Research Tutorials
Does library research leave you stumped? Check out these short online tutorials for help. All Goodson Law Library tutorials were created in spring 2009 by Jane Bahnson, Reference Services intern.
Locating & Accessing Articles
- Using the Legal Databases & Links Page (Goodson Law Library): Selecting an appropriate source to begin your research from the library's Legal Databases & Links matrix.
- Searching the Online Index to Legal Periodicals (Goodson Law Library): Tips and tricks for locating articles on a particular topic in the Index to Legal Periodicals.
- Finding Journal Articles (Goodson Law Library): 2-minute demonstration of how to locate the full text of legal journals when you have only a citation.
- How to Use "GetIt@Duke" (Duke University Libraries): A similar guide to retrieving the full text of articles in databases which provide only citations.
U.S. Federal Legal Research
- Searching the Congressional Record using HeinOnline (Goodson Law Library)
- Congresearch: Congressional Research Tutorials (UC Berkeley Library)
- Statutory and Legislative Research Series (Harvard Law School Library)
- The Federal Register: What It Is and How to Use It (U.S. National Archives & Records Administration)
- Searching the Code of Federal Regulations Using HeinOnline (Goodson Law Library)
Foreign, Comparative & International Legal Research
- International Legal Research Tutorial (Duke University School of Law/UC Berkeley School of Law): An interactive approach to learning international law research methods.

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