides to legal research, take a look at various books in the UCF Library's Reference Collection at REF KF240 and online.
See also annotations and treatises.
- Legal Information: How to Find It, How to Use ItCall Number: UCF Main Library General Collection -- KF 240 .O365 1999NOTE: Online access is limited to 1 simultaneous user.
ch4ck availability of print edition - How to Research a Legal Problem: A Guide for Non-Lawyers by"A free, informative seven-page online guide to help non-lawyers find legal rules that can resolve or prevent conflict. Avoiding jargon throughout, the booklet covers the basic steps in legal research. It also describes basic sources of legal information, giving examples of legal encyclopedias, treatises, articles, codes, reporters, and digests."
- State-specific Public Library Toolkits by"meant to help public librarians understand the process of legal research, effectively develop and use the information located within their libraries, utilize information located outside their libraries, with the end goal of helping the patron locate the legal information they need."