Research in Scholarly Journals

Use the following methods to locate and read journal articles:

Use the Legal Trac index to locate the broadest array of publications. Note that because this is an index it has citation information, not complete articles.

Look in all of these:
Oxford Journals Online
Kluwer Law International
Cambridge Electronic Journals
Ethnic News Watch
Hein Online
Lexis
Westlaw
Because all of these are full-text databases, they only include articles that they are licensed to reproduce and they do not index articles unless they have the full text in their databases.

If you already know of a journal title, or want to browse for title names, look through the e-journals list (university library subscriptions) or PittCat (includes e-journals only available through the law library).

Two major international libraries list individual journal articles in their catalogs: The UN's Peace Palace Library and the European Commission's Library. Search by key words or author names in both of those catalogs.

Browse around the print journal collection on the fifth floor. The journals are shelved in alphabetical order by title.

If you are trying to find the full text of an article that you already know about, but haven't found it in the past five steps, order a copy of the article via interlibrary loan (ILL). You will need to complete an ILL request form at the Circulation Desk. If the library providing the photocopy of your article charges us a fee for the copies or postage, we will pass that charge along to you.

If any of these resources ask you for a user name and password, log-in to https://sremote.pitt.edu with your Pitt user name and password and look for the source in the University's database list. If you still can't get in, you will have to access it from a computer inside the law school building.