Have you ever found something on the Web that you knew was available through the Libraries, but it was too much of a pain to log into the Libraries site and find it? Now we have a bookmarklet that you can add to your browser button bar so that you can log in via the Libraries and get immediate access (most of the time…) find out more about our new proxy bookmarklet. And it works with tablets too...
Note: after you log in, if you don't get access, just click the proxy bookmarklet again and you will (if your browser is idle for too long you may need to log in again). Also provides information on new library service LibKey Nomad which can also be used to provide instant access to PDFs available though the WSU Libraries. If you use the campus VPN you won't need this, or if you are on a WSU campus network (not the residential hall networks, however, I think)
Understanding Legal Citation (for statutes, legal codes, and more)
Any law, court case, rule or regulation has a legal citation. Legal citations has a specific format and it is different from the citation format used in other academic disciplines. To do legal research you need to be able to understand a legal citation. This is how to read a legal citation:
78 is the volume number; Stat is the abbreviation for United States Statutes at Large, the publication; and 241 is the page number.
This format - volume, abbreviation for the publication, and page number - remains basically the same for all legal materials (including state law reporters) and it is used to cite law review articles as well as other legal sources.
The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking [online] by Legal Research: A Guide to Secondary Resources (Law Library of Congress) ; see also this guide from Harvard Law School Library Note: Both links may include publications that are not available at the WSU Libraries (but may be available at the U of I Law Library)
Law Reviews. Available via Nexis Uni. WSU Only Access. Nexis Uni provides legal codes, court opinions, full-text law reviews and legal periodicals with extensive search options. Dates of coverage vary by title.
Law Review Commons. Brings together a growing collection of law reviews and legal journals in an easily browsable and searchable format. It contains both current issues and archival content spanning over 100 years. Currently provides over 300 open-access law reviews.
ABA Legal Technology Resource Center. Search more than 400 online full-text law review and journals and related sources, including Congressional Research Service Reports. Coverage varies.
Note that think tanks and research institutes may have a (or multiple) specific policy perspective (i.e. centrist, liberal, conservative, feminist, libertarian, etc).
About think tanks - On Think Tanks
Google/Bing syntax site:.org human trafficking (or "human trafficking", or just trafficking, or "sex trafficking" or labor trafficking, etc.)
(You can also do site:wa.gov: or site:.gov -- but they will give you governmental results ;-)
law review trafficking site:.edu - example for searching academic sites, but you have to be careful of what you find because you may get student personal pages, etc.
Note that these are largely U.S.-based because we are using default US web syntax. You can search the French, or Australian, or Malaysian or most any other country's instance of "the Web" by using country codes.
