News & Events - Fall 2004

Replacement of Law Library Photocopiers 10/04/04
New Databases
Subscribe to Email Alerts
Library Maps
Collections & Services Post-Renovation

New Databases

BNA Online

The library has begun subscribing to the complete set of BNA (Bureau of National Affairs) Online Databases.  BNA, long known for its print "looseleaf services", which provide the reader with current statutes, regulations, case law and commentary bundled together by subject,  has now made these services available online in the following subject areas:

• antitrust

• banking

• bankruptcy

• corporate

• criminal

• employee benefits

• employment & labor

• environment & safety

• ethics

• family law

• health care

• homeland security

• intellectual property

• international

• international tax

• litigation

• product liability

• securities & corporate responsibility

• tax

• trade & commerce

Links to BNA Online can be found on the Indexes & Databases page of the Law Library website, or by doing a title search in JULIUS for "BNA Online" for for the individual BNA titles.
     
BNA Email Alerts

The Law Library's subscription to BNA Online also includes about 100 different email  alerts that law students and  faculty can have sent to their nyu.edu email address, including the popular US Law Week. Click to subscribe

LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection

Federal legislative history has entered the PDF age. By the end of 2005, the LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection  will contain fully-searchable PDFs of

• American State Papers, 1789-1838

• Serial Set, 1817-1969

Currently, the Digital Collection already covers 1817-1876 (15th-44th Congresses.) These invaluable records include: 

•  Senate and House reports and documents, including executive and miscellaneous document

•  reports commissioned by Congress

•  House and Senate Journals

•  a limited number of hearings  

•  executive agency reports submitted to Congress

•  color maps and illustration
  
  Search options include:

• full text

• subject

• Statutes at Large citations, bill numbers, Public Law numbers

• date

• Congress

• title

• author, committee, agency, witness, petitioner, etc.

• publication number, e.g., S.rp. 3 (68-1)

 For congressional publications after 1969 and for hearings and prints, the library has the comprehensive CIS microfiche collection, which is accessible through LexisNexis Congressional . For congressional debates consult the Congressional Record. For more congressional materials online, see the library's Federal Resources page. 

Oxford Scholarship Online

Contains searchable full texts of over 700 books published by Oxford University Press, in the areas of economics and finance, philosophy, political science and religion, together with specially-commissioned book and chapter abstracts and keywords. At least 200 new books will be added each year.

Other Databases

• Access World News
  Full-text articles from the electronic editions of more than 700 world newspapers.

• Digital Library of German Classics
  Covers the works of major authors spanning eleven centuries and includes historical, philosophical, theological, political and art history texts.

• Early American Newspapers
  Cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, based largely on Clarence Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers,1690-1820."

• Historical Chicago Daily Tribune
  Fulltext of every page from 1872-1963.

• Past Masters
  The history of political thought and theory, classics, and philosophy in full-text format. It includes such resources as the complete works of Plato and Thomas Aquinas, and political theory from Machiavelli to Mill.

• Public PAIR (Patent Application Information Retrieval)

Library Maps

Clicking the Library Map link on our home page will take you to our new library maps.  From the main map page you can select any library floor, collection (i.e. federal materials, EU) or Julius location (i.e. Reserve, bound periodicals).

Paper copies are available at the Reference and Circulation Desks.

The maps are also linked to the "location" fields in JULIUS. When you locate a book in JULIUS, you will see that the book's location(s) in the library is now a hotlink. Clicking the link will access a map of an entire library level.  The specific location on that level, where you will find the book by its call number, will be in color, and the other locations on that level, if any, will be in grey. 

Collections & Services Post-Renovation

Like the rest of Vanderbilt Hall, the Law Library has undergone a major facelift this summer.  The result is a breathtaking new Main Reading Room and a library which not only looks great, but is also more functional.     A few of the major changes include:

•  Service Points: Circulation, Reserve, & Reference functions are now located in the Main Reading Room

• Collection Moves: Reference and Reserve collections will be located in Main Reading Room; New York Collection and Unbound Journals will be located in the former Open Reserve Room (B2 South)

Please bear with us as we adjust to our new surroundings and work out all of the annoying little kinks which drive all of us crazy.