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Research Assistance

Reference Librarians

Our Librarians are available to help you locate and use our legal resources.

304-293-3500
wvulawlibrary@mail.wvu.edu

DISCLAIMER

No information provided to you will be provided as legal advice nor will our assistance to you establish an attorney/client relationship. We cannot provide any legal advice, interpret legal materials, or suggest a solution to any legal matter that you may have. We can only assist you by helping you locate the materials you request and suggest that you contact an attorney to assist you in your legal matters.

Research Assistants

A mandatory training session for Research Assistants is provided by the Librarians at the start of each semester. Topics covered include doctrinal and scholarly legal research, cross- and interdisciplinary legal research, and resource borrowing methods.

Additionally, Research Assistants may schedule specialized, one-on-one training sessions with the Librarians.

Guest Lectures

The Public Services Law Librarians, upon request, may provide a guest lecture service for faculty members teaching research-intensive courses. Due to other teaching and research commitments, guest lectures necessarily are limited in number each semester, and the strong preference is for at least one month’s notice for each guest lecture engagement.

Current Awareness

The Library provides an array of current awareness services to faculty members:

  • Current Awareness at WVU College of Law 

    This guide provides publication information and access options for current awareness sources available from the Law Library and the WVU Libraries.

    • Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) 
      An email service containing the weekly CILP edition is available to all interested faculty members. More than 2,500 professors and lawyers receive CILP each week, which provides timely topical access to over 570 legal publications, four to six weeks before the publications appear in other commercial indexes.
      • Westlaw, Lexis Advance, Bloomberg Law, & HeinOnline 
        The Library strives to keep faculty members abreast of all substantive updates and changes to the premier legal research databases. Current awareness efforts are made through emails, Librarian and vendor trainings held at faculty colloquiums, and through one-on-one sessions with interested faculty members.
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