Note Preemption Checking

Kincaid C. Brown

Head of Electronic & Systems Services
University of Michigan Law Library

What We Are Covering

• Preemption by other authors
• Preemption by law
• Information on using the Library

Preemption by Other Authors

Search for already published or in progress works on your topic in

• legal periodicals
• other legal sources
• non-legal periodicals

Legal Periodicals

Full-text databases

• Lexis & Westlaw (Law Review and Legal News databases)
• Note: Coverage usually not complete (generally 1980s-1990s start date), sometimes coverage of a title is partial or abstracts
• HeinOnline
• Coverage will often go back to volume 1 but new issues added more slowly, lesser search function compared to L/WL, fewer titles than L/WL

Legal Periodicals II

Indices

• LegalTrac: 1980-; keyword or subject guide searches
• Index to Legal Periodicals (FirstSearch): 1981-; keyword and/or descriptor search
• ILP & ILP Retro (Wilson): 1908-; keyword and/or subject searches
• Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals: 1985-; keyword and/or descriptor searches

Other Legal Sources

Books & Book Chapters

• Law Library Catalog: search for books by title, subject, keyword, etc.; search for book chapters using keyword search (can limit to contents field)
• WorldCat: search for books by title, subject, keyword, etc.; search for book chapters using keyword search

Other Legal Sources II

Current Awareness and Not Yet Published

• Current Index to Legal Periodicals: available in the Reference Collection (call number: K 33 .C875x): subject access and tables of contents for recent issues of 500+ legal journals
• SSRN: pre and post publication law and non-law journal articles, working paper series, research and discussion papers
• UM has a site license so to view some papers you need to subscribe to join the Law School Network as a UM affiliate
• ResearchNow: institutional repositories and working paper series
• includes bepress Legal Repository: collection of more than 30 law school working paper series

Multi-Discipline Resources

• JSTOR: full-text social science, humanities, and science journals
• Proquest: full-text news, popular press, and scholarly periodicals
• Web of Science: keyword and cited reference searching
• WOS includes Social Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, and Conference Proceedings Citation Indexes

General Social Science Resources

• Social Sciences Abstracts: indexes over 400 journals in sociology, political science, anthropology, economics and other disciplines, 1983-; keyword and/or descriptor search
• Criminal Justice Absracts: 1968-; keyword and/or descriptor search
• Sociological Abstracts: indexes 1700 international and US journals; keyword and/or descriptor search

Gender Studies Resources

• GenderWatch: full-text of 140 international periodicals covering women and gender issues, 1974-
• Contemporary Women's Issues: full-text articles from popular and alternative press, 1992- (varies by publication)
• LGBT Life: indexes 600 popular and scholarly publications addressing LGBT issues, 1997-; selected publications in full-text

Federal non-legal Gov't Docs.

• GPOAccess: federal US government portal to documents and publications
• Census: tables and data from census surveys
• EEOC: reports and information on equal employment issues
• University Library Government Document Office on 2d Floor North of Hatcher Library

Statistics

• FedStats: gateway to statistical information from US federal government agencies
• LexisNexis Statistical: Indexes and abstracts federal statistical publications since 1974, business and state government publications since 1980, and international agency publications since 1983.
• BJS Publications: compilation of links to full-text BJS publications

Other Resources

• Health Sciences: PubMed - indexes 1400 medicial periodicals, 1950-
• Business: ABI/INFORM - over 1800 full-text business and management journals, another 500 titles indexed and/or abstracted, 1923-
• Psychology: PsycINFO - indexes over 2100 journals in 35 language in the field of psychology (also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, sociology, education, business and law, 1887-

Preemption by Law - News Sources

• Lexis & Westlaw news libraries
• RSS Feeds / Blogs, e.g.:
• OpenCongress
• SCOTUSBlog
• Subject specific blogs like Feminist Law Professors

Preemption by Law - Federal Law

• Lexis & Westlaw
• Thomas: Congressional activity
• Federal Register via GPOAccess
• US Supreme Court
• US Law Week: Smith location; call number: KF 175 .U58x

Preemption by Law - State Law

• Lexis & Westlaw
• State legislature and high court sites
• State newspapers and other news sources

International Law Sources - UN

• UN Official Documents
• Access UN: index to UN Documents microfiche set
• International Court of Justice
• Office for the High Commissioner of Human Rights: includes CEDAW

Other International Law Sources

• EISIL (Electronice Information System for International Law
• International Courts & Tribunals Library

Foreign Law Sources

• Foreign Law Guide: description of forign legal systems and informaiton about resources
• World Legal Information Institute: coverage varies by jurisdiction
• PARLINE: information about and links to national legislatures
• Government Gazettes Online
• Law Library Electronic Resources by Country

Additional Electronic Resources

Three e-resource lists on campus

• Law Library: http://umil.iii.com/search/y
• University Library: http://searchtools.lib.umich.edu/
• Kresge Business Library: http://www.bus.umich.edu/kresgelibrary/Collections/A-ZListing/, note that some Kresge resources are only available in the B-School buildings

Three Campus Catalogs

• Law Library: http://umil.iii.com/
• University Library (Mirlyn): http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/
• Kresge Business Library: http://lib.bus.umich.edu/search.html

Finding E-Journals

• Catalogs
• Law Library E-Journal List: http://ck9ys4qn5a.search.serialssolutions.com/
• Find an Article: use citation information to search for articles
• MGetIt and ArticleLinker buttons in electronic indices

Law Library Information

• Use the Law Library ILL service (the University Library will not fulfill Law student ILL requests). Submit and monitor ILL requests using the Law Library ILL portal.
• We are still in the process of moving around the books. See the maps at the Reference Desk and the Law Library Website Get Books section for more information.
• Our holdings are in the process of being loaded into WorldCat. Currently all Library holdings up to April 2009 have been loaded.

For additional assistance

• Reference Desk assistance available 9 a.m. to midnight 7 days a week
• Professional librarians also available for individual appointments
• Ask a Law Librarian email service. Information at http://www.law.umich.edu/library/students/ask/Pages/default.aspx.

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