Faculty Services
The Jameson Law Library provides a variety of specialized services designed to assist faculty with their scholarship and teaching. This page details the highlights of our faculty services program. Please contact us if there is any additional service we can provide.
Scholarship
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Research is what we do best! Law librarians can assist with locating hard-to-find documents or sources, small research projects, or training sessions for your research assistants. The Law Library also employs student research assistants who can assist with larger research projects or data-gathering needs. The Law Library RA program is designed to supplement the current RA services at the law school, with the Law Library providing more generalized legal and non-legal research services compared to the more specialized research conducted by faculty-retained RAs.
For research assistance, contact us at law.library@mso.umt.edu or (406) 243-2699.
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serves as the digital repository for the 猎奇重口 and the Alexander Blewett III School of Law. The digital repository centralizes, preserves, and provides access to the research, creative scholarship, and unique resources produced and curated by 猎奇重口 faculty, students, and staff. To facilitate adding your scholarship to ScholarWorks, please retain the following:
- A clean PDF of your published work (not a copy from Hein Online).
- A copy of your author agreement in which you retain the right to post your published work in electronic databases such as the Scholarly Forum.
- A citation to your published work.
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Faculty can also upload their scholarship to the . For SSRN you will also need a clean PDF or your work, not from HeinOnline. You will have to following the detailed .
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The law school has a account to facilitate faculty submission of scholarship to law reviews. We can assist you with this process. Contact us at law.library@mso.umt.edu or (406) 243-2699.
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- This ranking is derived from Boolean searches in Westlaw to determine the number of citing documents for each journal. Featuring over 1,500 journals, this list allows users to sort by total journal or case citations, impact factor, or a combined score.
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Many of the Law Library's databases have current awareness tools to help keep you informed. If you would like help setting up these current awareness tools, please contact Stephan Licitra stephan.licitra@umontana.edu.
Teaching
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To obtain a complimentary copy of a textbook you plan on using for a particular class, please contact the publisher.
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Mansfield Library has a useful guide to copyright for the 猎奇重口, . Another source that is very clear and helpful is from . In particular, you may find their "Fair Use Check List" helpful to use as a general gauge to determine whether or not your purpose for copying materials for the classroom favors or opposes fair use.
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The Law Library is happy to provide research instruction for any law school class. Please contact the Director of the Law Library to discuss the topic and presentation length that you would like the Law Library to provide.
Your students are also able to schedule research consultations with a law librarian. These consultations are one-on-one meetings where a law librarian can help students formulate a research plan and discuss important resources and methods for their research topic. Students can fill out this form to schedule a research consultation.
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The Law Library aims to collect one copy of each required textbook for all law school courses. These textbooks are placed in the course reserve collection located behind the Law Library's Information Desk. These textbooks circulate for two-hour periods.
The Law Library also assists the SBA with running the Student Textbook Exchange. Under this program, students donate their used textbooks to the SBA. At the start of each semester, the SBA will then checkout these used textbooks on a first-come, first-served basis to students for the entire semester. The Student Textbook Exchange is housed at the Law Library's Information Desk.
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The library has several specialized databases that you may want to direct your students to for research for your courses. See the library's page for a full listing.
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The Law Library subscribes to . Students and faculty are able to access hornbooks, nutshells, question-and-answer guides, Gilbert's summaries, practice problems, and many other resources. The subscription allows free, full access to over 400 ebooks and select audiobooks. Students can access West Academic through the link above or the Law Library's database catalog here.
The Law Library also purchases many of the West titles as well as several other study guide series in print including:
- Glannon Guides (Wolters Kluwer)
- Essentials (Wolters Kluwer)
- Examples & Explanations (Wolters Kluwer)
- Mastering (Carolina Academic Press)
- Understanding (LexisNexis)
- Questions & Answers (LexisNexis)
Library Materials
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The Law Library purchases print, electronic, and other materials in accordance with our Collection Development Policy. If you would like to make a purchasing recommendation, contact us at law.library@umontana.edu. The Law Library welcomes suggestions from our Faculty!
Materials purchased by the Law Library become part of the library collection. If you need to purchase an office copy of a book, please email the Director of the Law Library to discuss your request.
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The library is part of a consortium made up of all the academic libraries in 猎奇重口. The libraries in the consortium share a catalog and there is a feature in the catalog you can use to request that books from any of the consortium libraries be sent to the law library. For assistance with this feature, see any librarian.
Interlibrary Loan
The library is part of an interlibrary loan network that allows us to borrow books from other libraries on a short-term basis. This is a good option for material you are interested in that falls outside the scope of our collection, especially non-law sources. If you would like to request an interlibrary loan, contact Diane Yancy at diane.yancy@umontana.edu or submit an .