Tips for Finding Journal Articles
This tab will help you locate law review, law journal, bar journal, and non-law journal articles. Databases are listed roughly in the order of importance for cite checking.
Locating Law Journals and Law Reviews
- HeinOnline - Law Review and Law Journal LibraryHeinOnline contains most law reviews and law journals in PDF format (page image format) beginning with the very first volume. This should be your first stop when looking for law review articles.
- HeinOnline - Bar Journal LibraryHeinOnline contains the full-text of hundreds of bar association journals starting with the first volume of most in PDF page image format.
- JSTORJSTOR is a multi-disciplinary database of law journals in PDF page image format. This should be your first stop for non-law journal articles.
- OU Libraries CatalogSearches the combined catalog of all OU Libraries to locate books, journals, and databases available on campus.
- Google ScholarUse Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Many law reviews make PDF copies of their articles available on the web, and this database can be used to locate those.
TIP: Search for the title of the article, not the title of the journal for best results.
TIP: Be sure to change the search option to "Legal Publications".